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 Seoul (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Seoul "soon", the South's President Moon Jae-in said Thursday, amid a rapid diplomatic thaw on the peninsula despite stalled nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington. At their third summit in Pyongyang in September, the leaders of the two Koreas agreed Kim would visit Seoul "in the near future" without giving a specific date. Moon later suggested that the trip was likely to happen this year, and told lawmakers Thursday that the peninsula was appro ... read more |
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EU bid to sidestep US Iran sanctions hits quicksandBrussels (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 The EU effort to save the Iran nuclear accord by building a mechanism to buy Tehran's oil despite the return of US sanctions has run into difficulty. ... more 
Trump sanctions set to bite Iran, but what next?Washington (AFP) Nov 2, 2018 Six months after President Donald Trump bolted from a nuclear deal on Iran, the United States from Monday will try to strangle the country's economy with sweeping sanctions, but doubts abound on how effective the campaign will be. ... more 
Iran nuclear deal: from US walkout to fresh sanctionsTehran (AFP) Nov 2, 2018 The United States last May quit the landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal aimed at halting Tehran's nuclear ambitions. ... more  
China hosts El Salvador, Dominican leaders after Taiwan switchBeijing (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 Chinese President Xi Jinping greeted El Salvador's President Salvador Sanchez Ceren on Thursday, pledging aid to the Central American country months after it switched allegiance from Taiwan to Beijing. ... more |
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Chinese-style 'digital authoritarianism' grows globally: studyWashington (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 Governments worldwide are stepping up use of online tools, in many cases inspired by China's model, to suppress dissent and tighten their grip on power, a human rights watchdog study found Thursday. ... more  
Navy exercises contract option for Zumwalt-class logistics, engineeringWashington (UPI) Nov 1, 2018 Raytheon has been awarded a $34 million modification to a previous contract by the U.S. Navy for integrated logistics support and engineering services on DDG 1000-class ships. ... more 
German covettes to receive OTO 76/62 Super Rapid naval gun systemWashington (UPI) Nov 1, 2018 Leonardo announced a deal on Thursday to mount its new defense gun system on new German naval ships. ... more  
Lockheed to supply F-35 training systems to Marine CorpsWashington (UPI) Nov 1, 2018 Lockheed Martin has received a contract modification for $64 million from the U.S. Navy to produce F-35 training systems for the U.S. Marine Corps. ... more  
Joint Turkey-US patrols begin in Syria's Manbij: state mediaAnkara (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 Troops from Turkey and the United States launched joint patrols in the northern Syrian city of Manbij on Thursday, the Turkish defence minister said, part of a bid to ease tensions between the NATO allies. ... more |
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 Taking cue from Trump, Brazil's Bolsonaro to move Israel embassy 
NATO urges Russia to comply by nuclear treatyBrussels (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 NATO on Wednesday urged Russia to comply fully with a Cold War nuclear weapons treaty after US President Donald Trump announced he wanted to pull out of the deal. ... more  |
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N. Korea readying nuclear site for inspectors: S. Korea reportSeoul (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 South Korea's spy agency has detected signs that Pyongyang is preparing to allow international inspectors to visit its nuclear and missile test sites, Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday. ... more 
Australia warns against US-China tensionsSydney (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 China's rising and "unprecedented influence" in the Indo-Pacific region will challenge American interests, but confrontation must not define relations between the two powers, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned Thursday. ... more  
Bulgaria's arms exports top 1.2 billion euros in 2017Sofia (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 Bulgaria's booming arms trade continued to grow in 2017 with arms and ammunitions exports topping 1.2 billion euros ($1.4 billion), an official report showed Wednesday. ... more 
S. Korean court allows conscientious objection to military serviceSeoul (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 South Korea's supreme court ruled Thursday that moral and religious beliefs are valid reasons to refuse the country's mandatory military service, in a case that has implications for hundreds of conscientious objectors. ... more 
US-SKorea to decide fate of future drills after reviewWashington (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 Seoul and Washington will decide in the coming weeks whether to continue suspending large-scale joint military drills, South Korea's defense minister said Wednesday. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 29, 2018 
Raytheon's Standard Missile-3 Block IIA variant anti-ballistic missile system completed a second round of successful tests for the U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency.
