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  Brussels (AFP) July 12, 2018 US President Donald Trump Thursday hailed "tremendous progress" on defence spending commitments by NATO members, saying two days of tough talks had left the alliance "much stronger". "We made a tremendous amount of progress today," Trump said after emergency talks with fellow NATO leaders prompted by his demands for allies to boost military budgets immediately. "Everyone's agreed to substantially up their commitment - they're going to up it at levels they've never thought of before." The US ... read more |
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NATO summit in crisis over Trump spending demandsBrussels (AFP) July 12, 2018 NATO leaders held emergency talks at their summit Thursday after US President Donald Trump demanded allies immediately increase defence spending, throwing the meeting into crisis. ... more 
Trump piles pressure on NATO over defence spendingBrussels (AFP) July 12, 2018 US President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a fresh demand for NATO allies to double their defence spending target as leaders gathered for the second day of a bruising summit. ... more  
French, US armies 'very close', says French armed forces chiefParis (AFP) July 12, 2018 The French army is "very close" to the US military, which recognises its efforts in fighting jihadists in Africa, the head of the French armed forces said Thursday, after US President Donald Trump lashed out at NATO allies. ... more  
IntelsatOne FlexAir Coming This Summer for Government Aircraft OperationsMcLean, VA (SPX) Jul 12, 2018 The technology we have brought to market with our new Intelsat EpicNG high-throughput satellites is changing the way we deliver capabilities and services to our government customers. Unlike wi ... more |
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China readying for space station era: Yang LiweiBeijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2018 China is accelerating its timetable for a space station, with the core capsule expected to be launched in 2020, says Yang Liwei, director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office and the country ... more  
Russian cargo ship docks at ISS in record timeMoscow (AFP) July 10, 2018 A Russian cargo vessel took just three hours and 40 minutes to reach the International Space Station on Tuesday, Roscosmos space agency said, smashing the record flight time by two hours. ... more  
Israel plans its first moon launch in DecemberYehud, Israel (AFP) July 10, 2018 An Israeli organisation announced plans Tuesday to launch the country's first spacecraft to the moon in December, with hopes of burnishing Israel's reputation as a small nation with otherworldly high-tech ambitions. ... more
NATO invites Macedonia to start membership talksBrussels (AFP) July 11, 2018 NATO on Wednesday invited Macedonia to start talks to join the alliance after Skopje reached a deal with Greece in a long-running row over the country's name. ... more  
Canada to head up NATO training mission in IraqOttawa (AFP) July 11, 2018 Canada announced Wednesday it will assume command of a new NATO training and capacity building mission in Iraq, sending up to 250 troops, armored vehicles and four tactical helicopters to the country later this year. ... more |
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 U.S. Army to introduce new physical fitness test  
US near to lifting sanctions on ZTEWashington (AFP) July 11, 2018 Chinese smartphone maker ZTE has taken one of the final steps needed to escape the severe sanctions that brought the company to brink of collapse, the US Commerce Department said Wednesday. ... more  |
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The online battle for the truthParis (AFP) July 12, 2018 False information is saturating political debate worldwide and undermining an already weak level of trust in the media and institutions, spreading further than ever on powerful social networks. ... more 
How a Macedonian town became a 'fake news' epicentreVeles, Macedonia (AFP) July 12, 2018 Jovan got a pair of Nike sneakers and went on holiday to Greece, his reward for having helped turn the small Macedonian town of Veles into an epicentre of "fake news" during the 2016 US presidential race. ... more  
TItan LSC contracted for Saudi F-15 modernization supportWashington (UPI) Jul 11, 2018 Titan LSC of Amman, Jordan, has been awarded a contract for transportation and support for the Royal Saudi Air Force F-15 fighter fleet. ... more  
Syria air defences block Israeli attack on southwestDamascus (AFP) July 11, 2018 Syria's air defences on Wednesday blocked an Israeli missile attack on army positions in southwest Syria near the occupied Golan Heights, state news agency SANA said. ... more 
Trump stuns NATO with demand to double defence spendingBrussels (AFP) July 11, 2018 US President Donald Trump shocked allies at a fraught NATO summit on Wednesday by suddenly demanding that members double their defence spending commitments. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 10, 2018 
Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems Division has been awarded a contract modification for continued development of the next iteration of the Aegis ballistic missile defense system.
The deal, announced Monday by the Pentagon, comes under a $15 million cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to an existing contract. With the modification, the total value of the contract, for developme ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 9, 2018 
The NATO Seasparrow Project Office has performed a successful flight test of the Evolved Seasparrow Missile Block 2, the U.S. Navy announced.
