|
|
|
  Washington (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 The United States will end its suspension of military drills on the Korean peninsula, a move that had been decided as a "good faith" measure following President Donald Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the Pentagon said Tuesday. "We took the step to suspend several of the largest military exercises as a good faith measure," Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters. "We have no plans to suspend any more." Mattis, however, did not give any indication that exercises with allie ... read more |
 |
US toughens stance as N. Korea talks stumbleWashington (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 With US-South Korean military drills back on the table and the cancelation of a top-level summit in Pyongyang, Washington is toughening its stance as it negotiates with North Korea. ... more 
North Korea still 'serious and imminent threat': JapanTokyo (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 North Korea still poses a "serious and imminent threat", Japan said Tuesday in its first annual defence review since tensions eased on the Korean peninsula. ... more 
Pompeo visit scrapped after belligerent letter from N.Korea: reportWashington (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's planned trip to North Korea last weekend was cancelled after he received what US officials deemed to be a belligerent letter from Pyongyang, The Washington Post reported. ... more  
Russia to hold biggest military drills since Cold WarMoscow (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 Russia will flex its military muscles and hold the biggest war games since the Cold War era next month, including almost 300,000 troops and 1,000 aircraft, the defence ministry said Tuesday, leading NATO to warn of a "more assertive Russia". ... more |
|
|
|
|
| Previous Issues | Aug 28 | Aug 27 | Aug 24 | Aug 23 | Aug 22 |
|
|
|
|
|
Blow for France's Macron as star minister quitsParis (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 President Emmanuel Macron suffered a major political blow Tuesday as his popular environment minister resigned live on radio - without informing the French leader beforehand. ... more  
Trump social media 'censorship' claim is fake but widely believedWashington (AFP) Aug 26, 2018 There is little evidence to back up Donald Trump's persistent claim that social media firms "silence" or "censor" conservatives, but the notion has nonetheless gathered widespread acceptance among his considerable following. ... more 
Trump warns tech giants, stepping up attacks claiming 'bias'Washington (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 President Donald Trump stepped up attacks on big tech firms Tuesday, warning Facebook, Google and Twitter to be "careful," hours after slamming what he called "rigged" internet search results. ... more  
Truman Carrier Strike Group departs Norfolk after port visitWashington (UPI) Aug 28, 2018 Close to 6,500 Sailors of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group set sail from Naval Station Norfolk on Tuesday following a month-long extended port visit. ... more  
UN points to possible 'war crimes' in Yemen conflictGeneva (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 All sides in Yemen's bloody conflict may have committed war crimes, UN investigators said Tuesday, highlighting deadly air strikes, rampant sexual violence, and the recruitment of young children as soldiers. ... more |
|
 Russia 'reinforcing military presence off Syria'  
US military says IS member killed in Libya air strikeTripoli (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 The US military said it carried out an air strike Tuesday in Libya, killing an Islamic State member described by a source as a former local leader of the jihadist group. ... more  |
|
|
|
After stinging defeats, IS revamps to surviveBaghdad (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 Four years after announcing its cross-border "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria, a stinging string of defeats has pushed the Islamic State jihadist group to reorganise and change strategy to survive. ... more 
US support to coalition in Yemen not unconditional: MattisWashington (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 US support for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen is not "unconditional," Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday, as he defended America's ongoing role in the war. ... more  
Suicide car bomber kills 11 in western IraqRamadi, Iraq (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle in the town of Al-Qaim in western Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people, five of them security personnel, police said. ... more 
NKorea still 'serious and imminent threat': JapanTokyo (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 North Korea still poses a "serious and imminent threat", Japan said Tuesday in its first annual defence review since tensions eased on the Korean peninsula. ... more 
Iran fights US sanctions at UN courtThe Hague (AFP) Aug 27, 2018 Iran demanded Monday that the UN's top court order the United States to suspend nuclear-linked sanctions against Tehran, but Washington vowed to "vigorously" fend off the legal challenge. ... more |
|
|
 Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2018 
PeopleTec has received a $33.6 million contract with a two-year value of $9 million for engineering advising services for the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System.
The contract covers engineering for international partners and the Ballistic Missile Defense System to defend against ballistic missile threats. Work will be performed in Huntsville, Ala., Fort Belvoir, Va., and Tel Aviv, Is ... more |
|
 Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 
Raytheon has received a $9.3 million order for certification and parts for Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles for the U.S. Navy.
The order, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, provides for the Tomahawk Block IV certification, an actuator control unit desiccant, and nitrile O-ring analysis.
