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Washington (AFP) April 15, 2016 - Apple urged a federal court Friday to reject efforts to force the company to help break into an iPhone as part of a New York drug investigation.
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Washington (AFP) April 15, 2016 - Apple urged a federal court Friday to reject efforts to force the company to help break into an iPhone as part of a New York drug investigation.
Apr 15, 2016

Washington (UPI) Apr 15, 2016 - General Atomics has been awarded two separate engineering contracts to maintain the U.S. Army's MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft.
Apr 15, 2016

Washington (AFP) April 15, 2016 - The international community is not sticking to its promises to lift sanctions on Iran in the wake of the nuclear deal, the country's central bank governor said Friday.
Apr 15, 2016

Seoul (AFP) April 15, 2016 - North Korea tried and failed to test-fire what appeared to be a medium-range Musudan missile on the birthday of founding leader Kim Il-Sung Friday, a high-profile misstep after Pyongyang claimed a series of breakthroughs in its nuclear weapons programme.
Apr 15, 2016

Archbald, Pa. (UPI) Apr 15, 2016 - Lockheed Martin is to produce additional Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds for the U.S. Navy under the service's exercise of a contract option.
Apr 15, 2016

Aboard The Uss John C. Stennis (AFP) April 15, 2016 - US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter visited a warship close to flashpoint waters of the South China Sea on Friday, as Beijing reacted defiantly to an American military build-up in the area.
Apr 15, 2016

Bratislava (AFP) April 15, 2016 - Russia is more dangerous than the Islamic State group, Poland's Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski told reporters Friday during a visit to Slovakia.
Apr 15, 2016

Moscow (UPI) Apr 15, 2016 - Russian military officials successfully launched a cruise missile from the Iskander tactical ballistic missile launcher system during live fire drills in the southern part of the country.
Apr 15, 2016

Geneva (AFP) April 15, 2016 - Syria's main opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) told AFP Friday it was willing to join a transitional government with diplomats and technocrats from President Bashar al-Assad's government.
Apr 15, 2016

Baghdad (AFP) April 15, 2016 - The United Nations warned Friday that political turmoil that has repeatedly delayed efforts to change the Iraqi cabinet is a threat to the country's war against the Islamic State group.
Apr 15, 2016

Washington (AFP) April 15, 2016 - The US Army said Friday it will commission 22 women as infantry and armor officers under historic new rules allowing females to serve in ground combat roles.
Apr 15, 2016

Rochester, N.Y. (UPI) Apr 15, 2016 - The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command has given $20 million in orders for radios to modernize defense force communications.
Apr 15, 2016

Manila (AFP) April 15, 2016 - US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said he would visit a warship close to flashpoint waters of the South China Sea on Friday, as Beijing reacted defiantly to an American military build-up in the area.
Apr 15, 2016

San Francisco (AFP) April 14, 2016 - Microsoft on Thursday sued the US government, arguing that secret warrants to search people's email violate constitutional rights of Americans.
Apr 14, 2016

Manila (AFP) April 14, 2016 - The Philippines Thursday dismissed as propaganda a claim by the Islamic State group that its fighters had slaughtered nearly 100 soldiers and established a base in the mainly Muslim south where local militants are battling government forces.
Apr 14, 2016

Moscow (AFP) April 14, 2016 - Russia denied Thursday its fighter jets were engaged in reckless or provocative behaviour when they flew just metres from a US destroyer in international waters in the Baltic Sea, exacerbating tensions between the rival powers.
Apr 14, 2016