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"The luckiest dentist in Abu Dhabi," that is how Mohammed Somar Ajalyaqin is often described when his name crops up

With the new year and the "last phase of the war," as President Volodymyr Zelensky put it (IO, 13/11/23), the

A few months after first contact with his handlers from China's Ministry of State Security (MSS, or Guanbu) in Thailand

There has been no mention of Abdullah Yahya Al Hakim in any of the Houthis' statements since the recent spate

In late November, 29-year-old Texan Brandon Gill, a former vice president at JP Morgan Private Bank announced he was running for a seat

Biobot Analytics announced on 20 December that it had closed a deal to monitor the city of Laredo, Texas's wastewater for public health purposes. That was good news for Biobot and also for retired Army Lieutenant General HR McMaster, who joined

French big data analysis company ChapsVision's 100% acquisition of the automatic translation firm Systran was made official on 11 January

Herzliya - Roy Geva Glasberg joins Lumi NetworksThe Israeli start-up Lumi Networks, founded in May 2023, has brought Roy Geva

The latest invitations to tender issued by Vietnam's Viettel, seen by Intelligence Online, show that the defence ministry-owned telecommunications conglomerate

The never-ending purge within the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is being extended internationally. The ministry of state security, the Guoanbu,

Curaleaf, the world's largest marijuana company, which has also been linked to oligarch Roman Abramovich, has hired several firms and

ADIT is being very quiet about the final schedule for its takeover of Défense Conseil International (DCI), the former French

Mark Pritchard MP, who sat on the British parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) from 2020 to 2022, is expanding his contacts in the Balkans, adding his new job as consultant for Macedonian businessman Shefshet Demirovski's ATS Group, which specialises

Former colonel Chad Davis has joined Stellar Solutions, a key aerospace engineering player founded by Celeste Ford that has contracts

France's plans to send a large business delegation to Riyadh in February could be undermined by Olivier Becht's uncertain future

The victory of the Democratic Progressive Party's Lai Ching-te (aka William Lai) in the 13 January presidential elections (IO, 03/01/24)

The strategic communications service in the London offices of FTI Consulting is paying close attention to the US National Transportation

Boston - CIA and FBI veterans team up in MassachusettsFormer CIA chief of staff Richard Peristere has recently joined FBI

Retired US Navy capital Winton Smith's arrival this month at Jones Group International (JGI) further anchors the US consultancy to the Saudi armed forces. Smith, who served with the US Navy international relations division and as a naval attaché to Japan,

Interionet's shareholders are quietly taking the reins of the Israeli cyber intelligence company. Two new administrators have just been appointed,