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  Washington (AFP) Jan 30, 2018 North Korea has taken fresh strides in its nuclear missile program but has not shown all the technologies needed to strike America, a US general said Tuesday, as another top official warned such a capability is just months away. Pyongyang has demonstrated its rockets are powerful enough to reach the United States, but General Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it has yet to prove that its fusing and targeting technologies can survive the stresses of ballistic missile flight ... read more |
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Trump zeroes in on North Korea, Iran threatsWashington (AFP) Jan 31, 2018 US President Donald Trump used his biggest stage Tuesday to warn of the nuclear threat from North Korea, as fears grow again in Washington that conflict may be looming. ... more  
Hawaii fires warning officer who sent missile alertWashington (AFP) Jan 30, 2018 The administrator of Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency has resigned and an officer with a track record of "poor performance" has been fired after triggering mass panic with a false alert of a ballistic missile headed for the Pacific islands, officials said Tuesday. ... more  
45th Space Wing Triad enables space-based orbital-defense capabilityCape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Jan 31, 2018 On Jan. 18, the fourth piece in the Space Based Infrared System, or SBIRS, was successfully launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, completing the SBIRS 'constellation' - a networ ... more  
Raytheon to support Stinger weapon for U.S. and foreign countriesWashington (UPI) Jan 26, 2018 Raytheon Missiles Systems has been awarded a foreign and domestic contract for services in support of the Stinger weapon system. ... more |
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L-3 awarded $8.2M for retrofits to Predator simulatorsWashington (UPI) Jan 30, 2018 The U.S. Air Force has awarded L-3 Link Simulation & Training an $8.2 million contract for retrofits on the Predator Mission Aircrew Training System simulators. ... more 
Netanyahu says Iran wants Lebanon to be 'giant missile site'Jerusalem (AFP) Jan 29, 2018 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of wanting "to turn Lebanon into one giant missile site" and warned of the consequences as he left Monday for talks in Moscow. ... more  
SpaceX CEO Sets Date for First Falcon Heavy Rocket LaunchWashington (Sputnik) Jan 28, 2018 The first flight of Falcon Heavy, the powerful rocket manufactured by the US Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) company, is planned for February 6, the company's founder and CEO Elon Musk said ... more 
Texas firm completes "tie down test flight" of suborbital SARGE RocketSpaceport America NM (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 Spaceport America, America's first purpose-built commercial spaceport, and EXOS Aerospace Systems and Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of suborbital reusable space launch vehicles based in Ca ... more 
Rocket Lab successfully circularizes orbit with new Electron kick stageAuckland, New Zealand (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 Rocket Lab, a US aerospace company with operations in New Zealand, has successfully tested a previously unannounced kick stage on the Still Testing Electron launch vehicle, using it to circularize t ... more 
Ariane 5 delivers SES-14 and Al Yah 3 to orbitKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jan 29, 2018 SES and Yahsat have confirmed that both satellites (SES-14 and Al Yah 3) have been acquired and are operating in orbit nominally, despite a trajectory deviation experienced during VA241 launch. ... more  
Navy turns to ERAPSCO for sonobuoy supportWashington (UPI) Jan 30, 2018 ERAPSCO has been awarded a contract for engineering support for the Navy's underwater active sonobuoys. ... more |
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 Russia Working On Own, 100-Use, Environmentally Friendly Rocket 
Orbital ATK joins DARPA to research hypersonic enginesWashington (UPI) Jan 24, 2018 Orbital ATK announced on Tuesday that it has been tapped by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to study the integration of turbine and hypersonic engine technologies for use in a new aircraft propulsion system. ... more 
General Atomics awarded $49M for Reaper drone software developmentWashington (UPI) Jan 29, 2018 General Atomics has been awarded a $49.3 million contract by the Air Force for software development on the MQ-9 Reaper drone. ... more  
Dutch jihadist gets six years for joining al-NusraRotterdam, Netherlands (AFP) Jan 30, 2018 A Dutch court sentenced an Islamic jihadist to six years in jail in his absence Tuesday for joining the ranks of the al-Nusra Front to fight in Iraq and Syria. ... more  |
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Amnesty says Nigerian air force killed 35 people in raidsAbuja (AFP) Jan 30, 2018 Nigerian air raids aimed at stopping herdsmen-farmer clashes killed at least 35 people in December, Amnesty International said Tuesday, describing the government's response as "unlawful". ... more  
NATO's Afghan mission backtracks after classifying Taliban dataWashington (AFP) Jan 30, 2018 The US-led NATO mission in Afghanistan admitted Tuesday it had mistakenly classified data on the Taliban that had been public, citing "a human error in labeling," and said it would no longer withhold the information. ... more 
