RussiaSpanish intelligence corroborated early suspicions that Moscow orchestrated last week’s assassination in Alicante of a Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine and then moved to Spain. It would be Russia’s first known targeted killing on Spanish soil, but not its first in Western Europe. READ MOREChinaU.S. officials announced a plan to invest over $20 billion in domestically produced cargo cranes to replace Chinese cranes in American ports. At present, nearly 80% of ship-to-shore cranes in U.S. ports are Chinese-made, and China hawks fear they could be vulnerable to manipulation by Beijing. READ MOREThe World Daily Brief is composed daily by former CIA and Intelligence officers.

Source: Daily Sun February 24, 2024 13:58 UTC