Invented and implemented in the United States, the concept of Homeland Security has begun to gain ground in Europe. The European Commission is poised to kick off a huge research project on the subject that will involve member governments and [.
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This spring a so-named Group of Personalities in the Field of Security Research is to submit a report to the [...]
Sources at Japan's counter-intelligence service Public Security Investigation Agency (Koancho) claimed last week that North Korean leader Kim Jong il [...]
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After long months of turf battles at the top at DGSE, French president Jacques Chirac has laid down the line: [...]
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In what could be viewed as both a technological and political revolution, defense and internal security systems will shortly become interoperable in the United States as well between the U.S. and its allies.
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The target of several assassination attempts, general Abdelaziz al Huweirini, number three man in Saudi Arabia's interior ministry, has clearly become the priority target of Islamic terrorists.
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A good third of the defence attaches that work at 101 French diplomatic posts across the world could lose their [...]
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The defunct Total Information Awareness (TIA) promoted by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) seems to keep popping up in new forms. Now we have HSARPA.
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An inquiry by Intelligence Online shows how secret negotiations conducted on the sidelines of official channels helped bring about an agreement signed in Paris on Jan. 9 to compensate families of victims of the DC10 airliner operated by UTA.
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Saudi Arabia is facing the agonising question of how to fight anti-government fundamentalism riding increasingly in the country on the coat-tails of al Qaeda. Can Riyadh introduce reforms without provoking challenges to its rule?
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In personally signing a decree appointing Alain Juillet as "senior official in charge of business intelligence," French president Jacques Chirac unquestionably sent out a strong signal: that Juillet is backed to the hilt by the Elysees Palace.
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The future seems rosy for the Cubic firm in San Diego, California. A reporter for the British daily The Guardian [...]
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Between now and the end of May, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will choose a winner among three companies [...]
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European cement manufacturers found guilty of forming a cartel can breathe a sigh of relief. In early January, the European [...]
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A political stand-off between Jacques Chirac and his interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who has presidential ambitions, has given rise to a tug-of-war over a big export contract as well.
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The Pentagon has stopped managing contracts in Iraq and handed the job over to the US Army as a prelude to easing conditions that companies must fulfil to win work.
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A lot of covetous eyes are now trained on a [...]
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A former legislator and now chief of the business intelligence firm CEIS, Olivier Darrason, is due to submit a report [...]
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A few months after setting up its own maritime security division, Control Risks Group has just joined forces with Port [...]
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European legislators are going to vote in plenary session next month on the latest directive against piracy and counterfeiting (directive [...]
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With the European Union copyright directive on protecting intellectual property currently being written into French law, France's Autorite de Regulation [...]
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The secretary-general of Iran's Supreme Security Council, mullah Hassan Ruhani, [...]
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Chinese public security (Gonganbu) minister, 61-year-old Zhou Yongkang, who last [...]
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After spending his entire career with the Bureau of Alcohol, [...]
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Air France has named Michel Lenez, a senior executive of [...]
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Wilton Park Conferences is organizing a conference on chemical and [...]
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The SMI company is organizing a conference in London on [...]
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The FCIB association that speaks for companies operating in the [...]
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Little by little the former Soviet republics are joining big [...]
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The European commissioner in charge of the internal market, Frits [...]
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Some 100 Defense Department facilities will soon be linked together [...]
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