
SOUTHCOM commander: DoD to ‘right-size’ staffing at Guantanamo Bay
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 12, 2020 - The Department of Defense is considering reducing the number of staff at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Pentagon officials said this week.
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Washington DC (UPI) Mar 12, 2020 - The Department of Defense is considering reducing the number of staff at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Pentagon officials said this week.
Mar 12, 2020

Baghdad (AFP) March 12, 2020 - Two American soldiers and a British soldier were killed Wednesday, a US official said, in the deadliest rocket attack in years on an Iraqi military base hosting foreign troops.
Mar 12, 2020

Washington (AFP) March 12, 2020 - A civil liberties watchdog sued the US government Thursday seeking the disclosure of records on the use of facial recognition technology being deployed at American airports.
Mar 12, 2020

Clear AK (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 - The Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) program has completed delivery of the first ten antenna panels to Clear, Alaska, that will make up the first of the system's
Mar 11, 2020

Beijing (AFP) March 11, 2020 - Online users in China have adopted a range of creative measures - including screenshots, deliberate typos, PDF files and Morse code - to share a censored article on a whistleblowing doctor.
Mar 11, 2020

Washington DC (UPI) Mar 11, 2020 - Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett said this week that better transparency may be the key to overcoming skepticism about the newly created Space Force. Much of what the Space Force - p
Mar 11, 2020

Washington DC (UPI) Mar 11, 2020 - Raytheon Missile Systems received a $109.6 million contract modification for work on the MK 15 Close-In Weapon System for the Navy, according to the Pentagon.
Mar 11, 2020

Washington (AFP) March 11, 2020 - The US needs a top-level cybersecurity coordinator and a better strategy of deterrence to protect against hackers and other cyber threats, a congressionally mandated commission said Wednesday.
Mar 11, 2020

Beijing (AFP) March 11, 2020 - Key companies can resume work in coronavirus-hit Wuhan, China announced Wednesday, in another sign authorities are confident they are winning the battle against the epidemic as they seek to revive the economy.
Mar 11, 2020

Beijing (AFP) March 11, 2020 - Beijing on Wednesday accused the United States of a provocative act by sending a warship into disputed territorial waters in the South China Sea.
Mar 11, 2020

New York (AFP) March 11, 2020 - The United States on Tuesday granted Chinese telecom giant Huawei another 45 days to continue doing business with American companies.
Mar 11, 2020

Tehran (AFP) March 11, 2020 - Iran warned the UN atomic watchdog on Wednesday to be wary of empty claims passed on to it, after the agency raised questions about the Islamic republic's nuclear programme.
Mar 11, 2020

Dallas TX (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 - Lockheed Martin has tested its next-generation long-range missile designed for the Army's Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) program at White Sands Missile Range, NM. All objectives were achieved in a
Mar 11, 2020

Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 10, 2020 - In late 2019, the Boeing Company was offered a modification contract worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars to upgrade the US Ground-based Midcourse Defence (GMD) interceptor system, which i
Mar 10, 2020

Beijing (AFP) March 10, 2020 - The soaring price of pork and other food kept Chinese consumer inflation close to eight-year highs in February, official data showed Tuesday, as authorities battled the coronavirus outbreak.
Mar 10, 2020

Shanghai (AFP) March 10, 2020 - Top executives with Trip.com, China's leading online travel service, will accept no salaries starting from this month as the company copes with the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, its CEO has told employees.
Mar 10, 2020