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  Sydney (AFP) June 26, 2018 Australia will invest Aus$7 billion (US$5.2 billion) to develop and buy high-tech US drones for joint military operations and to monitor waters including the South China Sea, it said Tuesday. Canberra has been embarking on its largest peacetime naval investment through a massive shipbuilding strategy that includes new submarines, offshore patrol vessels and frigates to shore up its defence capabilities. As part of this, the government will spend Aus$1.4 billion to buy the first of six MQ-4C Trit ... read more |
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SpaceX's new rocket scores big satellite launch contractWashington (Sputnik) Jun 25, 2018 lon Musk's SpaceX just won a major $130 million contract to launch a US Air Force satellite into orbit, the military branch announced Friday. The contract, which is the fifth awarded under the ... more  
US defence chief visits China as tensions simmerBeijing (AFP) June 26, 2018 US Defense Secretary James Mattis arrived in Beijing on his first ever visit to China on Tuesday, aiming to find room for military cooperation as security tensions between the two superpowers edge higher. ... more 
NATO chief congratulates Erdogan on Turkey election winLuxembourg (AFP) June 25, 2018 NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Monday congratulated Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his re-election, but stressed the alliance was founded on "core values" of democracy, rights and rule of law. ... more 
Nine EU countries sign up for European military intervention planLuxembourg (AFP) June 25, 2018 Nine EU countries on Monday signed up to a French plan for a European defence intervention group, including Britain which backs the measure as a way to maintain strong security ties with the bloc after Brexit. ... more |
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Taiwan's Tsai urges world to stand up to ChinaTaipei (AFP) June 25, 2018 Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen called on the international community to "constrain" China by standing up for freedoms, casting her island's giant neighbour as a global threat to democracy. ... more  
BAE to manufacture amphibious assault vehicles for TaiwanWashington (UPI) Jun 25, 2018 BAE Systems has been awarded a contract for amphibious assault vehicles as part of a foreign military sale for Taiwan. ... more  
Lockheed wins more than $1 billion for F-16 productionWashington (UPI) Jun 25, 2018 Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract for F-16 production for the kingdom of Bahrain. ... more  
Israeli missiles strike near Damascus airport: Syrian state mediaDamascus (AFP) June 26, 2018 Two Israeli missiles struck targets near Damascus airport early Tuesday, Syrian state media said, while a monitoring group said they hit arms depots for Hezbollah. ... more  
Iraqis fill the Mosul airwaves after IS radio silenceMosul, Iraq (AFP) June 22, 2018 During the Islamic State group's rule in Mosul, radio stations were banned and replaced with broadcasts of jihadist propaganda. Today, young Iraqis are filling the city's airwaves. ... more |
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Hundreds protest Turkish strikes in Iraqi KurdistanQardiah, Irak (AFP) June 22, 2018 Hundreds of Iraqi Kurds marched Friday to protest Turkish strikes against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) after Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara would press an operation against its bases. ... more  |
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IS threatens to execute 6 Iraqis unless women prisoners freedBaghdad (AFP) June 23, 2018 The Islamic State group on Saturday threatened to execute within three days six Iraqi men it said it is holding, unless authorities in Baghdad release Sunni Muslim female prisoners. ... more 
Iraq says it killed 45 IS jihadists in Syria strikeBaghdad (AFP) June 23, 2018 Iraq said Saturday it had killed 45 jihadists from the Islamic State group, including senior members, in an air strike in eastern Syria, the second such operation in less than a month. ... more 
Saudi-led coalition says killed 8 Hezbollah fighters in YemenRiyadh (AFP) June 25, 2018 The Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen on Monday said its forces killed eight members of Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah in an air strike in northern Yemen, near the Saudi border. ... more  
US suspending more training exercises with S. Korea: PentagonWashington (AFP) June 23, 2018 The US and South Korea have agreed to indefinitely suspend two exchange program training exercises, to support diplomatic negotiations with North Korea, the Pentagon said Friday. ... more 
Despite summit, N.Korea still a nuclear threat, says TrumpWashington (AFP) June 23, 2018 US President Donald Trump on Friday cited "an unusual and extraordinary threat" from North Korea's nuclear arsenal to extend sanctions on Kim Jong Un's regime, despite touting the success of a historic summit earlier this month. ... more |
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 Riyadh (AFP) June 24, 2018 
Saudi air defences intercepted two missiles over Riyadh on Sunday that had been fired from rebel-held territory in neighbouring Yemen, state media reported, after multiple explosions were heard in the city.
Debris from the missiles scattered over residential areas of the capital without causing casualties, a Riyadh-led military coalition fighting the Huthi rebels said in a statement released ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 
Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control has been awarded a contract for maintenance of Army tactical guided missiles and launch assembly service by the U.S. Army.
