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3544 entities tracked across Lowdown briefings. Page 2 of 60.

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Afipsky refineryRUOne of southern Russia's largest oil refineries, located in Krasnodar Krai. Processes approximately 6.25 million tonnes of crude oil annually, roughly 2% of Russia's national refining output. Struck by Ukrainian drones on 14 March 2026 as part of a sustained fuel interdiction campaign.
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Africa CDCAfrica's continental disease surveillance body; declared Ebola emergency 24 hours before WHO PHEIC.
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Africa GroupAfrican member-state bloc negotiating the WHO pandemic treaty pathogen-sharing annex.
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African Medicines AgencyRWAfrican Union continental medicines regulator, treaty in force 2019, Kigali-based; named in Bundibugyo response coordination.
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African UnionETContinental political and economic union of 55 African member states.
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African Vaccine Manufacturing AcceleratorGavi programme funding vaccine manufacturing capacity on the African continent.
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AFRICOMUSUS military command for Africa, found operating at Ukraine's Libyan drone base.
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AfrigenZACape Town biotech company hosting the WHO mRNA technology-transfer hub.
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Agence EuropeBEBrussels-based private news agency publishing a daily bulletin on EU affairs since 1953.
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Agence France-PresseFRIndependent French global news agency supplying text, images and video worldwide.
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Agencia Nacional de Energia Eletrica (ANEEL)BRBrazil's federal electricity regulatory agency.
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Agência para a Integração, Migrações e AsiloPTPortugal's migration agency; 525,000+ files cleared, D8 applicants still wait nine months for a card.
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Agenzia per la Rappresentanza Negoziale delle Pubbliche Amministrazioni (ARAN)ITThe Italian state agency that bargains collective contracts on behalf of public employers.
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Agricultural Bank of ChinaCNChina's largest rural bank by branch network; one of the Big Four state commercial banks.
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AGVDEGerman insurance industry's employers' association, negotiating pay and conditions with unions.
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Ahold DelhaizeNLDutch-Belgian food retail group running supermarket brands in Europe and the US.
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AIACITItaly's football coaches' association; controls 10% of FIGC votes, completing the 30% AIC+AIAC swing bloc.
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AI and Future of Work UnitGBDSIT cross-government unit announced May 2026 to upskill 10 million workers on AI by 2030.
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AI BoardBEThe AI Board is the EU-level body established under the EU AI Act to oversee implementation and coordinate national enforcement; it is conducting an adequacy assessment of the finalised Code of Practice on AI-generated content marking.
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AICITItaly's professional footballers' union; controls 20% of FIGC votes and is a key swing bloc in the presidential election.
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Aikido TechnologiesUSUS startup developing floating offshore wind + integrated data-centre compute platforms.
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AIM DefenceAUAustralian directed-energy defence company; received A$21.3M contract for Fractl high-powered laser under ASCA Mission Syracuse.
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AI OfficeEU enforcement body within the European Commission overseeing AI Act obligations on GPAI models.
AIONGBAtom Interferometer Observatory and Network; a UK collaboration between Imperial College London and the University of Oxford to develop quantum sensors for detecting gravitational waves and dark matter.
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Air ArabiaAESharjah-based budget airline that cut Kuwait flights after attacks shut its airport.
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AirbnbUSGlobal short-let platform facing Europe's biggest STR fine and Mexico City's World Cup rental squeeze.
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AirbusNLEuropean aerospace prime; sovereign AI, cyber, and space capabilities across defence divisions.
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AirDNAUSShort-term rental market data and analytics provider.
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AI Research ResourceGBUK sovereign GPU compute pool underpinning the Sovereign AI Unit and the DAWN supercomputer.
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Air FranceFRFrench flag carrier airline, founded 1933, part of the Air France-KLM Group.
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Air IndiaINIndian flag carrier owned by Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines.
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Air LiquideFRFrench multinational industrial gas company supplying gases, technologies and services across Europe; reported entering structural closure posture.
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AirspeedGBLondon AI company founded by former Google DeepMind scientists, building autonomous agents for sales-team execution.
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Airstream CapitalVenture fund that invested in TidalSense's round.
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Airtel AfricaGBTelecommunications group providing mobile voice, data and money services across African markets.
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Airtel MoneyNLMobile-money business of Airtel Africa, listed in London.
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AirTrunkAUAsia-Pacific data-centre operator acquired by Blackstone for A$24 billion in 2024; operating hyperscale campuses across Australia, Japan, Singapore, and Malaysia.
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AisuruUSIoT botnet seized on 19 March 2026 alongside Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad in a coordinated infrastructure takedown.
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AIVDNLDutch General Intelligence and Security Service, which co-issued the joint advisory warning of state-linked QR-code attacks on Signal and WhatsApp.
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AkamaiUSUS edge CDN; signed a $1.8bn seven-year AI inference deal with Anthropic in May 2026.
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Akasa AirINIndian low-cost airline whose Saudi flights were cancelled during the Gulf conflict.
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Aker ASANONorwegian industrial holding company; co-led record $2bn European AI infrastructure round.
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Aker BP ASANONorwegian oil E&P company; second-largest NCS producer; signed NCS partnership with Equinor on 21 May 2026.
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Alabuga PolytechRURussian technical college attached to the Geran-2 drone assembly complex in Tatarstan; recruiting an unmanned-systems brigade via Telegram since mid-April 2026.
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Al AkhbarLBBeirut daily newspaper; Tehran's chosen channel to threaten annulment of the Islamabad MOU.
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Al-AmanaLBHezbollah fuel network in Lebanon, struck by Israel as a military-logistics target.
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AlanchandIRIranian open-market exchange rate tracking platform that monitors the USD/IRR rate on unofficial markets.
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Al ArabiyaSASaudi-owned pan-Arab satellite television news network broadcasting in Arabic, widely watched across the Middle East.
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Alaska Black CaucusUSAlaska civil-rights organisation challenging the release of the state voter list.
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Alaska Division of ElectionsUSAlaska agency administering statewide elections and voter records, whose federal data-sharing agreement faces privacy litigation.
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Alaskans Standing TogetherUSAlaska super PAC funded by regional Native corporations that backed Lisa Murkowski's 2010 write-in campaign.
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Alaska Permanent FundUSAlaska's sovereign wealth fund distributing oil-resource dividends to residents.
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Alaska Public MediaUSAlaska statewide PBS/NPR member; primary source for Murkowski Senate floor coverage.
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Alaska Supreme CourtUSAlaska’s highest court, hearing civil appeals and overseeing administration of the state judiciary.
Albanese GovernmentAUAustralian Labor government led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese since May 2022, with a major AUKUS and defence investment mandate.
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Albert HeijnNLThe Netherlands' largest supermarket chain, owned by Ahold Delhaize.
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Albion VCTsGBLondon-listed VCT suite managed by Albion Capital; Britain's top-raising VCT manager in the 2025/26 record year.
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Alchemab TherapeuticsGBUK biotech using machine learning to discover protective antibodies for drug development.
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Aleph AlphaDEGerman sovereign AI company; merging with Cohere at 90/10 equity split with Schwarz €500m anchor and Berlin sovereignty conditions.
AlfaStrakhovanieRUSanctioned Russian composite insurer operating outside the International Group P&I pool, linked to the Caroline Bezengi's salvage cover.