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  Washington (AFP) Aug 16, 2018 The US Treasury announced sanctions on Russian and Chinese companies Wednesday for violating the economic embargo on North Korea as Washington seeks to maintain pressure on Pyongyang over its nuclear program. The Treasury accused China-based Dalian Sun Moon Star International Logistics Trading Co and its Singapore-based affiliate, SINSMS Pte., of falsifying documents to facilitate shipments of alcohol and cigarettes to North Korea. Those shipments helped fuel what the Treasury alleged was a huge ... read more |
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Malaysian PM heading to China with mega-projects in focusKuala Lumpur (AFP) Aug 16, 2018 Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad begins a visit to China Friday, seeking to renegotiate or even cancel major Beijing-backed projects signed under the country's scandal-plagued, former regime. ... more 
Britain's RAF intercepts six Russian bombers over Black SeaBucharest (AFP) Aug 15, 2018 Britain's Royal Air Force said Wednesday it had intercepted six Russian bomber planes flying close to NATO air space over the Black Sea. ... more  
Lockheed receives contract for missile warning satellites(UPI) Aug 15, 2018 Lockheed Martin Space Systems has received a $2.9 billion contract for three Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Space Vehicles for the U.S. Air Force. ... more  
Iraq religious tourism squeezed by Iran sanctionsNajaf, Iraq (AFP) Aug 16, 2018 With hotels facing mass cancellations, Iraqis in the holy city of Najaf are being hit hard by US sanctions on neighbouring Iran, which have forced cash-strapped pilgrims to stay home. ... more |
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ASTERIA Wins Small Satellite Mission of the Year AwardPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 15, 2018 The ASTERIA mission has earned the Small Satellite Mission of the Year award from the Small Satellite Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The award ... more  
SpaceX vows manned flight to space station is on trackLos Angeles (AFP) Aug 14, 2018 Tech magnate Elon Musk's SpaceX vowed Monday to send its first astronauts into orbit on schedule next year - part of a drive to restore America's dominance of the space race. ... more  
BAE, Splunk receive contract for government data cloud services(UPI) Aug 15, 2018 BAE Systems is partnering with Splunk Enterprises and Dell EMC to develop a new federal government solution for cloud storage security. ... more  
Taiwan cafe chain that irked Beijing vanishes from food platformsShanghai (AFP) Aug 16, 2018 A Taiwan coffee chain that faces pressure in China after serving the island's president has disappeared from Chinese meal-ordering platforms, as Beijing warned it would oppose any businesses that support Taiwanese independence. ... more  
GenDyn contracted for USS Cowpens modernization(UPI) Aug 15, 2018 General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding of San Diego, Calif., has received a $147.7 million contract for the modernization availability of the USS Cowpens, a Ticonderoga-class cruiser. ... more |
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 Boeing lands $40M contract modification for Navy F/A-18 parts  
Boeing tapped to upgrade F/A-18s for Blue AngelsWashington (UPI) Aug 14, 2018 Boeing has received a $17 million order against a previously issued ordering agreement for Blue Angel F/A-18 conversions. ... more  |
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CFM International receives contract for P-8 Poseidon engines and partsWashington (UPI) Aug 14, 2018 CFM International out of West Chester, Ohio, has received a $80 million contract for the procurement of five engines, four engine compressor cases and four associated part kits for the Navy and one engine for the government of Australia in support of the P-8 Poseidon aircraft. ... more 
Boeing receives contract for C-32A refurbishment(UPI) Aug 15, 2018 Boeing has received a $16 million U.S. Defense Department contract for engineering support services for C-32A aircraft. ... more  
Israel clears soldiers in 2014 'Black Friday' Gaza assaultJerusalem (AFP) Aug 15, 2018 Israel's military on Wednesday closed its probe into a deadly 2014 assault in Gaza that followed the capture of a soldier despite a rights group's charge of possible war crimes. ... more 
Moon says Pyongyang summit to be 'bold step' towards ending warSeoul (AFP) Aug 15, 2018 South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday his visit to Pyongyang next month will be a "bold step" towards formally ending the decades-old war with the nuclear-armed North. ... more  
Philippines' Duterte slams China over island-buildingManila (AFP) Aug 15, 2018 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has urged China to "temper" its behaviour in the South China Sea in a rare criticism of the Asian superpower over its programme of island-building in disputed waters. ... more |
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 (UPI) Aug 15, 2018 
Lockheed Martin Space Systems has received a $2.9 billion contract for three Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Space Vehicles for the U.S. Air Force.
The contract, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, provides for design, development, flight hardware procurement, manufacturing and risk reduction as part of a critical design review.
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 Tehran (AFP) Aug 13, 2018 
Iran unveiled a next generation short-range ballistic missile on Monday and vowed to further boost its capabilities, Iranian media said, at a time of rising tensions with the United States.
State broadcaster IRIB said the new Fateh Mobin missile had "successfully passed its tests" and could strike targets on land and sea.
"As promised to our dear people, we will not spare any effort to i ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 13, 2018 
From hand-held copters that zoom around the living room to high-speed craft offering the sensation of flying over the countryside, drones have won over legions of fans - and are proving a growing challenge for security authorities.
Experts say models readily available on the market can easily be turned into a "poor man's weapon", a remote-controlled bomb or a means of filming a site in prep ... more |
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 Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 
The Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Program marked a significant occasion, June 22 when members of the leadership team at the Space and Missile Systems Center, the Aerospace Corporation and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company all gathered to place their signatures on a thermal space blanket that will travel in space inside the AEHF-4 satellite this coming October.
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 6, 2018 
The U.S. Army awarded an $11.1 million modification to an existing contract with General Dynamics Land Systems for parts supporting the Stryker family of armored vehicles.
General Dynamics regularly works on the Stryker program and it landed a Defense Department contract in June to upgrade the vehicles' hulls.
The contract announced Thursday covers parts for the entire program, t ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 1, 2018 
The US Senate easily passed a $716.3 billion defense authorization bill Wednesday that ramps up military spending and bolsters America's posture against Russia, while avoiding policy changes that would have antagonized President Donald Trump.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed 87 to 10 in the Senate a week after clearing the House of Representatives, and now heads to the Wh ... more |
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 Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Aug 16, 2018 
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad begins a visit to China Friday, seeking to renegotiate or even cancel major Beijing-backed projects signed under the country's scandal-plagued, former regime.
The 93-year-old leader, who returned for a second stint as premier following a shock election win in May, has railed against a series of deals struck with Chinese state-owned companies by the a ... more |
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 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Aug 14, 2018 
By combining multiple nanomaterials into a single structure, scientists can create hybrid materials that incorporate the best properties of each component and outperform any single substance. A controlled method for making triple-layered hollow nanostructures has now been developed at KAUST. The hybrid structures consist of a conductive organic core sandwiched between layers of electrocatalytica ... more |
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 Najaf, Iraq (AFP) Aug 16, 2018 
With hotels facing mass cancellations, Iraqis in the holy city of Najaf are being hit hard by US sanctions on neighbouring Iran, which have forced cash-strapped pilgrims to stay home.
At the city's edge, surrounded by mosaic-covered walls and topped by a golden dome, sits the shrine of Imam Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed and a revered figure among Shiite Muslims.
The shrine draw ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) Aug 15, 2018  South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday his visit to Pyongyang next month will be a "bold step" towards formally ending the decades-old war with the nuclear-armed North.
The two Koreas agreed earlier this week to hold a third meeting between Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in September as a rapid diplomatic thaw builds on the peninsula following their first summit in April ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 16, 2018 
China will send a senior negotiator to the United States in late August to resume trade talks, its commerce ministry said Thursday, the first public meeting on the dispute in weeks as the trade conflict intensifies.
Beijing and Washington have slapped tariffs on tens of billions of dollars worth of each other's goods since they held their last high-level meeting in June, raising fears that t ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Aug 16, 2018 
Scientists have for the first time been able to estimate the amount of radioactive cesium-rich microparticles released by the disaster at the Fukushima power plant in 2011. This work, which will have significant health and environmental implications, is presented at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference in Boston*.
The flooding of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) after t ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 09, 2018 
A report by the New Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation says that the impeccable capacity of China's launch vehicles puts it in direct competition with the West.
According to the report, China is strategically capturing a major share of the international communications satellites market as part of a grand plan to benefit its own strategic interest as well as that of its allies. Expert ... more |
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 Manila (AFP) Aug 15, 2018 
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has urged China to "temper" its behaviour in the South China Sea in a rare criticism of the Asian superpower over its programme of island-building in disputed waters.
China has alarmed and angered its neighbours by claiming dominion over most of the South China Sea and building a string of artificial islands and military airbases.
But the outspoken D ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) Aug 13, 2018 
Between 20,000 and 30,000 Islamic State fighters remain in Iraq and Syria despite the jihadist group's defeat and a halt in the flow of foreigners joining its ranks, according to a UN report released Monday.
The report by UN sanctions monitors estimates that between 3,000 and 4,000 IS jihadists were based in Libya while some of the key operatives in the extremist group were being relocated t ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 07, 2018 
The U.S. Army awarded Dynetics, Lockheed Martin and its partners a $10 million contract to continue development for the next phase of the High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstrator (HEL TVD) program, a 100-kilowatt class laser weapon system.
Laser weapons are ideally suited to address high volume, low cost threats because of their inexpensive cost per shot and deep magazine. Team Dyne ... more |
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