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...The move to reward informants for information is among Nick Ephgrave’s plans to reform how the SFO investigates major fraud and economic crime cases after years of setbacks and threats to its future....
...Nick Ephgrave, a former police officer, has said he wants the SFO to move faster on cases and borrow techniques from policing, such as covert tactics, to help the agency achieve better results....
...The SFO is attempting to rebuild its reputation under new director Nick Ephgrave, a former police officer who took up the helm in September, after a number of collapsed cases in recent years....
...But it added that it did not think it would “upend our industry’s efforts to counter covert influence operations”....
...There is plenty of menace in White Fox (Bantam, £18.99/Doubleday, $28), the last volume of Owen Matthews’ outstanding trilogy featuring KGB Lt Col Alexander Vasin....
...Suddenly, everyone from rule-making guru Jordan Peterson to Conservative MP Nick Fletcher seems affronted by their varying understandings of what low-traffic, liveable city neighbourhoods are designed to...
...Rothschild & Co has hired Nick Bossart as head of global advisory for Switzerland, based in Zurich. He was previously head of investment banking for Switzerland at JPMorgan....
...However, Germany has remained a target of covert activity in recent years....
...Nick Clegg, Facebook’s president of global affairs, said in a statement: “Soon millions of ordinary Russians will find themselves cut off from reliable information, deprived of their everyday ways of connecting...
...A covert parachutist floats down while trees shuffle about, Birnam Wood-style. Four interlocking trolleys of varying heights on castors become steps, bookshelves and beds....
...Nick Clegg, Meta’s head of global affairs, said Facebook had received requests from a number of other governments and would “work closely” with them on the issue....
...Germany has been the target of Russian covert activity in recent years....
...The historically covert character of the lost lands of mid Wales, where the Ordovices and Silures resisted the Romans, and Owain Glyndŵr the English, added to our feelings of discovery and adventure....
...It will always be visceral, violent and about politics,” Sir Nick said. “Ultimately it will always require people to go head-to-head on the ground to seek a result and a decision.”...
...Labour’s shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds, writing on Sunday for the Independent, called on the government to be “far more explicit” about how human rights protections would be used....
...Prince Mohammed, the Saudi crown prince, held a secret meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a sign of Riyadh’s warming — if covert — relations with the Jewish state....
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com Follow Robert Shrimsley with myFT and on Twitter Letter in response to this column: US election parallels only get you so far / From Nick Bradbury, Reading, Berkshire, UK...
...Nick Thomas-Symonds, Labour’s shadow home secretary, accused the government of failing to treat the issue with the seriousness it deserved, and said the security services had not had “the strategic support...
...House on Fire (Head of Zeus, RRP£18.99) is the fourth book-length outing for Nick Heller, a private investigator....
...Jessup fires back at Tom Cruise’s Lt. Daniel Kaffee in the 1992 film A Few Good Men, in response to being told “I want the truth!”...
...All senior ministers asked to sign off on secret intelligence missions — such as covert surveillance or computer hacking — undergo vetting by the domestic security service MI5 before being granted access...
...“This was our message in 2007, this remains our message today and will continue to be our message in the near and distant future,” Lt Gen Eisenkot said....
...This could include stepping up covert operations against the GRU. Mrs May’s decision to attribute the attack to the GRU was based on information from British and overseas intelligence services....
...Lt Gen Eisenkot cited his death as a possible trigger for more violence, according to Israeli media. Jibril Rajoub is one of the officials fearful about the future....
...But the 77th Brigade’s use of social media and other covert counter measures remain something of a mystery, leading some critics to question its value....
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