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  Washington (AFP) Oct 4, 2017 Pentagon chief Jim Mattis tried to clear up doubts about the US administration's North Korea strategy Tuesday, backing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's effort to find a diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff. Defense Secretary Mattis was speaking two days after President Donald Trump appeared to undermine his top diplomat by saying Tillerson was "wasting his time" by maintaining contacts with Kim Jong-Un's regime. State Department officials insist Trump was not criticizing Tillerson, but ... read more |
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Nuclear accord with Iran in US interest: MattisWashington (AFP) Oct 3, 2017 US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday that President Donald Trump should consider sticking with the nuclear accord with Iran, which he said is in the US national interest. ... more 
Trump weighs 'decertifying' Iran nuclear dealWashington (AFP) Oct 4, 2017 President Donald Trump has railed against a deal to curb Iran's nuclear program, but officials say that far from scrapping it, he is considering kicking the decision to Congress. ... more  
Afghanistan pull-out would be 'to our ultimate peril': MattisWashington (AFP) Oct 3, 2017 US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis warned Tuesday that an American withdrawal from Afghanistan would be "to our ultimate peril," as he briefed Congress on plans to increase US troop levels. ... more  
Israeli defence minister says Syria's Assad 'victorious'Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 3, 2017 Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that President Bashar al-Assad has been "victorious" in Syria's civil war and was now being courted by former enemies. ... more |
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Jalal Talabani: veteran Kurdish leader and Iraqi presidentBaghdad (AFP) Oct 3, 2017 Former Iraqi president Jalal Talabani, who died Tuesday aged 83, was a charismatic leader of the Kurdish independence struggle who became Iraq's first non-Arab head of state. ... more 
Iraq forces push into IS bastion HawijaHawija, Iraq (AFP) Oct 4, 2017 Iraqi forces pushed into the Islamic State group bastion of Hawija on Wednesday, commanders said, stepping up their assault against one of the jihadists' last enclaves in the country. ... more 
Indian cross-border firing kills two in Pakistan: officialsMuzaffarabad, Pakistan (AFP) Oct 4, 2017 Two civilians were killed and two others were wounded after Indian troops fired into Pakistani Kashmir Wednesday, in the latest cross-border violence between the nuclear-armed neighbours. ... more 
Will anti-nuclear campaigners win Nobel Peace Prize?Oslo (AFP) Oct 4, 2017 As the North Korean crisis rekindles the Cold War-era threat of nuclear catastrophe, this year's Nobel Peace Prize could honour efforts to limit the spread of atomic weapons, several experts suggest. ... more  
Launch Vehicle and Missile Ascent TrajectoriesBethesda, MD (SPX) Oct 03, 2017 Almost all launch vehicles and large missiles liftoff from the ground in the vertical direction and continue toward some objective. For a space launch system the objective is orbit, achieved by usin ... more 
New Zealand opens first rocket launch siteWellington NZ (XNA) Sep 29, 2017 New Zealand Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce on Wednesday opened New Zealand's first orbital launch site, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, on the Mahia Peninsula on the North Island's east coa ... more |
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 Spacepath Communications Acquires Tango Wave  
Asia-Pacific nation orders Harris communications gear, networkWashington (UPI) Oct 3, 2017 Harris Corporation will develop and deliver an integrated tactical communications network to an unidentified country in the Asia-Pacific region, the company announced this week. ... more 
Arianespace to launch COSMO-SkyMed satellites manufactured by ThalesLyon, France (SPX) Oct 02, 2017 Thales Alenia Space, joint-venture between Thales and Leonardo, and Arianespace has signed a launch contract for two COSMO-SkyMed Second-Generation (CSG) satellites manufactured for the Italian Spac ... more 
Ariane 5 rocket puts satellites into orbit on second attemptCayenne (AFP) Sept 30, 2017 An Ariane 5 rocket put two commercial satellites into orbit after an initial attempt was aborted earlier this month, operator Arianespace said early Saturday. ... more  
Kymeta Government Solutions Receives Two NASA SBIR Grant AwardsRedmond WA (SPX) Sep 26, 2017 Kymeta-the company delivering on the promise of global, mobile connectivity-announced that its Government Solutions division has been awarded two grants via the NASA SBIR (Small Business Innovation ... more |
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  Sydney (AFP) Oct 3, 2017 
Australia's new frigates will be equipped with a long-range missile defence system to counter threats from rogue states like North Korea, officials announced Tuesday.
Canberra in May revealed details of a massive shipbuilding strategy, its largest peacetime naval investment, including 12 new submarines and 12 offshore patrol vessels.
