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Seeing an opportunity in the appointment of new officials and ministers in Westminster, the Indian Ocean archipelago state of Maldives hired a public affairs firm this month to argue its long-held claim to the Chagos islands. Woodrow Communications, founded by former [...]

Pakistani Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb went all out to welcome representatives of private Saudi conglomerate Asyad, headed by Omar al-Sayed, [...]

A manager at the French finance ministry's anti-money laundering unit Tracfin, who was the deputy head of the technical department [...]

There was more to Indonesian Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin's trip to Beijing on 16 September than attending the Beijing Xiangshan [...]

With 42 days to go until midterm elections, the US intelligence community is keeping remarkably quiet about potential threats to [...]

A recent debate over whether France's National Rally (RN) party might cut financial aid to Ukraine should it win next [...]

Washington-based lawyer David Cohen, of law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP, has been engaged in a highly sensitive mission for weeks. He is tasked with convincing the relevant authorities that his client, AAL Group – a low-profile group based [...]

The chief of staff of the Emirati armed forces, Issa Saif al-Mazrouei, the commander of the Qatari air force, Mohammed [...]

France – Viginum boss kept Élysée in dark over exitIt is an understatement to say that some at the Élysée [...]

The meeting of the management board of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex, taking place on 21 and [...]

According Intelligence Online sources, at least half a dozen Hungarian officers based in European countries and working either for the [...]

The Taiwanese military's Institute for National Defense and Security Research (INDSR) think-tank on 27 August hosted British and US researchers [...]

Having been sentenced on 8 January in France to a one-year suspended prison sentence for attempted extortion of the businessman Alain Duménil, the former head of the French DGSE foreign intelligence agency, Bernard Bajolet, now knows the date of his appeal hearing.

Walid Abukhaled, who was recently appointed chairman of the board of the Saudi biscuit and confectionery manufacturer and exporter United Food Industries Corp (also known as Deemah), is better acquainted with weaponry than with sweet treats. He was already a [...]

Havas Paris shows no sign of letting up in its drive to break new ground. Yannick Bolloré's communications agency, led [...]

The tender selection process for a new batch of around 30 vessels under the Philippine Navy's Fast Attack Interdiction Craft [...]

There's a joke within the intelligence community that you need a CIA badge to get into the McLean Family Restaurant, [...]

A French court has ruled in favour of a more flexible use of complementary notes to the unsigned memos or notes blanches used by the French administration, and therefore the intelligence services.

A new Russian embassy is set to officially open in Comoros in the coming months, but its ambassador was appointed by presidential decree in early September.

Intelligence Online can reveal that Ilkka Salmi, the deputy head of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Human Resources, responsible for security, has just been appointed to coordinate the intelligence unit of the European Union's executive body's security council. His appointment [...]