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  Beijing (AFP) March 5, 2018 China announced on Monday an 8.1 percent defence budget increase for 2018, giving a boost to the modernisation of the world's largest military after spending slowed in the previous two years. Beijing will splash out 1.11 trillion yuan ($175 billion) on its military, according to a budget report presented before the opening session of the annual National People's Congress. "We will stick to the Chinese path in strengthening our armed forces, advance all aspects of military training and war prepar ... read more |
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Lockheed Martin tapped to speed up AEGIS systemWashington (UPI) Mar 5, 2018 Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy in support of the AEGIS combat system. ... more  
Iran accord failure would be 'great loss': IAEA chiefVienna (AFP) March 5, 2018 The failure of the 2015 accord between Iran and world powers to restrict Tehran's nuclear programme would be a "great loss", the head of the UN's atomic watchdog said Monday. ... more 
Two Six Labs to support SIGMA anti-nuclear terrorism programWashington (UPI) Mar 2, 2018 Two Six Labs LLC has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to support the SIGMA project, aimed at deterring nuclear terrorism. ... more 
French foreign minister holds tense talks in TehranTehran (AFP) March 5, 2018 French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian faced a tricky reception in Tehran on Monday as he pushed for curbs to Iran's ballistic missile programme in a bid to preserve its historic nuclear deal. ... more |
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A quadrillionth of a second in slow motionMunich, Germany (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 Many chemical processes run so fast that they are only roughly understood. To clarify these processes, a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now developed a methodology with a res ... more  
Russia's Energomash tests RD-180 engine made for US Atlas rocketMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 01, 2018 Tests of a Russian RD-180 liquid-fuel rocket engine have been carried out in the Science and Test Complex of Russia's NPO Energomash, the company said Wednesday in a statement. "According to t ... more  
Iridium Certus readies for takeoff with aviation service providersMcLean VA (SPX) Mar 05, 2018 Iridium Communications Inc. reports that Honeywell Aerospace, SKYTRAC, Avitek and Navicom Aviation are the first Iridium Certus service providers to be selected for the aviation industry. As I ... more 
Action plan approved for next Ariane 5 launchesParis (ESA) Mar 03, 2018 After the release of the conclusions of the Ariane VA241 Independent Enquiry Commission on 22 February, the findings and recommendations were formally presented to a Steering Board on 28 February. T ... more  
Some SDF forces quit anti-IS ops to fight Turks: PentagonWashington (AFP) March 5, 2018 US-backed Kurdish fighters in northern Syria are heading to the Turkish-assaulted Kurdish enclave of Afrin, leading to an "operational pause" in their operations against the Islamic State group, the Pentagon said Monday. ... more |
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 Syria's Eastern Ghouta: two weeks under attack 
Turkey strikes kill 19 civilians in Syria's Afrin: monitorBeirut (AFP) March 5, 2018 Turkish air strikes on Monday killed 19 civilians including two children in northwestern Syria's Kurdish enclave of Afrin, a monitor said. ... more  |
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Iraq orders seizure of assets of Saddam-era officialsBaghdad (AFP) March 5, 2018 Iraq has ordered the seizure of assets that belonged to executed dictator Saddam Hussein and more than 4,200 officials from his former regime, an official statement said Monday. ... more 
NATO chief says alliance troops staying in IraqBaghdad (AFP) March 5, 2018 NATO forces are staying in Iraq at the country's request, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said during a rare visit Monday to Baghdad after parliament called for a foreign troop pullout. ... more  
New US advisors hope to give Afghan soldiers vital boostWashington (AFP) March 4, 2018 A brigade of seasoned American soldiers has arrived in Afghanistan in recent days on a much-trumpeted mission to offer a new type of training - as well as motivation - to beleaguered Afghan partners. ... more  
4 soldiers, 10 jihadists killed in Egypt Sinai campaignCairo (AFP) March 4, 2018 Egypt's military said on Sunday four soldiers and 10 jihadists were killed in a military operation in Sinai against Islamic State group jihadists. ... more 
N. Korea lambasts US for attatching preconditions for talksSeoul (AFP) March 3, 2018 North Korea on Saturday lambasted the US for attaching preconditions to any dialogue between the states, as Seoul prepares to send an envoy to Pyongyang to help open talks on easing the nuclear stand-off on the peninsula. ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 03, 2018 
Russia's latest missiles and other new types of weaponry are unmatched anywhere in the world and capable of nullifying the effectiveness of the United States' global missile defense, which Washington has started deploying since its withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty back in 2002, experts told Sputnik.
While addressing the parliament earlier in the day, Russian President Vlad ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 28, 2018 
The United States and three European allies condemned Iran on Tuesday after the United Nations found Tehran had violated the arms embargo on Yemen by failing to block supplies of missiles and drones to Huthi rebels.
