As fighting in the Donbass intensifies, Kyiv is negotiating with the West to obtain heavier weapons. It is especially keen to obtain airborne weaponry, but while the US, followed by most European countries, has started to respond, Paris is reluctant to follow.
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Corporate Intel The Kazakh president has managed to get several of his former intelligence chief Karim Massimov's allies to turn their coats as the reform of the country's domestic intelligence service, the KNB, nears completion.
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Operations The organisation of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet's trip to Xinjiang was entrusted by Xi Jinping to Vice Premier Wang Yang, whose political destiny could hinge on the mission's success.
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Back-door diplomacy On the sidelines of the internal security and civil defence trade fair, Milipol Qatar, French defence companies cosied up to the movers and shakers framing the development of Qatar's domestic defence industry.
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Corporate Intel Russia's war on Ukraine is set to swell European Union expenditure on defence. Airbus and Thales want to ensure a share of that windfall comes their way.
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Corporate Intel In a fresh twist in their long legal wrangle with the Kazakh government, Moldovan oligarchs Anatol and Gabriel Stati have changed their usual lawyers, opting for an investigation veteran.
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Corporate Intel The increased intensity of China's charm offensive in the Pacific is primarily to offer a short-term reset on its approach to Taiwan.
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Defence Among its hundreds of new cyber recruits, the information control department of the French military procurement agency, the DGA, will create an information warfare taskforce to give the ministry of armed forces the technical means to achieve its goals.
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