British prime minister Rishi Sunak's decision to call an election on 4 July based on political rather than national safety considerations, leaves little time for the intelligence services to prepare for this high risk ballot.
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Tokyo is keener than ever to join the US-led alliance in the Indo-Pacific and has been placing intelligence envoys in Australia.
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With the Biden administration finalising a security and civil nuclear assistance pact with Riyadh, and a possible side-deal to lift its ban on offensive weapons, the US arms industry is readying itself for a new wave of weapons contracts, albeit not necessarily for US assembly lines
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UK governance consultancy FMAP, led by Lord Francis Maude and Baroness Simone Finn, has been building on its connections with financial centres in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
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Drone experts, diplomats and resellers from Russia and Ukraine jostled for position at the hi-tech stands of the biggest Chinese drone show in Shenzhen.
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Various defence ministry departments are pulling out all the stops to recruit the brightest open-source intelligence specialists.
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