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    Spotlight | France, Lebanon
    Port of Beirut: new revelations about suspect contract that led to blast

    View of the port of Beirut on 10 January 2024 showing damage from the 2020 explosion.
    View of the port of Beirut on 10 January 2024 showing damage from the 2020 explosion. © Michael Kappeler/DPA/Picture-Alliance/Newscom/MaxPPP

    Magistrates in France and Lebanon are probing the circumstances leading up to the ammonium nitrate that caused the devastating 4 August, 2020 explosion being unloaded in the port of Beirut. New documents concerning a French-Lebanese consultant and an opaque contract provide fresh insights into the blast's origins.

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    United Kingdom
    UK's new defence plan sets challenge of consolidating all military intel capabilities

    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the London Defence Conference, 8 May 2025.
    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the London Defence Conference, 8 May 2025. © Henry Nicholls/Pool via Reuters

    UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's strategic defence review recommends bringing the defence ministry's intelligence capabilities under one roof. This could be both a boon and a bane for the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee as it tries to carve out a bigger role for itself.

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    Russia, Ukraine
    Swarmer, the invisible brain behind the SBU's spectacular drone strikes inside Russia

    Image taken from a video published by Ukraine of Operation Spider's Web, launched against Russia on 1 June 2025.
    Image taken from a video published by Ukraine of Operation Spider's Web, launched against Russia on 1 June 2025. © Ministry of Defence of Ukraine/UPI/MaxPPP

    Ukraine carried out an unprecedented operation on 1 June on Russian territory, using suicide drones to destroy or damage more than forty bombers. Behind this success is the Ukrainian start-up Swarmer, which provides the tech that enables these drones to be controlled autonomously.

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    United States
    Intelligence from space: US Indo-Pacific cooperation in jeopardy despite ambitious announcements

    US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore on 31 May, 2025.
    US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore on 31 May, 2025. © Edgar Su/Reuters

    The Trump administration claims that it is making military and intelligence cooperation in the Indo-Pacific a priority. But budget cuts in the US civil space sector will have a knock-on effect on some of the Pentagon's key cooperation initiatives in the region.

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