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  Tokyo (AFP) Sept 3, 2018 Japan's defence chief on Monday warned the country faces a tough security environment, with China and Russia stepping up military activity and North Korea posing "imminent threats". Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera said China had been "unilaterally escalating" its military activities in the past year, including carrying out new airborne operations around Japan and running a nuclear submarine near disputed East Coast isles. "China has been rapidly improving its military strength and fast increas ... read more |
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China hosts African leaders amid aid criticismBeijing (AFP) Sept 3, 2018 China hosts African leaders Monday for a summit aimed at promoting Beijing's vision for development on the continent, even as it finds itself increasingly criticised over its debt-heavy approach to foreign aid. ... more  
Navy taps Boeing for MQ-25 refueling droneWashington (UPI) Aug 31, 2018 Boeing has received a ceiling price $805 million contract to provide the design, development, construction, testing and support of four MQ-25A Stingray unmanned tanker drones. ... more  
Microwave weapon suspected in mystery attacks on US diplomats: reportWashington (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 Doctors and scientists increasingly suspect attacks with unconventional microwave weapons as the cause of the mysterious ailments that have stricken more than three dozen American diplomats and their families in Cuba and China, The New York Times reported Sunday. ... more  
S. Korea's Moon to send special envoy to N. Korea next weekSeoul (AFP) Aug 31, 2018 South Korean President Moon Jae-in will send a special envoy to Pyongyang next Wednesday to discuss plans to hold a summit with the North's Kim Jong Un and nuclear disarmament, Moon's office said Friday. ... more |
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Turkey rushes to buy advanced Russia air defence systemIstanbul (AFP) Aug 31, 2018 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said Turkey will buy some of Russia's highly-sophisticated air defence systems "in the shortest time" - a purchase that has alarmed Ankara's NATO partners. ... more 
Leidos contracted for Saturn Arch counter-IED surveillance aircraftWashington (UPI) Aug 28, 2018 Leidos has received a $26.8 million contract modification for the Saturn Arch Quick Reaction Capability Aircraft. ... more  
The world's lowest-cost global communications networkLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 Swarm has created the world's smallest two-way communication satellites to enable low-cost, space-based connectivity anywhere in the world. Swarm was born out of our obsession with a long-stan ... more  
India readies baby rockets to tap small satellites' marketNew Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 31, 2018 The ISRO is developing a small rocket of not more than 100 tons that can send a 500 kg satellite into a 500 km orbit. The ISRO, which is earning around $40 million annually through launching small s ... more  
Space sector to benefit from multi-million pound work on UK alternative to GalileoLondon, UK (SPX) Aug 30, 2018 UK industry will benefit from a Pounds 92 million injection to design a national alternative to the EU's Galileo satellite system, ensuring UK security post Brexit. The money has been allocated fr ... more |
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 Saudi-led coalition admits 'mistakes' in deadly Yemen bus strike  
Blasts at Syrian airbase near Damascus kill two: monitorBeirut (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 At least two pro-government forces were killed overnight in a string of explosions at a military airport near the Syrian capital, a monitoring group said on Sunday. ... more  |
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Iraq's Sadr and Abadi form biggest parliamentary blocBaghdad (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 Sixteen political groupings in Iraq, including those of nationalist Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr and outgoing Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, late Sunday reached an accord to create the biggest bloc in parliament, capable of forming a new government. ... more 
Iraqi amputees take the plunge to forget horrors of ISArbil, Iraq (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 With artificial limbs in the place of legs they lost to jihadists, a group of Iraqis plunged into a swimming pool for a special race aimed at helping them overcome the horrors of war. ... more 
Suicide bomber kills 2 Iraq policemenKirkuk, Iraq (AFP) Aug 31, 2018 A suicide bomber has killed two Iraqi policemen near a former bastion of the Islamic State group, days after IS claimed a similar attack near Syria's border, a security official said Friday. ... more 
Iraq PM sacks paramilitary chiefBaghdad (AFP) Aug 30, 2018 Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday announced the dismissal of the head of the powerful Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force, which played a major role in stinging defeats of the Islamic State jihadist group. ... more 
France's Macron proposes EU collective defence planHelsinki (AFP) Aug 30, 2018 French President Emmanuel Macron suggested that Europe adopts a form of collective defence on Thursday as he strengthens calls for EU integration in the face of concerns over the United States' security commitments. ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 30, 2018 
According to the Russian Defense Ministry's statement, the new missile interceptor has reliably confirmed its performance specifications and successfully accomplished the set task by destroying a simulated target with a required accuracy.
