The Pentagon has pledged an additional $230m in military aid to Beirut, stepping up US support for the Lebanese military and intelligence services in their ambitions to disarm Hezbollah. Cooperation is centred on a team of consultants funded by the US Department of Defense, as well as the British and Canadian governments.
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Corporate Intel Intelligence Online has learned that just as the Russian ghost fleet ship Pushpa was being boarded by French forces off Saint-Nazaire last month, a few hundred miles away, French and Belgian services were involved in an EU border agency simulation exercise whose plot included a similar storyline.
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Agencies Backed by the Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia's Humain is set to become the country's new AI flagship. However, faced with a shortage of talent, who are often already working for other firms in the country, it's having to turn to Western expertise.
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Corporate Intel The French firm Carbon 01 is set to launch a Franco-Lithuanian long-range drone whose development was based on feedback from the Ukrainian front. Designed for strike, intelligence and electronic warfare missions, it will go into production in the coming days.
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Cybersecurity The architects of the air defence initiative were received at the presidential palace in Paris on 9 October to discuss the technical feasibility of deploying military aircraft to protect Ukrainian airspace.
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