Work will be performed in Walled Lake, Mich., Clearwater, Fla., Gainesville, Va ... more |
|
|
 Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has been awarded a contract for $123 million for the French 3rd/4th Systems MQ-9 Block 5 program.
Work on the contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in Poway, Calif., and is expected to be completed by May 2020. The program falls under a foreign military sale to France.
The MQ-9 SkyGuardian, also known as ... more |
|
 Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2018 
One of the US Defense Department's top research agencies has been testing a new communication network that one researcher described as "basically fiber optic communications without the fiber."
In early 2017, the DoD awarded the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) $45 million to develop a system of sensors and hardware that would enable soldiers to communicate even if the enem ... more |
|
|
 Washington (UPI) Aug 22, 2018 
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency received its first order of precision-guided munitions acquired through a NATO program involving 11 members and partners.
The PGMs are manufactured in the United States and will be delivered to Belgium and Denmark in the next several weeks, NATO announced on Wednesday. The value of the initial order is $20 million.
The delivery is part of a ... more |
|
 Washington (AFP) Aug 18, 2018 
The bomb that killed 40 children and 11 others in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a bus in rebel-held northern Yemen was sold by the United States under a State Department deal with Riyadh, CNN has reported.
The numbers on shrapnel, of which images were taken shortly after the attack this month, indicate that it was a laser-guided Mk 82 bomb manufactured by defense contractor Lockheed Ma ... more |
|
|
 Moscow (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 
Russia will next month hold its biggest war games since at least the 1980s, with around 300,000 troops and 1,000 aircraft, the defence minister said Tuesday.
The Vostok-2018 exercises will be carried out from September 11 to 15 in the country's east with the participation of China and Mongolia.
"This will be something of a repeat of Zapad-81, but in some senses even bigger," Sergei Shoi ... more |
|
 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 
Nanoparticle manufacturing, the production of material units less than 100 nanometers in size (100,000 times smaller than a marble), is proving the adage that "good things come in small packages."
Today's engineered nanoparticles are integral components of everything from the quantum dot nanocrystals coloring the brilliant displays of state-of-the-art televisions to the miniscule bits of s ... more |
|
|
 Ramadi, Iraq (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 
A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle in the town of Al-Qaim in western Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people, five of them security personnel, police said.
The 9 am (0600 GMT) bombing at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Al-Qaim also wounded 16 people - 11 civilians and five security personnel, police Captain Mahmud Jassem told AFP.
The town, on the Syrian border some 340 kilometre ... more |
|
 Washington (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 
The United States will end its suspension of military drills on the Korean peninsula, a move that had been decided as a "good faith" measure following President Donald Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
"We took the step to suspend several of the largest military exercises as a good faith measure," Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters. "We ... more |
|
|
 Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 
U.S. President Trump is admired for fulfilling campaign promises, but some of those actions are harming his own ambitions on energy, a trade group said.
On the campaign trail, Trump promised to "use every tool under American and international law to end these (trade) abuses." Nearly two years into his term, he's made good on that pledge by targeting North American, European and Chinese ... more |
|
 Brussels (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 
A row between Italy's populist government and the EU could sink hopes of ending Europe's longstanding crisis over migrants, and even raises doubts about Rome's place in the bloc, analysts and officials say.
Despite a sharp drop in asylum seekers entering Europe since a 2015 peak, Italy is turning away ships with migrants rescued at sea in a campaign to make EU countries take their share. ... more |
|
|
 Beijing (XNA) Aug 17, 2018 
China's moon lander and rover for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land on the far side of the moon this year, was unveiled Wednesday.
Images displayed at Wednesday's press conference showed the rover was a rectangular box with two foldable solar panels and six wheels. It is 1.5 meters long, 1 meter wide and 1.1 meters high.
Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China's lun ... more |
|
 Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 27, 2018 
A Hong Kong pro-democracy group led by high-profile activist Joshua Wong said Monday two of its members had been detained and questioned in mainland China.
The pair were released within hours but were warned not to publicise their experiences, the Demosisto party said in a statement.
Hong Kong has rights unseen on the mainland but concerns are growing that those liberties are under serio ... more |
|
|
 Tripoli (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 
The US military said it carried out an air strike Tuesday in Libya, killing an Islamic State member described by a source as a former local leader of the jihadist group.
The US Africa Command said it "conducted a precision airstrike near Bani Walid, Libya, on August 28, killing one ISIS-Libya terrorist," referring to the Islamic State group.
The strike around 170 kilometres (105 miles) s ... more |
|
 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 |
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Buy Advertising | Media Advertising Kit | Editorial & Other Enquiries | Privacy statement |
| The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2018 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement |
