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Two Russians convicted of treason over missile dataSaint Petersburg (AFP) June 20, 2012 Russia on Wednesday sentenced two professors from an engineering university to 12.5 and 12 years for handing over information about a new intercontinental missile to China, an official said. "Yevgeny Afanasyev was sentenced to 12.5 years for treason, and Svyatoslav Bobyshev to 12 years in a high-security penal colony for complicity in treason", a court official told AFP. The two men, both professors at the Voyenmekh Baltic State Technical University in Russia's second city of Saint Petersburg, w ... read more |
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  Iran, world powers stuck in nuclear impasse: analysts Talks between world powers and Iran to defuse the Iranian nuclear crisis face a tough future after the sides failed to edge any closer to a breakthrough at a crunch meeting in Moscow, analysts said. ... more | .. |
  Hu and Obama meet on sidelines of G20 talks US President Barack Obama on Tuesday lobbied President Hu Jintao of China, a veto-wielding permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, on efforts to end the bloodshed in Syria. ... more | .. |
  Somali Islamists pounded by African troops The Islamist militants of al-Shabaab, like their al-Qaida allies in nearby Yemen, are being driven out of towns they've held for years by Western-backed regional forces who are closing on the southern port city of Kismayu, al-Shabaab's last big stronghold and its financial hub. ... more | .. |
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  Portuguese armor vehicle to test in Brazil Portuguese manufacturer Pinhol plans to test its new four-wheel explosive-resistant armored vehicle in Brazil with a view to developing a long-term production and marketing partnership in the Caribbean and Latin American region. ... more | .. |
  Soldiers, rebels die in Shan state clashes A dozen Myanmar soldiers have died in clashes with the Kachin Independence Army in Myanmar's northern Shan state, unconfirmed reports said. ... more | .. |
  Iraqi Kurd editor of pro-Israel magazine missing An Iraqi Kurdish editor of a magazine that advocates relations between the Kurdistan region and Israel has been missing for more than 10 days, a journalist and a media rights group said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 '30 Qaeda dead' in Yemen raids, anti-West plot foiled Yemeni security forces carried out air strikes in which 30 suspected Al-Qaeda militants were reported killed in the south of the country on Wednesday and said they foiled a plot to attack embassies. ... more |
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  U.S. Navy, Northrop Grumman Complete X-47B Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base, Move Second Unmanned Aircraft to East Coast The first major phase of flight testing the X-47 B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator aircraft came to a successful conclusion on May 15 when Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy wrapped u ... more | .. |
  2nd Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Successfully Completes 1st Flight Boeing reports the successful de-orbit and landing of the second X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) for the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office. The X-37B landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5 ... more | .. |
 X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle lands at Vandenberg The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), the Air Force's unmanned, reusable space plane, landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5:48 a.m. (PDT) June 16. OTV-2, which launched from Cape Canaveral ... more | .. |
  Taliban suicide attack hits NATO, kills 21 A Taliban suicide bomber on a motorbike rammed an Afghan-NATO patrol in the town of Khost on Wednesday, killing 21 people, including three US soldiers, officials said. ... more |
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 Israel says raid kills Gazan behind Egypt border attack Israeli air strikes on Wednesday killed a Gaza teenager and a militant who the army said was a "global jihad" operative behind a deadly ambush on Israel's border with Egypt. ... more | .. |
 Drought threatens harvest in N. Korea: expert A severe drought is expected to worsen serious food shortages in North Korea, a South Korean expert said Wednesday, as the UN food agency reported that three million people urgently need food aid. ... more | .. |
 Obama: China, Russia know dangers of Syrian civil war US President Barack Obama on Tuesday said Russia and China understood the dangers of a Syrian civil war but had not yet "signed on" to a plan to prod President Bashar al-Assad from power. ... more | .. |
 US, New Zealand sign defense cooperation accord The United States and New Zealand signed an agreement to expand defense cooperation Tuesday but the deal does not alter Auckland's longstanding ban on port visits by nuclear-armed American warships, officials said. ... more |
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Climate change increases risk of successive natural hazards in the Himalayas
GMV teams up with +Atlantic CoLAB in AIR4Health project to enhance public health forecasting
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  Boeing FAB-T Demonstrates Communications with On-orbit AEHF Satellite Boeing has demonstrated end-to-end communication using a terminal from the Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) system and the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Awarded ICBM Cryptography Air Force Contract The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a three-year, $108 million contract to develop and implement cryptography upgrades as part of the intercontinental ballistic missile cryptography upgr ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Completes Environmental Testing on Second US Navy Satellite Lockheed Martin has completed thermal vacuum testing of the U.S. Navy's second Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite, designated MUOS-2. Completion of this major program milestone validates ... more | .. |
 Yemen: Retreating al-Qaida takes revenge The assassination of one of Yemen's top military commanders, presumably by al-Qaida in retaliation for a government offensive, suggests the organization is far from crushed despite growing U.S. involvement in the conflict. ... more |
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 Air Force spy planes facing postwar cut The U.S. Air Force plans to cut back on the number of Hawker Beechcraft's MC-12 spy planes it wants to operate after the drawdown from Afghanistan and Iraq, official data indicated. ... more | .. |
 Saudis 'boost German tank buy to 600-800' Saudi Arabia is reported to be seeking 600-800 Leopard 2A7+ main battle tanks made by Germany's Krauss-Maffei Wegmann worth around $12.6 billion, rather than the 270 originally envisaged in 2011. ... more | .. |
  Embraer ups components output in Portugal Brazilian aviation and defense manufacturer Embraer is expanding components manufacturing in Portugal as part of a global strategy to compete in different international markets. ... more | .. |
 Iraq shootings, bombing kill six Shootings and a bombing killed six people in Iraq on Tuesday, including four police in the main northern city of Mosul, security and medical officials said. ... more |
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World awaits Trump tariff deadline on Canada, Mexico and China
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 UN urges answers on US drone attacks, targeted killings A UN expert on Tuesday urged Washington to clarify its rules on hunting Taliban and other suspects amid a "dramatic increase" in the use of drone attacks. ... more | .. |
 Russian ship halted over Syria arms claims A Russian ship allegedly carrying attack helicopters and missiles destined for Syria has stopped off the Scottish coast after its British insurer withdrew cover for the vessel. ... more | .. |
 Ahmadinejad courts leftist Latin support in Bolivia Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stopped in Bolivia Tuesday en route to a summit in Brazil, to court support from another leftist Latin American nation which has tense ties with the United States. ... more | .. |
 Iran, world powers fail to reach Moscow breakthrough Iran and world powers Tuesday failed to narrow differences over the Iranian nuclear drive after bruising talks in Moscow held amid threats of a crippling oil embargo or even military action against Tehran. ... more |
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 Russia plans to send three naval ships to Syria: US The US military said Tuesday that Russia is preparing to deploy three naval ships to Syria for a mission that Moscow says is purely designed to ferry supplies to its base at the port of Tartus. ... more | .. |
 Suicide attacks on Afghan, NATO bases in Kandahar Eleven Taliban attackers struck two Afghan and NATO bases in Kandahar province on Tuesday, while a NATO soldier was also killed in the troubled south, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Gaza rockets pound Israel after air strikes kill 6 Gaza militants pounded Israel with rockets on Tuesday after six Palestinians were killed and five others injured in a series of air strikes across the coastal strip. ... more | .. |
  ORS-1 team gains improved link with mission partners It's often difficult for organizations to justify travel expenses, especially in today's budget-conscious environment, but after reporting the results of their recent trip to Fort Gordon, Ga., comma ... more |
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