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    Spotlight | UAE
    Ali al-Shamsi, the Emirati spymaster facing US ire

    The Secretary General of the Supreme National Security Council of the United Arab Emirates, Ali al-Shamsi, on 12 September 2024 in Saint Petersburg.
    The Secretary General of the Supreme National Security Council of the United Arab Emirates, Ali al-Shamsi, on 12 September 2024 in Saint Petersburg. © Kristina Kormilitsyna/Sputnik/Kremlin/Reuters

    At the head of Abu Dhabi's intelligence service for the last two years, Ali al-Shamsi finds himself managing an unprecedented crisis for the tiny emirate. His major security ally in Washington is waging a war of influence that he had not foreseen.

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    China, Myanmar
    Chinese spies and military moving into Myanmar's Rakhine State

    Rohingya refugees gather between the Bangladeshi and Burmese borders on 24 August 2018.
    Rohingya refugees gather between the Bangladeshi and Burmese borders on 24 August 2018. © Nyein Chan Naing/Myanmar Central Committee for Counter Terrorism/EPA-EFE/MaxPPP

    Despite Myanmar's ongoing civil war, Rohingya refugees are starting to return to Rakhine State from crowded camps in Bangladesh. China's Ministry of State Security and the People's Liberation Army appear to be orchestrating the final stage of a plan to secure the CCP's vital Indian Ocean interests.

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    France, Russia
    From Stresa to Vienna, a Russian military intelligence spy's France mission revealed

    The GRU offensive in Europe (1/2).
    The GRU offensive in Europe (1/2). © J. Cassard/Le Parisien/MaxPPP//KeithBinns/iStock - Montage Bénédicte Gouttebroze/Indigo Publications

    GRU's campaign in Europe (1/2). Russia's feared GRU military intelligence, headed by Igor Kostyukov and tasked with spying on Western Europe, was caught red-handed trying to recruit a French soldier stationed at a NATO base in Italy.

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    France
    LVMH: intelligence-gathering on French investigative news outlet revealed

    Frédéric and Bernard Arnault, Alexandre Benalla, Alexandre Arnault and Jean-Jacques Guiony, Bernard Arnault.
    Frédéric and Bernard Arnault, Alexandre Benalla, Alexandre Arnault and Jean-Jacques Guiony, Bernard Arnault. © Photomontage Indigo Publications/Marine Le Bris - Stefano Rellandini/AFP//Christophe Archambault/AFP//Vincent Isore/IP3 Press/MaxPPP

    A covert request to dig into La Lettre and its luxury sector correspondent has circulated among Paris private eyes, reviving memories of a past LVMH intelligence scandal and exposing bitter infighting at the heart of the world's biggest luxury group.

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