
Raytheon awarded $641M for ballistic missile defense system testing
Washington (UPI) Jan 16, 2018 - The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon with a contract to test multiple radar platforms to support the Ballistic Missile Defense System.
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Washington (UPI) Jan 16, 2018 - The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon with a contract to test multiple radar platforms to support the Ballistic Missile Defense System.
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Seoul (AFP) Jan 16, 2018 - South Korea nearly doubled wages for its rank-and-file conscripted soldiers on Tuesday but their pay will remain just a fraction of the country's minimum wage.
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Washington (AFP) Jan 16, 2018 - The US military is conducting very serious training for a possible conflict with North Korea, a top Republican lawmaker said Tuesday, though he said he hoped such preparations would never be put to use.
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Washington (AFP) Jan 16, 2018 - US President Donald Trump told Chinese leader Xi Jinping he was disappointed about Washington's deepening trade deficit with Beijing, calling the situation not sustainable, the White House said Tuesday.
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Washington (UPI) Jan 16, 2018 - The modernization of the United States' missile monitoring and defense system is scheduled to meet another benchmark on Thursday with the launch of GEO-4, the fourth satellite in the Space-Based Infrared System, or SBIRS.
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Yerevan (AFP) Jan 16, 2018 - Armenia's parliament on Tuesday passed a resolution recognising the 2014 genocide of Yazidis by the Islamic State group in Iraq and called for an international probe into the crimes.
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Beijing (AFP) Jan 16, 2018 - China's economy exceeded Beijing's annual growth target in 2017, analysts said in an AFP survey, overcoming the government's battles against massive debt and pollution-spewing factories.
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Beijing (AFP) Jan 16, 2018 - China on Tuesday dismissed an international meeting on the North Korean nuclear crisis hosted by Canada and the United States as illegitimate, as major players like Beijing were not present.
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Manila (AFP) Jan 16, 2018 - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday denied reports his chief aide had improperly intervened in the acquisition of two new warships for $308 million, just weeks after the country's navy chief was sacked for jeopardising the deal.
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Strasbourg, France (AFP) Jan 16, 2018 - The EU said Tuesday it is carefully assessing Donald Trump's statement on the Iran nuclear deal after the US leader set a 120-day deadline for fixing disastrous flaws in the landmark 2015 accord.
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Strasbourg, France (AFP) Jan 16, 2018 - European Union leaders love-bombed Britain on Tuesday, holding the door open for it to change its mind about ending its four-decade membership of the bloc next year.
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Washington (AFP) Jan 16, 2018 - US counterintelligence officials warned President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner in early 2017 that Chinese-American businesswoman Wendi Deng Murdoch might be using their friendship to benefit Chinese government interests, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Washington (AFP) Jan 16, 2018 - US authorities said Tuesday they had arrested a former CIA agent, Hong Kong resident Jerry Chun Shing Lee, after discovering he had an unauthorized notebook that had the identities of undercover US spies.
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Stoenesti, Romania (AFP) Jan 16, 2018 - One of the most important strategic sites in Europe for the US military has come under threat from a rather unexpected enemy: a flock of sheep.
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Washington (UPI) Jan 16, 2018 - The U.S. Air Force has awarded $172 million to Northrop Grumman to manage the payload technology for a battlefield communications system.
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New Delhi (AFP) Jan 16, 2018 - India will buy more than 160,000 guns worth $553 million for troops on its disputed, high-altitude borders, the defence ministry said Tuesday.
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