David Marlowe's arrival, the first appointment made by new CIA director William Burns, makes it clear US intelligence is still very much concerned with the Middle East, despite China taking the front stage.
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With two investigations by the Swiss and French authorities now ongoing, the writing is on the wall for the governor of the Lebanese Central Bank Salamé.
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Ukraine has joined in on the wave of new Europe and US sanctions, which target both supporters of the Lukashenko regime and Russian overseas representatives. But though their lists almost match, Kyiv's has include some very notable differences.
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While economic sanctions continue to rain down on Minsk, the potash company Uralkali, controlled by Russian oligarch Dmitry Mazepin's Uralchem, is prospering thanks to support from Moscow and hopes to take over its principal rivals in Belarus.
The security firm, headed by a former public security agent, is a partner to the European Union delegation in Beijing.
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Novi Financial, Facebook's subsidiary dedicated to the cryptocurrency Diem, formerly Libra, has hired a number of former US Treasury Department compliance experts.
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Cybersixgill has just moved closer to UAE's Khalifa bin Butti al-Muhairi's empire, a distributor of cyber services in the region.
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