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Baku Becomes Hub in German Spy Scandal as Secret Russia Talks Surface
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Baku Becomes Hub in German Spy Scandal as Secret Russia Talks Surface

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Reporting that former German officials met Russian representatives in Azerbaijan, while ex-BND chief August Hanning sat on a German-Azerbaijani forum board, places Baku at the centre of a possible influence channel that German counterintelligence is only beginning to map.

Reporting that former German officials met Russian representatives in Azerbaijan, while ex-BND chief August Hanning sat on a German-Azerbaijani forum board, places Baku at the centre of a possible influence channel that German counterintelligence is only beginning to map.

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Named US Officer Faces UK Charges in NATO Headquarters Russia Sting

US officials have named the officer held in Gloucestershire as Lt Col Brandon Tyner, a senior human resources officer at NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, and say a sting stopped any information reaching Russia before UK charges expected on 15 or 16 November.

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Woolwich Jury Convicts Two Iranians of Hunting Iran International Journalists

A London jury has convicted two Iranian men of assisting Tehran's intelligence services by surveilling Iran International journalists, the clearest judicial confirmation yet that the IRGC runs locally recruited proxies against dissident media on British soil.

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Named US Officer Faces UK Charges in NATO Headquarters Russia Sting

US officials have named the officer held in Gloucestershire as Lt Col Brandon Tyner, a senior human resources officer at NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, and say a sting stopped any information reaching Russia before UK charges expected on 15 or 16 November.

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Woolwich Jury Convicts Two Iranians of Hunting Iran International Journalists

A London jury has convicted two Iranian men of assisting Tehran's intelligence services by surveilling Iran International journalists, the clearest judicial confirmation yet that the IRGC runs locally recruited proxies against dissident media on British soil.

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Beijing Frames Nvidia Espionage Claims as Cover for US Tech Blockade

Beijing has converted alleged Chinese intelligence targeting of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang into a diplomatic counter-narrative of US technological containment, days before a Trump-Xi meeting at APEC in Shenzhen.

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FSB Claims Polish Spy Ring in Kaliningrad as Warsaw Cries Provocation

The FSB's claimed arrest of two Polish citizens in Kaliningrad, a week after Poland broke up a Russian-tasked supply network running through the exclave, is assessed as a calibrated reciprocal move that gives Moscow hostages, a counter-narrative and leverage over Warsaw's accelerating counterintelligence campaign.

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France Names IRGC Cyber Unit Behind Sabotage of 700 Supermarket Freezers

France has formally attributed the October sabotage of refrigeration systems at roughly 700 supermarkets to an IRGC cyber unit, the first state-attributed destructive cyberattack on French soil and a marker that Tehran's war against the US is now producing physical effects inside Europe.

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US Soldier Held in Britain on Suspicion of Aiding Russian Intelligence

The arrest of a serving US Army soldier in Britain under the National Security Act 2023 confirms that Russian intelligence is targeting allied personnel inside UK-based NATO and US infrastructure, and that the Anglo-American counterintelligence partnership is now working cases jointly from the outset.

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Iran Talks Stall as Washington Claims Victory and Strikes Continue

Mediation between Washington and Tehran has been suspended while the US publicly claims victory, keeps striking Iranian targets and tightens its blockade, leaving mines and miscalculation in the Strait of Hormuz as the main escalation path.

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Nvidia Board Opens Independent Probe Into CEO's Alleged Chinese Intelligence Contact

Nvidia's board has handed an independent committee and outside counsel the task of examining CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with a Megaspeed executive US officials reportedly suspect of working for China, converting a congressional counterintelligence inquiry into a governance and export-control test case.

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Spy Chiefs Lead Abu Dhabi Talks as Russia Strikes Kyiv Grid

Both delegations to the 10-11 November Abu Dhabi talks are led or staffed by intelligence chiefs, while Russia's strike on Kyiv's grid suggests Moscow is negotiating from coercion rather than compromise.

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