Negotiations conducted in deep secrecy and against a backdrop of the physical decline of the House of Saud’s elders have given rise to radical changes among the clans that wield power in Saudi Arabia. In traveling to Geneva for medical [.
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A senior FBI official, Michael Donner, will take over as operational head of counter-espionage for the entire U.S. intelligence community [...]
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The new chairman of the French Parliament’s defense and armed forces committee, Guy Tessier, tends to adopt a discreet profile [...]
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The British defense ministry believes that NATO has been indirectly responsible for the success of the peace-keeping mission in Afghanistan [...]
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The Polish intelligence community is being put seriously through the wringer following Parliament’s adoption of a bill by the post-communist [...]
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In late June officials at the interior ministry tipped Alain Gehin as future head of the French domestic intelligence agency [...]
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An ultimate seal of approval for the U.S. concept of information dominance will shortly come when the U.S. space command - the unit that deploys the concept operationally - merges with the Pentagon's strategic command.
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Did Kazakhstan president Nurusultan Nazarbayev resort to violence to preserve his country's reputation as a ?new Kuwait? with the G8 countries?
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A French organization involved in trade in the Middle East is fighting tooth-and-nail to defend its de facto monopoly. The situation is getting out of hand and worrying the Quai d'Orsay.
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In less than a month, the stalemate on the share-out of the Caspian Sea's oil and an agreement on future pipelines have altered the whole power picture in Central Asia.
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Egyptian intelligence agencies headed by general Omar Sulyman have tracked [...]
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French armaments engineers are working on a new program for communications between man and machine that INRIA has kicked off. The program aims to discover new synergy between weapons systems and the people using them.
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After years of R&D, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute is completing a new version of the A5 algorithm which will equip GSM networks and could protect future UMTS-standard telephones.
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A one-time consultant for McKinsey & Co, Bill Drayton has transformed himself into a stalwart champion of work-place ethics. Indeed, [...]
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Retired general Loup Francard is working to bolster his position as an expert in strategic intelligence for France’s corporate world. [...]
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London and Washington have agreed to pool their efforts on [...]
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Two British researchers have succeeded in miniaturizing a mobile telephone [...]
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A joint venture between ThalesRaytheonSystems and the French firm CS [...]
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A small company based in St. Malo in France and [...]
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Nothing has come along in the past 55 years to dent the trusty relationship between the U.S. defense department and [...]
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In the midst of the heated debate over transparency and the reliability of financial information, the Paris stock market watchdog, [...]
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The British Foreign Office has just signed a contract with one of the leading American firms operating on the London [...]
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The World Trade Organization has become the planet’s leading production center for soft laws; in other words, for standards designed [...]
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If Russia's oil giants want to gain a strong foothold in the West and rival the Gulf as supplier of petroleum products they will need to get their hands on Western infrastructure.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell's staff believes that Sept. 11 has made it necessary to change the way the U.S. is viewed abroad. Its leading lobbyist is targeting the Arabic-language media.
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Did the rivalry between the Bronfman family and Jean-Marie Messier get out of hand? The DST in Paris is looking into that possibility, but has so far drawn a blank.
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According to investigative journalists from the BBC, the go-between in [...]
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A number of executives who worked with Jean-Marie Messier before [...]
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By taking over Enron’s 24.5% stake in the Dolphin Energy [...]
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The association Anti-Delinquances Financieres (ADEFI) is holding a seminar in [...]
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Officials involved in the biggest unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) projects [...]
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