The ESSM intercepted a BQM-74E drone target on July 5. The test is the first to use Raytheon's new Block 2 active guidance seeker-head, Navy officials said.
Raytheon received a $77 million contract in support of the program in May for furth ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 9, 2018 
A MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter finished its Initial Operational Test and Evaluation from the littoral combat ship USS Coronado, U.S. Navy officials said.
The crew of the Coronado and Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 1, or VX-1, conducted combat simulations to evaluate the Fire Scout on target identification, intelligence and surface warfare, the results of which will help the Na ... more |
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 McLean, VA (SPX) Jul 12, 2018 
The technology we have brought to market with our new Intelsat EpicNG high-throughput satellites is changing the way we deliver capabilities and services to our government customers.
Unlike wide-beam satellites, these new HTS platforms use power-concentrated spot beams to deliver signals reaching small mobility terminals and allowing users to leverage satellite connectivity at higher data ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 11, 2018 
The U.S. Army is introducing an extensive overhaul of its physical fitness test that, with minor changes, has mostly been the same since 1980.
The new test, announced this week, changes the name from the Army Physical Fitness Test to the Army Combat Fitness Test and is planned to become gender and age neutral. It will include a series of physical events, while the APFT was a series of p ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 06, 2018 
Earlier in April, Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) also confirmed that it would not be participating in the airshow.
Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation will not participate in the Farnborough Airshow set to take place in the United Kingdom in mid-July, head of the corporation's press service Vladimir Ustimenko told Sputnik on Thursday.
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 Brussels (AFP) July 11, 2018 
US President Donald Trump shocked allies at a fraught NATO summit on Wednesday by suddenly demanding that members double their defence spending commitments.
Trump's surprise demand came after he clashed with Chancellor Angela Merkel, calling Germany a "captive" of Russia because of its gas links and singling out Berlin for failing to pay its way.
The summit in Brussels is shaping up as t ... 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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 Ottawa (AFP) July 11, 2018 
Canada announced Wednesday it will assume command of a new NATO training and capacity building mission in Iraq, sending up to 250 troops, armored vehicles and four tactical helicopters to the country later this year.
The Canadian troops will be deployed in the Baghdad region starting in the fall of 2018 to help "Iraq build a more effective national security structure and improve training for ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) July 9, 2018 
When President Donald Trump announced the US would halt joint military drills with South Korea, he backed his controversial move by citing the "tremendous" costs of such exercises.
On Monday, the Pentagon put a dollar amount - about $14 million - on the costs of Freedom Guardian, a large-scale joint drill that was to kick off in August but which was shelved after Trump met with North Korea ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) July 9, 2018 
Tokyo will now host an EU-Japan summit on July 17 to sign a free trade accord after the Japanese premier cancelled the talks in Brussels because of deadly floods at home, the European Commission said Monday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called off the trip this week to Belgium and three other countries as the death toll from flooding and landslides caused by record rains hit 100.
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 Chiang Rai, Thailand (AFP) July 11, 2018 
The 12 boys rescued from a Thai cave were sedated and passed on stretchers along the twisting, narrow passageways of the Tham Luang complex, a rescuer said Wednesday as the first footage emerged of an astonishing mission that has captivated the world.
The video of the rescue, which ended on Tuesday when the final four boys and their 25-year-old coach emerged from the cave, was released by au ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2018 
China is accelerating its timetable for a space station, with the core capsule expected to be launched in 2020, says Yang Liwei, director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office and the country's first astronaut.
Yang told Chinese media recently that the two experiment modules of the space station will be sent into space in 2021 and 2022. Three or four manned missions and several carg ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 11, 2018 
A prominent Chinese political campaigner was sentenced to 13 years in jail on Wednesday, a court in central China said.
Qin Yongmin was found "guilty of subversion of state power," the Wuhan City Intermediate People's Court said on its official website.
According to court records, it appears to be the heftiest sentence handed down in China for "subversion" in the past 15 years.
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 Baghdad (AFP) July 10, 2018  The Islamic State (IS) group in 2014 launched a lightning offensive in Iraq, seizing nearly a third of the country before being beaten back by operations there and in neighbouring Syria.
The biggest loss for the jihadists - who still hold pockets of land and continue carry out deadly attacks - was that of Iraq's second city of Mosul on July 10, 2017.
On the anniversary of the city's fa ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 6, 2018 
Raytheon has a received a $10 million contract to develop the US Army's High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstration program.
The program is part of the Army's Indirect Fire Protection Capability Increment 2 initiative designed to counter incoming aerial threats such as drones, cruise missiles, artillery rounds and rockets.
The system will mount a 100 kilowatt laser, making i ... more |
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