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...The Chinese officer made reference to past efforts to target Martin Selmayr, a former secretary-general of the European Commission who was once among the most powerful officials in Brussels....
...The 86-page warrant claims Marsalek commissioned Ott, and another senior security official, Martin Weiss, the head of Austrian intelligence operations, to facilitate undercover work for Russia’s military...
...Maassen was also praised at a controversial meeting at a villa in Potsdam last November between figures on the rightwing fringe and the Austrian ethno-nationalist ideologue Martin Sellner....
...Martin Amis, the author of London Fields and The Rachel Papers, who died in May, received a knighthood....
...As tyranny’s appeal seems to grow around the world, Martin Wolf reminds us that democracy is still better than autocracy....
...This weekend Apple will roll out acclaimed director Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon in more than 3,600 US cinemas and thousands more in 63 other markets around the world....
...Perhaps it’s just as well that Bernard H Casey is writing from London and not from inside China, or especially Hong Kong (“China spy balloon sparks Pooh Bear memories”, Letters, February 9) when he mentions...
...Investing: There may be some truth to fund managers’ grumbles that passive investing meaningfully alters the markets, writes Katie Martin....
...China’s excess savings: How Beijing manages these savings is likely to be the most important single determinant of global interest rates and the global balance of payments, writes Martin Wolf....
...Now read these Big tent: We need the G20, writes Martin Wolf, but what is it for?...
...john.thornhill@ft.com Letters in response to this column:A welcome break from the usual commentary/Martin Allen, London N1, UKIt’s an issue when quantum does room temperature AI/Franco Vitaliano, President...
...US executives are back in greater numbers in a sign that bilateral tensions have eased slightly after falling to new lows last year due to a spy balloon incident....
...Ukraine’s top spy: The FT speaks to Kyrylo Budanov, Kyiv’s military spymaster who has survived 10 assassination attempts....
...Bernard H Casey London TW1, UK Letter in response to this: Bears, spy balloons and Xi/From Judith Martin, Winchester, Hampshire, UK...
...Join FT journalists, Martin Wolf and Alec Russell, as well as, expert guests on January 24 1pm GMT for a subscriber-exclusive webinar. Register for free here....
...For many consumers, a car that spies on you by sending data about your behaviour to a manufacturer in a different jurisdiction is a different product from one that doesn’t....
...A mega scoop to start: Chinese spies ran a far-right Belgian politician as an intelligence asset for more than two years, we reveal this morning....
...My one unmissable highlight: I’m very keen to see Mick Herron, the brilliant comic spy novelist, whose work mixes humour, political satire and the best spy writing....
...China is refusing to let US secretary of state Antony Blinken visit Beijing over concerns that the FBI will release the results of an investigation into the downed suspected Chinese spy balloon....
...Take a break from the news Latin reggaeton superstar J Balvin has teamed up with Australian-born museum director Melissa Chiu to bring art — and mental health awareness — to Gen Z....
...“We’ve been told that Tory spies are here,” said one. Reeves will claim that growth must be accompanied by what she called “iron discipline” on the economy....
...A Faithful Spy by Jimmy Burns (Chiselbury)The interlocking world of US and UK intelligence is illuminated in this biography of Walter Bell, an MI5 and MI6 officer who sat at the heart of the development...
...I strongly agree with my colleague, Martin Wolf, on Ukraine fatigue being unpardonable....
...But his reporting in April about a man left broken by his work as a spy for MI6 was particularly stunning. The story was both tragic — the spy killed his own child — and startling....
...But better yet would be the opening of Topaz, the spy thriller Hitchcock made three years later....
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