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Spotlight | Japan
Japan's imagery shortfall undermines monitoring of Russia-China action around Kuril Islands

The current compartmentalisation of Japan's intelligence services that have Earth observation capacities is hampering the government's aims to keep a close watch of Russian and Chinese movements around the Kuril Islands and the China Sea.

Subscribers only Space

Government Intelligence

Pakistan
Islamabad prepares to receive Turkish Akinci observation drone in Murid

The Pakistan Air Force is getting its Murid air base ready to take delivery of Akinci drones from Turkey's Baykar, which will bolster airborne intelligence operations around Kashmir.

Subscribers only Defence

China, Italy
Italy's Silk Road withdrawal poses conundrum for Meloni's China agenda

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during the G20 summit in New Delhi in September 2023.© EPA/MAXPPP

Under fire from her own government, the Italian prime minister faces renewed pressure to prevent Italy-China relations giving rise to a governmental or diplomatic crisis after the decision to pull out of Beijing's major New Silk Road project.

Subscribers only Back-Door Diplomacy

International Dealmaking

Germany, Poland, Romania, United States
Pentagon to renew contracts of Eastern Europe port service providers

Washington is reviewing the contracts of service providers for US Transportation Command boats at a Polish port and two Romanian ports, as the Department of Defence reshapes its military activities amid the war in Ukraine.

Subscribers only Corporate Intel

Corporate Intelligence

Europe, Montenegro, Russia
Exiled oligarch Ismailov's hidden assets rekindle Russia-Montenegro tensions

Russian businessman Telman Ismailov in 2009.© Chris Jackson/Chris Jackson Collection/Getty Images via AFP

Moscow has reminded Podgorica that it wants to extradite disgraced tycoon Telman Ismailov, wanted for murder and a debtor to VTB bank, itself now under Western sanctions. Despite having sought asylum in Montenegro, the oligarch has managed to maintain a business empire in Europe while keeping one foot in Russia.

Free access Corporate Intel

Surveillance & Interception

United Kingdom
Space-obsessed British lawmaker Mark Garnier enters thermal imagery race

Conservative MP Mark Garnier in the House of Commons, London, September 2016.© PRU/AFP

Having started his consultancy career for the space industry during fellow Conservative politician Boris Johnson's premiership, Garnier is moving into the promising thermal infra-red satellite imagery sector.

Subscribers only Corporate Intel

The Tech Telegraph
Russia updates Akatsiya, French dual-use exporter's new clients, Israel's Cognyte equips Italy's gendarmes

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

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