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Cybersecurity of aviation sector will improve slowly

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INTERNATIONAL

Aviation cybersecurity.

State role will entrench Syrian-Lebanese drugs trade

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SYRIA/LEBANON

Key to the new pattern is the increased association of state and state-linked actors with the trade in narcotics, primarily Captagon and hashish. The new environment creates risks…

Colombia violence to rise as elections approach

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COLOMBIA

Peace process.

Mercenaries are a valuable if wayward Russian asset

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RUSSIA

The Russian authorities have been cautious in crafting their response to the US air and artillery attack that targeted advancing Syrian government forces accompanied by members of…

Regime change in Pyongyang cannot be ruled out

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NORTH KOREA

Yet events beyond its borders mean that if the regime does not change its direction strains can only increase. Modern media, impossible to exclude entirely, mean Pyongyang no…

US process on revealing software flaws may be reformed

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UNITED STATES

This comes as the spotlight intensifies on the vulnerability disclosure process of private firms as well as of US intelligence agencies, and the balance between public and…

Prospects for China to end-2020

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PROSPECTS 2020 H2

It has also accelerated the slide of China’s relations with the West to their lowest point in decades.

Virus testing will be key to lockdown exit strategies

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INTERNATIONAL

COVID-19 lockdown 'exit strategies'.

Policy is key to managing existential risk of AI

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INT

A particularly sensitive strand of this debate focuses on ‘existential’ risks. This concern was voiced in a terse but influential recent statement by Center for AI Safety (CAIS)…

China doubles down on zero-COVID

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CHINA

The lockdown of Shanghai this spring was China’s most severe since the first in Wuhan in 2020. The nature of China's political system makes public course-corrections difficult…