Little by little the wide gap in American and European positions on the frequencies to be used by Europe’s future Galileo satellite navigation system appears to be narrowing. Contrary to media reports, and particularly in Germany, a meeting held between [.
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At the end of January, the Joint Galileo Undertaking will pre-qualify two or three consortia among the four which submitted [...]
A sharp decline in armaments deals between France and Saudi Araabia is forcing SOFRESA, a private firm that served as go-between for the French government, to radically overhaul its operations.
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U.S. oil companies haven't dropped the idea of breaking into the Russian market. The planned merger between Yukos and Sibneft would have benefited Chevron but now the merger is off it could be Exxon's turn to win big.
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The Alcatel group's recent sale of the high tech French firm SAFT to the British private equity fund manager Doughty Hanson for 390 million euros ($468 million) went largely unnoticed.
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Congress has called on the CIA director to present it [...]
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At least 700 prominent political, business, military and intelligence figures crammed into the auditorium of France's Military Institute in Paris on Dec. 1 to attend a seminar on business intelligence
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Strong U.S. pressure on Saudi Arabia to crack down on the funding of terrorism through the zakat system (payments to welfare organizations) is forcing Riyadh to take strong measures.
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In his report on the France's defense budget for 2004, senator Jean Faure laid out the French armament board DGA's research guidelines for next year.
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Yemen's president, general Ali Abdallah Saleh, and his son, colonel Ahmed Saleh, have become strong allies of the U.S. in the fight against Islamic terrorist movements.
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Already cancelled on several occasions, a visit that French interior [...]
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Even though the official site of Ireland's presidency of the [...]
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Speaking at a seminar in the French Senate on ?warfare [...]
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Visiting Washington last week, King Abdallah 2 of Jordan offered [...]
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The controversy over Washington's demand that European airlines provide data on their passengers flying to the U.S. (IOL 465) has tended to mask other equally insistent demands.
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The U.S. firms Decision Strategies (DS) and Vance International (VI) have opened an office in Baghdad under the name DS [...]
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The U.S. group Kroll is continuing to build up its operations in all areas linked to security, new technology and [...]
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Pierre Bonnard and Stephane Ravion, two young businessmen who belong to the Chambre de Commerce Francaise pour les Pays du [...]
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The pooling of sources and fusion of databases seems to remain a leading priority of the U.S. intelligence community. In [...]
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In recent months, China's security services have been pulling out all the stops to protect their intelligence community's computer networks [...]
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Weakened by illness, president Hosni Mubarak is having a lot of trouble imposing his son Gamal as his successor in [...]
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Returning to Baghdad last month from Washington where George W. [...]
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After a long career as a businessman, Alain Julliet was [...]
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At first glance, nothing would seem to single out a [...]
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A former political adviser to the US Central Command, ex-head [...]
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No less than 60 high level experts will speak at [...]
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The Center for Reconstruction & Development, which has specialized in [...]
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In a sign of the growing interest in the Gulf [...]
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The controversy over Moslem women wearing the veil at school [...]
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and South Korea's Financial [...]
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A trial that will unfold this week in Los Angeles [...]
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