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...South Korean officials told the Financial Times that the two SI Innotec employees, who previously worked for Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, have been accused of obtaining dozens of pages of...
...While Conservatives warmly welcomed the surprise announcement — one texted in Latin, naturally, to say “si vis pacem, para bellum” (“if you want peace, prepare for war”) — we can expect Sunak to face tough...
...“Share buybacks are more about the [market] sentiment,” said Si Fu, a China equity strategist at Goldman Sachs, who said the share price impact of such measures alone was likely to be limited....
...In an unusual breach of the strict protocol around Nobel Prize decisions, Swedish media reported the names of the winners hours before the official announcement....
...China’s top health official has said egg freezing creates an incentive to delay pregnancy, arguing for restricting access to the procedure....
...The three spies I speak to are bound by multiple restrictions: the Official Secrets Act, which makes it a criminal offence to disclose classified information; MI6’s pledge that it will never reveal the identities...
...at appropriating the uniform of the Left Bank intellectual to conform to the new mood of “sobriété énergétique” (energy sobriety), with others such as prime minister Élisabeth Borne resorting to holding official...
...And what a dreary, terrifying place it is, even for Rose Ransom, a Geli and an apparently loyal official in the Ministry of Culture charged with infiltrating subversive poetry groups....
...The health of Xi, China’s most powerful leader in a generation, is among the most sensitive issues in the country, meaning there is little chance of commentary on the incident by officials or media....
...The answer from stock market analysts is a resounding “sí”....
...Compliance levels at the border surprised UK officials, with only 2 per cent of trucks being turned away by mid-February, thanks to a combination of awareness campaigns (remember the Kent access permit?)...
...Standing in an arch atop Isfahan’s historic Si-o-Se Pol bridge, Farzad peers down at the water gushing below, recalling how days earlier the river bed was dry and its banks empty of people....
...UK officials are engaged in talks with “senior” members of the Taliban as they rush to secure a safe passage for eligible Afghans to leave the country following the withdrawal of international forces....
...A Lebanese official confirmed the authenticity of the letter....
...Prüm is a less potent and intrusive crime-fighting tool than SIS II, EU officials remark....
...The move will also help with aspects of EU-UK law enforcement co-operation, although Britain has lost access after Brexit to the giant SIS II police database, which enables information sharing across the...
...Tom Bower, who for his biography of the British spy chief Dick White, The Perfect English Spy, was granted rare interviews with White and other SIS officials, wrote that after Blake’s unmasking in 1961,...
...Chef Tak Chow, who runs the canteen’s kitchen, served as the apprentice of Li “Broken Teeth” Cheng, one of whose ancestors was the household chef for the prominent Qing dynasty official Gong Taai Si....
...This system has already helped intelligence officials track the movements of foreign jihadis returning from fighting alongside Isis in Syria and Iraq....
...“I look forward to continuing that work alongside the brave and dedicated team at SIS,” he said....
...Official data of damages to hog inventory have yet to be released, but videos and photos of dead pigs and flooded pens suggest farms did not escape the deluge....
...Gordievsky provided his SIS spymasters with a window on to the thinking of the Kremlin leadership....
...“Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno.”...
...The European arrest warrant, meanwhile, has been replaced with a new extradition arrangement, which some UK officials think has better safeguards — requests can, for instance, be refused for minor offences...
...Britain is already resigned to losing access to some EU crime-fighting databases, including the Schengen Information System (SIS II)....
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