The $364 million firm-fixed-price domestic and foreign military sales contract was announced on Thursday by the Department of Defense. It also covers tactical missile sales to Romania.
The Army Tactical Missile System, ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 
Researchers at MIT, who last year designed a tiny computer chip tailored to help honeybee-sized drones navigate, have now shrunk their chip design even further, in both size and power consumption.
The team, co-led by Vivienne Sze, associate professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and Sertac Karaman, the Class of 1948 Career Development Associate ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Jun 14, 2018 
Industrial revolutions leave no sector or industry untouched, and the fourth industrial revolution is no different. We are witnessing the rapid transformation that's blurring the line between the physical and digital worlds through artificial intelligence, machine to machine communications, and the Internet of Things-technologies that are touching every aspect of our lives. For the government an ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 
DARPA's Ground X-Vehicle Technologies (GXV-T) program aims to improve mobility, survivability, safety, and effectiveness of future combat vehicles without piling on armor. Several Phase 2 contract awardees recently demonstrated advances on a variety of potentially groundbreaking technologies to meet the program's goals.
"We're looking at how to enhance survivability by buttoning up the coc ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 
General Dynamics OTS has been awarded a foreign sales contract to produce missiles and warheads, the Department of Defense announced.
The $149 million modification to a previous contract covers procurement of various quantities of M151, M274, M257, M278, M156, M264, M278, and WTU-1/B rockets, warheads, vehicle motors and associated components. Buyers include the governments of Saudi Ara ... more |
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 Rotterdam, Netherlands (AFP) June 21, 2018  The United States will continue to show its commitment to NATO, a senior US Army commander said Thursday as a fresh batch of military helicopters arrived in Europe's largest port to bolster ongoing operations.
Rotterdam harbour on Wednesday saw the offloading of some 60 US Army Black Hawk and Chinook troop transport helicopters, belonging to the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade based out of Fort ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new technique to squeeze infrared light into ultra-confined spaces, generating an intense, nanoscale antenna that could be used to detect single biomolecules.
The researchers harnessed the power of polaritons, particles that blur the distinction between light and matter. This ultra ... more |
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 Mosul, Iraq (AFP) June 22, 2018  During the Islamic State group's rule in Mosul, radio stations were banned and replaced with broadcasts of jihadist propaganda. Today, young Iraqis are filling the city's airwaves.
One budding presenter is Nour Tai, who at 16 years old faces the microphone with a confident tone and a professional style.
She hosts a weekly programme on One FM, a Mosul station launched in February that bro ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) June 24, 2018  Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned Sunday that failure to save the nuclear deal after the exit of the United States would be "very dangerous" for Tehran.
The United States announced in May that it was withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal and reimposing sanctions that would hit international businesses working in the Islamic republic.
The other parties to the deal - Br ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) June 25, 2018 
The European Union and China pledged on Monday to strengthen a rules-based international trading system amid US protectionism, although the EU highlighted its concerns about Beijing's own restrictive market practices.
Officials on both sides pledged to strengthen the World Trade Organization, announcing a plan to cooperate on updating the body which has come under blistering criticism from ... more |
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 Rome (AFP) June 24, 2018  NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Sunday the alliance was prepared to help out in troubled Libya as it grapples with a migrant crisis but warned there were no military solutions.
Speaking to Italian daily La Repubblica, Stoltenberg said: "NATO is ready to help Libya construct its security institutions".
NATO experts were already "in contact with Libya authorities to see how to assist them ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 07, 2018 
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) confirmed that one of its institutes Monday successfully tracked and received imaging data from the newly-launched Earth observation satellite Gaofen-6.
The Aerospace Information Research Institute said the Miyun station of China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station received the first batch of observation data from the Gaofen-6 satellite. There was ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) June 25, 2018 
Police have dispersed military veterans who had demonstrated in an eastern Chinese city to protest the alleged beating of elderly ex-soldiers demanding better pensions, witnesses told AFP on Monday.
The demonstrations highlighted the years-long struggle among former soldiers of the world's biggest standing army to get better benefits, posing a headache for the country's Communist leadership. ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) June 23, 2018 
The Islamic State group on Saturday threatened to execute within three days six Iraqi men it said it is holding, unless authorities in Baghdad release Sunni Muslim female prisoners.
The threat came in a video released by the jihadists' Amaq propaganda agency, showing six men, their faces covered in bruises.
IS said the men were abducted members of the Iraqi police and the Hashed al-Shaab ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 13, 2018 
A company affiliated with the Russian space agency Roscosmos is reportedly moving to develop a powerful new laser capable of evaporating targets in orbit for the benefit of all mankind.
Researchers at the Scientific and Industrial Corporation 'Precision Instrument Systems' (NPK SPP), a subsidiary of Roscosmos, are developing a new technology which would allow for the vaporizing of potentia ... more |
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