"An air and missile defense unit of the Russian Aerospace Forces has carried out another successful test of a new interceptor missile at the Sary Shagan ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 27, 2018 
Raytheon Missile Systems of Tucson, Ariz., has received a $25.1 million for Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile Block I life-of-type-buy and assembly-level spares.
Work on the contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in Andover, Mass., Tucson, Ariz., San Jose, Calif., and other locations in the United States and allied nations.
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2018 
Boeing has received a ceiling price $805 million contract to provide the design, development, construction, testing and support of four MQ-25A Stingray unmanned tanker drones.
Work on the contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in St. Louis, Mo., Indianapolis, Ind., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Quebec, Canada, Palm Bay, Fla., as well as other locations inside ... more |
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 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 |
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 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.
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 
A top Pentagon official cautioned India on Wednesday that there are no guarantees for a special waiver from US sanctions if it buys new weapons platforms from Russia.
Washington is alarmed at the prospect of India, an increasingly important US military ally and the world's top defense importer, buying new systems from Russia, including its S-400 long-range, surface-to-air missile system.
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 Tokyo (AFP) Aug 31, 2018 
Japan's defence ministry on Friday made its biggest-ever budget request, seeking better missile defence and bolstered air power amid ongoing threats from North Korea and China.
The ministry wants 5.298 trillion yen ($47 billion) for the next fiscal year from April, the seventh straight annual increase and 2.1 percent more than last year.
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 
Single-walled carbon nanotubes, or sheets of one atom-thick layers of graphene rolled up into different sizes and shapes, have found many uses in electronics and new touch screen devices. By nature, carbon nanotubes are typically black or a dark grey.
In their new study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), Aalto University researchers present a way to control t ... more |
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 Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 
With artificial limbs in the place of legs they lost to jihadists, a group of Iraqis plunged into a swimming pool for a special race aimed at helping them overcome the horrors of war.
Abdel Zahra Kazem, a soldier from southern Iraq who was wounded in an attack in Baghdad, said getting back in the pool had helped him to rediscover one of his passions in life.
"I've swum since I was a chil ... more |
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 The Hague (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 
Iran told the UN's top court Wednesday that "time is running out" for its people as they suffer economic turmoil that Tehran blames on renewed US sanctions.
Iran was making its closing arguments in a challenge to the sanctions at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
US President Donald Trump reimposed the sanctions after pulling out of a multilateral 2015 accord in May.
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 2, 2018  China's massive and expanding "Belt and Road" trade infrastructure project is running into speed bumps as some countries begin to grumble about being buried under Chinese debt.
First announced in 2013 by President Xi Jinping, the initiative also known as the "new Silk Road" envisions the construction of railways, roads and ports across the globe, with Beijing providing billions of dollars in ... more |
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 St. John'S, Antigua And Barbuda (AFP) Sept 1, 2018 
Dozens of Barbudans were forcibly evicted Saturday from a shelter on neighboring Antigua, leaving them without a home almost exactly a year after powerful Hurricane Irma devastated their island.
Around 40 people - half of them children, the youngest just a month old - were ousted from the National Technical Training Center after police and government officials descended on the building in ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 30, 2018 
Engineers have successfully tested the propulsion system of China's planned space station lab capsules, a key step in its space station program.
Weighing 66 tonnes, the space station will comprise a core module and two lab capsules. The propulsion system will determine whether lab capsules can move in space.
Engineers designed 36 engines for the propulsion system with four to adjust ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 2, 2018  Police in central China said Sunday they arrested nearly 50 people after a violent protest sparked by dissatisfaction with the local school system.
More than 600 protesters gathered outside a police station in Leiyang city in Hunan province around midnight Saturday after security personnel stopped a protest earlier in the day, police said in a statement on their website.
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 Baghdad (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 
An Iraqi judge on Wednesday cleared a German-Turkish woman of having ties to the Islamic State group, a judicial source said, more than a year after she was detained.
Hadya Abdel Qader had been held without charge since her arrest by Iraqi security forces in Mosul, in a part of the northern city held by IS.
The jihadist group was ousted from Mosul in July last year after a months-long ba ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 
Doctors and scientists increasingly suspect attacks with unconventional microwave weapons as the cause of the mysterious ailments that have stricken more than three dozen American diplomats and their families in Cuba and China, The New York Times reported Sunday.
The victims reported hearing intense high-pitched sounds in their hotel rooms or homes followed by symptoms that included nausea, ... more |
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