Kenneth Close, head of business diplomacy specialist Quincy Group, which helps American groups to do business in Saudi Arabia, is looking to diversify its activities following the departure of consultant Cory Stephens.
The British intelligence services were abandoned by their then boss, foreign secretary Dominic Raab, after their incorrect assessment of the Afghan situation, yet the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, continues to defend them. The latter regards that problem as being the result of the severe damage caused by the Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraqi intervention, which crippled London's spymasters.
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Beirut port security officials who are in competition with one another and still struggling to work together, visited France to pick up security tips from French port operations, a trip that drew interest from French company CMA CGM, which has a stake in the Beirut port reconstruction.
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The cement sector is a crucial part of President Abdel Fattah al Sisi's future administrative capital mega-project. Dominated by the Egyptian army, the sector has suffered a new setback following German company HeidelbergCement and its French and Italian subsidiaries' decision to register a request for arbitration proceedings with the World Bank's arbitration court, ICSID.
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MP Raphaël Gauvain still hasn't managed to get his draft "Sapin 3" law onto parliament's agenda. Various stakeholders, such as France's anticorruption agency, senior civil servants and local authorities have laboured to bury the bill even as the OECD is evaluating the country and some foreign jurisdictions are keeping a close eye on it.
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Having just won a new contract with the European Maritime Safety Agency, Nordic Unmanned is expanding into the military and police drone market. To this end, the company appointed in June Laurent Rouchon, a former French air force officer who also worked for Thales, to the position of vice president of security and defence.
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