Britain, France, Germany and the United States urged Iran to "immediately cease all activities that are inconsistent or would violate" the UN resolution that established the arms ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 28, 2018 
Designed to infiltrate far into an enemy's territory, the new system will carry both guided and unguided munitions.
Russia is working on a long-range unmanned strike system, Zvezda, the official television channel of the Russian Ministry of Defense, has learned.
Speaking to the television channel, Alexander Nemov, deputy chief of the research department at the 30th Central Scientific ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Mar 02, 2018 
Airbus has launched near real-time satellite imagery capabilities together with its 24/7 Emergency Image Delivery Service to aid those facing emergency situations. By leveraging the Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) polar ground station in Svalbard, Norway, Pleiades and SPOT constellation images are now retrieved at every orbit, resulting in ultra-fast image deliveries after collection, anywhe ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 28, 2018 
The U.S. Army has awarded Olin Corp. a contract for several sizes of small arms ammunition.
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $51.1 million and modifies a previous contract award.
The contract taps the Winchester Division of the Olin Corporation, out of Illinois, to produce 5.56mm, 7.62mm, and .50 caliber ammunition cartridges for th ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 5, 2018  China announced on Monday an 8.1 percent defence budget increase for 2018, giving a boost to the modernisation of the world's largest military after spending slowed in the previous two years.
Beijing will splash out 1.11 trillion yuan ($175 billion) on its military, according to a budget report presented before the opening session of the annual National People's Congress.
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 Aboard The Uss Carl Vinson (AFP) March 5, 2018  A US aircraft carrier arrived in Vietnam on Monday for the first time since the end of the war, as the former foes bolster military ties in the face of Beijing's build-up in the disputed South China Sea.
The USS Carl Vinson will make a four-day port call to the central city of Danang for a highly symbolic trip that will include a visit to a centre for victims of Agent Orange, the toxic defol ... more |
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 Venice, Italy (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
From nanoscale silver to titanium dioxide for air purification, the use of nanomaterials of high commercial relevance proves to have clear benefits as it attracts investments, and raises concerns. 'Nano' sized materials (a nanometre is one millionth of a millimetre) could pose environmental and health risks under certain conditions. The uncertainties and insufficient scientific knowledge could s ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) March 5, 2018  Iraq has ordered the seizure of assets that belonged to executed dictator Saddam Hussein and more than 4,200 officials from his former regime, an official statement said Monday.
The list of ex-regime bosses was drawn up by the Iraqi agency charged with tracking down former officials from Saddam's Baath Party, and includes their relatives.
Saddam's name appeared at the top of the list an ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Feb 28, 2018 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday accused Washington of training Europeans in the use of nuclear weapons, with the aim of using them against his country.
"Nuclear disarmament is hampered by the US non-strategic nuclear weapons in Europe," Lavrov told the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.
Russia's top diplomat took particular issue with "nuclear so-called sharing ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 5, 2018 
China set its 2018 economic growth target at "around 6.5 percent" on Monday, in line with expectations but lower than the 6.9 percent increase registered last year.
The target, which is the same as last year, was presented by Premier Li Keqiang in a report for Monday's opening session of the annual National People's Congress, the rubber-stamp parliament.
The figure, along with an inflati ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) March 3, 2018 
The issues that come before the UN Security Council are the gravest to face any decision-making body - questions of war and peace, life and death.
But when world diplomats are building towards a weighty decision, almost any diplomatic tactic seems fair game, even sleight of hand.
All the envoys in endless daily meetings in the vast glass-walled tower on Turtle Bay, New York, would say ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 06, 2018 
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, the nation's largest missile maker, will launch a satellite this year to demonstrate technologies for a vast space-based communications network capable of covering every corner on the Earth, including the Arctic and Antarctica.
Zhang Zhongyang, president of the CASIC Second Academy, said engineers are assembling the satellite and plan to place it ... more |
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 Rebkong County, China (AFP) March 4, 2018 
Despite a few elbows to the face, Tsering pushed through the broil of Tibetan worshippers and lifted her bawling two-year-old over the mad crush, briefly pressing the girl's forehead to a passing sacred scroll.
Scores of monks and men heaved the enormous thangka - an image of Buddha painted on silk, rolled up in a tight cylinder while in transit - through the packed streets around Rongwo M ... more |
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 Cairo (AFP) March 4, 2018 
Egypt's military said on Sunday four soldiers and 10 jihadists were killed in a military operation in Sinai against Islamic State group jihadists.
The deaths raise military casualties to at least 16 dead, along with more than 100 jihadists, since the start of the operation on February 9, according to previous army tolls.
The army launched the campaign after Egyptian President Abdel Fatta ... more |
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 Bothell WA (SPX) Mar 02, 2018  The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $150 million contract, with options worth up to $942.8 million, for the development, manufacture and delivery of two high power laser weapon systems, including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and counter-Unmanned Aerial System (counter-UAS) capabilities, by fiscal year 2020. With the High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler with ... more |
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