The Aus$89 billion (US$70 billion) package to shore up ... more Dallas TX (SPX) Sep 26, 2017PAC-3 MSE Test Successful from Remote Launcher  Riyadh (AFP) Sept 24, 2017Saudi intercepts Yemen rebel missile  Washington (UPI) Sep 25, 2017Lockheed Martin to replace USS Fitzgerald's SPY-1D AEGIS radar |
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 Taipei (AFP) Oct 1, 2017 
Three naval personnel have been jailed for up to two years for mistakenly launching a missile towards China that killed one person and triggered a stern response from Beijing last year.
They were convicted of causing death by negligence while on duty over the misfiring of the Hsiung-feng III (Brave Wind) supersonic missile, the district court in the southern city of Kaohsiung announced over ... more Ankara (AFP) Sept 28, 2017Putin in Turkey for talks on weapons deal, Syria  Washington (UPI) Sep 27, 2017Navy contracts Orbital ATK for additional AARGM missiles  Washington (UPI) Sep 25, 2017Irish Army conducts exercises with RBS 70 surface-to-air missiles |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2017  BAE Systems engineers, with students from Cranfield University, have come up with a new technology concept that uses unmanned aerial vehicles.
Called Adaptable UAVs, the concept involves unmanned aerial vehicles that can alternate between fixed-wing and rotary flight on the same mission for greater speed and versatility.
The aircraft would feature adaptive flight control and adva ... more Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2017IAI unmanned helo performs proof-of-concept demo  Dubai (AFP) Sept 25, 2017Driverless hover-taxi makes first 'concept' flight in Dubai  New Delhi (AFP) Sept 24, 2017Drones, Fighter jets on table as Mattis visits key ally India |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 3, 2017 
Harris Corporation will develop and deliver an integrated tactical communications network to an unidentified country in the Asia-Pacific region, the company announced this week.
The order, received in the first quarter of the Harris' 2018 fiscal year, is worth $260 million and is part of the country's modernization program, the Melbourne, Fla.-based company said in a news release Monday ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 21, 201782nd Airborne tests in-flight communication system for paratroopers  London, UK (SPX) Sep 12, 2017Spectra Airbus SlingShot Partnership Extension  Paris (SPX) Sep 12, 2017Airbus prepares the future European Governmental Satellite Communications programme |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 27, 2017  Raytheon has been awarded a $450 million contract for engineering changes and development of the Small Diameter Bomb II, an update for the U.S. Air Force.
The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is for design, development, integration, test and production engineering for changes to the SDB.
Work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz., and is expected to be fin ... more Washington (UPI) Sep 26, 2017African country orders Elbit defense electronic systems  Washington (UPI) Sep 20, 2017Meggitt touts small arms training systems Washington (UPI) Sep 13, 2017Norway signs deal with Saab for Carl-Gustaf ammunition |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 3, 2017 
Leonardo is opening a new engineering site in Western Australia through its Selex ES Australia Pty Ltd subsidiary, increasing its presence in the country.
The facility, located in Rockingham, South of Perth, will be the regional hub for engineering, integration, installation and through-life support. The site's proximity to the Hendersen shipyards and Garden Island will allow Leonardo t ... more Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2017BAE Systems Australia to support Indigenous companies  Washington (UPI) Sep 19, 2017Saab eyes possible U.S. factory location  London (AFP) Sept 19, 2017Britain suspends Myanmar training; Britain, Saudi Arabia sign military deal |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 29, 2017  A Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker on Friday was found guilty of "desecrating" the Chinese and Hong Kong flags by turning them upside down in parliament, but escaped a prison sentence.
Cheng Chung-tai upended small Chinese and Hong Kong flags that some pro-Beijing legislators had displayed on their desks in the legislative assembly last October.
The incident happened during a feisty sess ... more Washington (AFP) Sept 28, 2017Seesaw US-China ties on an upswing as Trump plans trip  Washington (AFP) Sept 29, 2017Trump accepts Duterte's ASEAN summit invite after all  Brussels (AFP) Oct 2, 201740,000 troops in Russian war games: US general |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 03, 2017 
A new two-dimensional film, made of polymers and nanoparticles and developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), can direct two different non-mixing liquids into a variety of exotic architectures. This finding could lead to soft robotics, liquid circuitry, shape-shifting fluids, and a host of new materials that use soft, rather than ... more Washington DC (SPX) Sep 27, 2017Creative use of noise brings bio-inspired electronic improvement  Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Sep 27, 2017Assembly of nanoparticles proceeds like a zipper  Tomsk, Russia (SPX) Sep 25, 2017Application of air-sensitive semiconductors in nanoelectronics |
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 Karbala, Iraq (AFP) Oct 1, 2017  Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslim pilgrims gathered in the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala on Sunday for ceremonies marking the seventh-century killing of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson.
Some 25,000 members of the security forces were deployed to protect the pilgrims, who in the past have faced attacks from Sunni extremists including the Islamic State group.