Turkish air strikes pound Kurdish fighters in SyriaAfrin, Syria (AFP) Jan 30, 2018 Turkish air strikes pounded the Syrian border region of Afrin on Tuesday and fighting raged on two fronts as Ankara pursued its offensive against the Kurdish enclave. ... more  
Iraqis maimed in battle struggle to survive as amputeesBaghdad (AFP) Jan 31, 2018 Karrar Hassan, 25, is just one of tens of thousands of Iraqi fighters wounded battling the Islamic State group. Now disabled, he struggles to survive on a $400 pension. ... more 
Lockheed tapped by Army for 10 more THAAD interceptorsWashington (UPI) Jan 29, 2018 The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for 10 additional Lot 10 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, interceptors for the U.S. Army. ... more  
Russia doing 'absolutely nothing' to end Ukraine conflict: US envoyKiev (AFP) Jan 29, 2018 Russia has done "absolutely nothing" to end the conflict in Ukraine and Washington is deeply disappointed with Moscow's lack of progress towards a peace deal, the US special envoy to Ukraine said Monday. ... more 
National Space Defense Center transitions to 24 7 operationsSchriever AFB CO (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 Less than a year after changing the name of the Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center to the National Space Defense Center, the NSDC transitioned to 24/7 operations on January 8, markin ... more |
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Navy orders laser weapon systems from Lockheed MartinWashington (UPI) Jan 29, 2018 Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for the Surface Navy Laser Weapon System. ... more  
Taiwan holds live-fire drills as tensions with China mountHualien, Taiwan (AFP) Jan 30, 2018 Taiwanese troops Tuesday staged live-fire exercises simulating a response to an invasion, as China steppeds up pressure on the island's President Tsai Ing-wen and a row over airline routes escalated. ... more  
Data doom: 5 steps from Davos to digital dystopiaDavos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 26, 2018 Intelligent robots and all-knowing online networks threaten to drag humanity into a "totalitarian" nightmare of mind control, mass unemployment and children hooked on smartphones, experts warned at this week's Davos summit. ... more 
China tightens screws on social mediaBeijing (AFP) Jan 28, 2018 Chinese authorities have ordered a major social media platform to curb "harmful content" more effectively as they intensify oversight of online expression - even taking aim at rap music, crude cartoons, dirty jokes and celebrity gossip. ... more |
 Beijing (AFP) Jan 28, 2018  Japan's foreign minister met China's top leadership Sunday for rare diplomatic talks that ended with mutual vows to improve their chilly ties but little in the way of concrete proposals.
The world's second and third largest economies have a fraught relationship, held back by longstanding disputes over maritime claims and Japan's wartime legacy.
Taro Kono's visit to China was the first by ... more |
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 Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 
Physicists have developed a technique based on optical microscopy that can be used to create images of atoms on the nanoscale. In particular, the new method allows the imaging of quantum dots in a semiconductor chip. Together with colleagues from the University of Bochum, scientists from the University of Basel's Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute reported the findings in ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 23, 2018 
President Donald Trump begins 2018 making good on his aggressive "America First" trade agenda, with China as a primary target.
As he prepares to mingle this week with global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a traditional cheerleader of free trade, Trump has again ruffled feathers from Beijing to Berlin after imposing steep tariffs on imported washing machines and so ... more |
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 Samarra, Iraq (AFP) Jan 26, 2018 
Threading beads onto a fishing line to make a sparkling ornament, Lamia Rahim is one of dozens of Iraqi women displaced by violence who have turned to handicrafts to support their families.
"It has been some time since we were displaced and my husband can't find work," the mother-of-four told AFP.
"It was down to me to take care of the family."
Rahim, 41, is part of a local initiativ ... more |
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 Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 26, 2018 
US President Donald Trump said Friday that US-backed coalition forces had won back almost 100 percent of territory occupied by the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
"The coalition to defeat ISIS (IS) has retaken almost 100 percent of the territory once held by these killers in Iraq and Syria," Trump said in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 29, 2018  Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for the Surface Navy Laser Weapon System.
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $150 million under the terms of a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract.
The contract taps Lockheed Martin's Aculight Corp. to develop, manufacture and deliver two test units in fiscal 2020 - one uni ... more |
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