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China
Beijing's Fujian aircraft carrier and its catapult far from fully operational

Despite Beijing's promising announcements, images of China's third aircraft carrier have left military analysts sceptical. Several technical details suggest that the equipment designed to launch and recover the carrier's aircraft has not been tested extensively.

United Kingdom
Journalists who wrote about Builder.ai were targeted with specialist email-tracing software, documents show

In 2024, the Qatar and Softbank-backed company commissioned a team of outside advisers to determine who was briefing reporters about its business. As part of the campaign, cyber specialists sought to trace the email history of at least two Wall Street Journal staff.

France, Germany, Russia
High-ranking BND official falls victim to Russian phishing campaign on Signal and WhatsApp

A Russian phishing campaign has targeted European intelligence agents, diplomats, politicians and journalists. The list of identified victims has been shared among the affected countries. A senior official from Germany's BND federal intelligence service is among them.

The Agencies' Gazette
Portland loses Doha advisory work, Veolia poaches judicial police chief, Frontex shooting training in Warsaw

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

DohaPortland relinquishes key-role in Doha after decade of service

ParisSecurity shake-up at Veolia

WarsawSpecial forces veteran wins the Frontex shooting training contract

France, Morocco
Security clearance refusal threatens to cool warming Franco-Moroccan security ties

It appears that a refusal to grant security clearance to a French foreign ministry chief of staff resulting in her dismissal was motivated by her ties with Morocco, despite the fact the two countries collaborate closely over security matters.

Qatar, Ukraine
Kyiv-Doha antidrone cooperation hits snag over Mirage fleet

The small team of anti-drone specialists dispatched a few days ago by Kyiv to Doha to assist Qatar against drones launched by Iran is seeing its progress hampered by defence industry negotiations.