Iran’s navy received its first signals intelligence ship on Wednesday, semi-official Tasnim news organisation reported, a few days after the country’s army took delivery of 1,000 new drones. The Zagros is a new category of military vessel equipped with electronic sensors and the ability to intercept cyber-operations and conduct intelligence monitoring, Tasnim said. “The … Read more
Yet that doesn’t mean only European providers can offer sovereign cloud solutions. American providers might also be able to protect customer data from United States government access through technical measures such as client-side encryption, encryption with third-party key management or confidential computing. If securely implemented, the American provider can then only disclose data in its … Read more
However, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen organized a meeting with party leaders on Thursday to discuss the issue, while Rasmussen backpedaled on his initial nonchalant reaction. “We are taking this very seriously, but we don’t have any ambition to escalate a war of words with a president that is on the way into the White … Read more
France is the leader of a group of countries that wants the money largely reserved for European companies, with safeguards to prevent non-EU companies from easily accessing the fund. Other countries, including the Netherlands and Poland, want the money to fund procurement and production of non-EU equipment made under license on European soil, such as … Read more
Foreign spies are disguising their identities to buy phone numbers and social media accounts in China so they can pose as job recruiters or close friends to gather personal information, the country’s top intelligence agency has warned. In a post on its social media account on Tuesday, the Ministry of State Security (MSS) cited three … Read more
OK, Europe will have to endure again presidential histrionics and needling all-caps tweets, along with threats to withdraw from NATO and impose tariffs, but doesn’t that present an opportunity? Might now European leaders screw up their courage and loosen the apron strings? For years they’ve waffled on about strategic autonomy and sharing the burden more … Read more
One of the most politically sensitive topics in Brussels, the €1.2 trillion budget governs spending on anything from support to Ukraine to film subsidies. Hawkish Eastern European and Nordic countries including Poland and Sweden are keen to boost EU spending on defense, while Southern ones such as Italy and Greece would like more cash to … Read more
At the other end of Europe, Russia’s war in Ukraine continues. Ukrainians chalked up some successes in 2024, becoming a dominant force in the Black Sea despite the country’s tiny navy, and mounting a counteroffensive into Russia’s Kursk region in August. But they are ending this year on the back foot, having lost many of … Read more
Authorities in Moscow said on Saturday that they had prevented the killing of a high-ranking Russian military officer and a pro-war Russian blogger with a homemade bomb hidden in a portable music speaker, a plot allegedly prepared by Ukraine. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), a successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said that a Russian citizen, … Read more
LONDON — There wasn’t a great deal of time for reading in Westminster this year. Labour’s election supermajority, dramas over freebies and staff, war everywhere, a tax-hiking budget, and a heap of missions, milestones, foundations, pillars and steps kept Britain’s politicians on their toes. But, thankfully, some of Westminster’s finest still managed to steal a … Read more
