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Didier Le Bret, the current director of the French foreign ministry's Académie diplomatique et consulaire and the Quai d’Orsay’s top candidate for the post of ambassador to Vietnam, pictured in Paris, on 22 June 2023.
Didier Le Bret, the current director of the French foreign ministry's Académie diplomatique et consulaire and the Quai d’Orsay’s top candidate for the post of ambassador to Vietnam, pictured in Paris, on 22 June 2023.© Abd Rabbo Ammar/ABACA via Reuters Connect

Intelligence adviser to former French president top pick for ambassador to Vietnam role

The French foreign ministry's favourite candidate to replace its ambassador to Vietnam Olivier Brochet this summer is a former presidential official, whose experience in intelligence and family background is likely to catch the attention of Vietnamese leaders.
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FN Browning Group, which controls the French hunting ammunition manufacturer Sofisport, tops a blacklist issued by Beijing on 24 April.
FN Browning Group, which controls the French hunting ammunition manufacturer Sofisport, tops a blacklist issued by Beijing on 24 April.© Éric Guilloret/Biosphoto via AFP

Chinese sanctions threaten to disrupt European supplies of gunpowder used in hunting cartridges

Beijing's sanctions on seven European defence manufacturers it accuses of exporting arms to Taiwan now threaten supplies of nitrocellulose, a compound used to make gunpowder. China's measures, announced in late April, have until now been downplayed, despite the risks they pose to firms throughout the bloc as it seeks to rearm.
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US counter-propaganda, Triads and the DGSE, Rolling purges at the PLA, Bulgarian prosecutor's 'clean hands' operation

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