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Spotlight | Ukraine
Colombians blacklisted from Ukrainian Legion over espionage concerns

Prospective soldiers from Colombia have been almost wholly excluded from Kyiv's recruiting efforts due to fears over connections with Russian intelligence.

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Government Intelligence

Syria
Hossam Louka active across all fronts, from Syrian countryside to Riyadh and Moscow

Now Bashar al-Assad's top spymaster, Hossam Louka has begun to quietly take the lead on Syria's normalisation processes, both on the international scene and at a local level.

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International Dealmaking

Argentina, China
Beijing goes all-out to promote Norinco arms deals in Buenos Aires

Chinese ambassador to Argentina, Zou Xiaoli (L), and Argentina's economy minister, Sergio Massa, on April 26, 2023 in Buenos Aires.© Handout / Argentina's Economy Ministry / AFP

As China and the US battle with each other on the Argentinian market, Beijing has opted for a dual diplomatic and commercial drive to ensure Norinco wins an order from Argentina for armoured vehicles. More generally, all China's big defence groups could soon set up production sites in Argentina to supply the whole of Latin America.

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Corporate Intelligence

United States
Former conservative undercover operative Tarah Price re-emerges in the far-right ecosphere

Price disappeared from public view after her role in an aborted 2018 sting against National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster was exposed. Now she works for Steven Crowder, a leading media figure in MAGA World. Price is a relentless defender of her currently embattled boss, and has built a growing following of her own.

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Switzerland
Geneva plays host to more closed-door Arctic security talks

The director of the Geneva Center for Security Policy, Thomas Greminger, in March 2022.© Mustafa Ciftci / ANADOLU AGENCY / Anadolu Agency via AFP

Experts and retired military officers from several Arctic nations have quietly convened again at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, whose director Thomas Greminger is pushing to reopen communication channels between Russia and the West.

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Surveillance & Interception

United States
DARPA looks for vulnerabilities in cyber-physical systems

The US Department of Defense's latest obsession, cyber-physical systems, contain physical components and cyber elements whose vulnerabilities could impact the physical world. Under its Faithful Integrated Reverse-Engineering and Exploitation programme, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for tools able to secure those types of systems.

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