Engineering firms that install French missiles and electronic components on foreign-owned or outdated French materiel are leaving France one by one to set up shop in countries where there are fewer controls on defence companies.
Saudi Arabia's backing has much to do with the spectacular advances made by Jabhat al-Nusra anti-regime fighters in Syria in recent weeks.
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US intelligence services have initiated talks to equip Algiers with an advanced observation satellite that will allow it to effectively monitor the Sahara.
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Serbian nationalists lost the war in Kosovo in 1999 but they have not given up the fight, and are now battling to win over Europeans to their cause.
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What could be done if Syria deployed chemical weapons, was the key question French security chiefs addressed in Paris recently.
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Negotiations have broken down between Russia and Azerbaijan over the rental of the 6,000km-range Gabala radar alert station, with Moscow [...]
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Moscow has distanced itself from Syrian President Bashar Al Assad’s regime in the past week or so and is now [...]
After a question was asked by Pro-Syrian Alawite MP Mehmet Ali Ediboglu on December 10, Turkey’s Interior Minister Idris Naim [...]
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Hideshi Mitani, who headed the Naicho, the Japanese prime minister's [...]
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The NSA almost scored a double whammy recently on the [...]
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The CNR, France's intelligence coordinator, should be placed in charge [...]
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The ISC, the British parliament's Intelligence & Security Committee, which [...]
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The DSS, the Pentagon agency in charge of protecting US [...]
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Alexander Litvinenko, the late FSB former agent who died in [...]
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Turkey’s intelligence community estimates that between 3,000 and 10,000 jihadists [...]
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Japan's intelligence community is delighted that the country's conservative Liberal [...]
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It was with the discreet support of Hamas that Jabhat [...]
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The new Basque regional government has been constituted following the [...]
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Robert Ford, the US ambassador to Damascus, made a series [...]
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Alexandre Medvedowsky, the new president of the strategic and corporate intelligence consultancy ESL, plans to develop the company along three lines.
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The St George brothers' security group Olive has created a new brand for its industrial security business.
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Britain is poised to accept a US-developed standard for its private security sector. "PSC 1-2012" will probably become the international standard for private security contractors.
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Short-sellers and the companies whose share price they try to drive down often hone their attacks and counter-attacks with the help of hired consultants.
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Three European companies are battling it out for the contract to supply biometric passports to Lebanon. The contenders are two [...]
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According to our sources, Gendarmerie Colonel Pierre Tabel was hired on December 31 to head security at Louis Vuitton, the [...]
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Tajik President Emomalii Rahmon fears that NATO's withdrawal from Afghanistan might mean an end to his privileged relationship with the [...]
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A consortium led by GardaWorld, a subsidiary of Canadian private [...]
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Georgia's billionnaire businessman Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has called off [...]
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After months of hesitation over his fate (IOL 668,669), Olivier [...]
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According to our sources, Boeing is interested in a contract [...]
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Submissions for the contract to protect Areva's expatriate workers in [...]
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Triskel, the maritime security company that is registered in London [...]
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Amman Security is the new company that was recently set [...]
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GlobalSource, the corporate intelligence and private security firm headed by [...]
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John Holmes, has changed the name of his corporate intelligence [...]
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Academi, the former Blackwater, houses no fewer than three US [...]
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Tim Weller, the financial director of the Emirati oil products [...]
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The US has procured Russian arms from discreet intermediaries to equip Iraq and Afghanistan's armies and also for U.S Special Forces.
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Charles Farr, who missed snagging the directorship of MI6 in [...]
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Ahmed Jibril, the head of the pro-Syrian Popular Front for [...]
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David Howell, who was Britain's deputy foreign minister from May [...]
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The FBI's probe into CIA chief David Petraeus extra-marital affair revealed that even draft e-mails can be hacked into.
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