This year's ceremonies wer ... moreBaghdad (AFP) Sept 29, 2017Iraq forces attack IS-held town of Hawija  Baghdad (AFP) Oct 2, 2017Iraq forces claim recapture of IS-held areas near Hawija  Ramadi, Iraq (AFP) Sept 27, 2017Iraq says defeats IS infiltration near Ramadi |
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 Oslo (AFP) Oct 4, 2017 
As the North Korean crisis rekindles the Cold War-era threat of nuclear catastrophe, this year's Nobel Peace Prize could honour efforts to limit the spread of atomic weapons, several experts suggest.
With tensions between Washington and Pyongyang sending the risk of a nuclear confrontation soaring, the highlight of the Nobel awards season will be announced in Oslo on Friday at 11:00 am (0900 ... moreWashington (AFP) Oct 1, 2017Negotiating with North Korea a waste of time: Trump  Washington (AFP) Oct 2, 2017US and North Korea: To talk or not to talk?  Beijing (AFP) Sept 28, 2017N. Korean firms in China ordered to close by January |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 30, 2017 
China's manufacturing activity accelerated for a second straight month in September, official figures showed Saturday, although an independent indicator was less positive about the world's second largest economy.
The sector expanded at its fastest pace since 2012 after rebounding in August, official data showed.
"The indicator showed a steady upward trend in the manufacturing sector," n ... more Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 3, 2017$37.7 million bowl sets Chinese ceramic auction record  Strasbourg, France (AFP) Oct 3, 2017EU targets China with tough rules on cheap imports  Hong Kong, China (AFP) Oct 1, 2017Macau casino scion rolls dice on Japan venture |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 3, 2017 
Scientists have discovered a surprising new source of radioactive cesium some 60 miles from the Fukushima nuclear plant that was damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
A team of researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and Japan's Kanazawa University found unusually high levels of radioactive cesium-137 in the groundwater beneath several beaches. / ... more Mexico City (AFP) Sept 30, 2017Signs of corruption emerge from rubble of Mexico quake  Cox'S Bazar, Bangladesh (AFP) Sept 30, 2017Fear of epidemic disaster as disease stalks Rohingya camps  Comerio , Puerto Rico (AFP) Sept 29, 2017Water from a rock: Puerto Ricans cope with hurricane aftermath |
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 Adelaide, Australia (XNA) Oct 03, 2017 
China is an active member of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and is impressive in opening its space missions to other countries, said Simonetta Di Pippo, Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA).
Di Pippo made the remarks when having an interview with Xinhua on Wednesday during the 68th International Astronautical Congress (IAC ... more Beijing (XNA) Oct 02, 2017Mars probe to carry 13 types of payload on 2020 mission  Beijing (XNA) Sep 22, 2017China's cargo spacecraft separates from Tiangong-2 space lab  Beijing (AFP) Sept 20, 2017Work on China's mission to Mars 'well underway' |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 3, 2017 
A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist who threw a "smelly fish sandwich" at a police officer as voters went to the polls last year pleaded not guilty to assault Tuesday.
The sandwich had been aimed at the city's then leader, Leung Chun-ying, who was on his way to vote in the September 2016 legislative election, but it missed and hit the officer.
Defendant Avery Ng of the League of Social D ... more Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 1, 2017Hong Kong migrant mothers sing for their distant children  Beijing (AFP) Sept 29, 2017China's Communist Party expels top member ahead of congress  Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 4, 2017The making of Hong Kong's famous 'fire dragon' |
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 Beirut (AFP) Oct 3, 2017  The Islamic State group is under attack across the remaining parts of its self-proclaimed caliphate, but what happens to its thousands of fighters as their group loses grip on territory?
Facing multiple offensives, the jihadist group has lost the Libyan city of Sirte, Iraq's Mosul and Ramadi, and is now on the verge of being ousted from its former Syrian stronghold Raqa.
At its peak IS c ... more Manila (AFP) Oct 2, 2017US, Philippine troops launch new counter-terror drills  Moscow (AFP) Sept 27, 2017Russian women desperately seek daughters who joined IS  Washington (AFP) Sept 29, 2017US says on track to destroy chemical weapons by 2023 |
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 White Sands Missile Range NM (SPX) Sep 21, 2017 
A Lockheed Martin prototype laser weapon system proved that an advanced system of sensors, software and specialized optics can deliver decisive lethality against unmanned aerial vehicle threats.
In tests conducted with the U.S. Army's Space and Missile Defense Command in August, the 30-kilowatt class ATHENA (Advanced Test High Energy Asset) system brought down five 10.8' wingspan Outlaw un ... more Washington (UPI) Sep 20, 2017ATHENA laser testbed system successfully shoots down drones  Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2017DOD to invest $17M on laser weapons research in New Mexico  Washington DC (AFNS) Jul 25, 2017'Eyes in space' and more powerful lasers will enhance US Army's arsenal |
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