Crew members on the USS John Finn on Friday launched the SM-3 Block IIA missile to successfully destroy a a land-launched target that resembled a ballistics missile.
The target missile was launched from the Pacifi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 31, 2018 
Boeing received an award for $244 million from the U.S. Navy to procure long lead material for Harpoon full-rate production Lot 91 in support of multiple Foreign Military Sales customers
The firm-fixed-price contract was announced Tuesday by the Defense Department.
To date, Boeing has delivered more than 7,000 Harpoons to armed forces in more than 30 countries, according to the B ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 
An S-76B commercial helicopter flew over a small crowd gathered at Fort Eustis, Virginia, landed in an adjacent field after adjusting to miss a vehicle, and rose up to hover perfectly motionless for several minutes. The mid-October demonstration was remarkable because the pilot carried out the maneuvers using supervised autonomy in an aircraft equipped with DARPA's Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Autom ... more |
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 Adelphi MD (SPX) Nov 02, 2018 
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the Joint Quantum Institute have created a pristine quantum light source that has the potential to lead to more secure communications and enhanced sensing capabilities for Soldiers.
ARL's Dr. Elizabeth Goldschmidt and JQI's Dr. Sunil Mittal and Prof. Mohammad Hafezi discuss this research in their paper titled "A topological source of qua ... more |
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 Adelphi MD (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 
New research focusing on how brain structure may impact brain activity and ultimately human behavior could one day lead to technology that can be catered to an individual Soldier in a training environment or operational setting.
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University at Buffalo are developing a new tool - computational models of the brain - to learn more about ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Oct 31, 2018  The Swiss government on Wednesday reversed a decision to loosen restrictions on weapons exports to countries wracked by internal conflict following outcry over the planned move.
Switzerland's government, known as the Federal Council, said in a statement at it had decided "not to amend the War Material Ordinance".
That marked a reversal from its highly controversial decision in mid-June ... more |
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 New Delhi (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 
Rival Asian giants India and China are anxiously watching the constitutional conflict between contending prime ministers in Sri Lanka to see whose interests get the upper hand in their own strategic battle.
It is the second time in barely a month that the Indian Ocean has become a battleground between the powers, after the Maldives' hotly disputed presidential election saw the eviction of a ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 
Applied research is not always initiated by industry - but oftentimes it yields results that can swiftly be implemented by companies. A prime example can be seen on the Empa campus in Thun: Tiny watch springs are on display at the Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures. These springs - the beating heart of every mechanical clock - are not your usual components. They are not mad ... more |
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 Mehran, Iran (AFP) Oct 29, 2018 
A 15-minute walk from the Iraqi border in the west Iranian town of Mehran, three young clerics are hard at work polishing the shoes of pilgrims.
Farther down the road another cleric stands on a chair holding a Koran over the heads of passing crowds, blessing them as they march in the thousands towards the shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala, central Iraq.
A tailor is also working diligent ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 
The EU on Wednesday condemned a foiled "attack" in Denmark blamed on Tehran but insisted the incident should not undermine Europe's support for the beleaguered Iran nuclear deal.
Copenhagen recalled its ambassador to Tehran for consultations after Danish intelligence accused Iran of planning an attack in Denmark against three Iranians - an allegation denied by the Islamic republic.
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 Shanghai (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 
President Xi Jinping opens a huge Shanghai import fair next week at which armies of Chinese companies will shop for billions of dollars in foreign goods as China seeks to counter charges that its markets aren't open.
But not everyone is buying it.
China's trade war adversary, the United States, is pointedly snubbing a gathering that will draw several overseas leaders, and foreign busines ... more |
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 Wellington (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 
A New Zealand woman who was buried alive in an avalanche has told how she dug her way out of the snow after her two companions, both originally from Germany, perished on the mountainside.
Media reports on Thursday named the dead men as Martin Hess and Wolfgang Maier, with police confirming they were both German-born mountain guides who lived in New Zealand.
They were climbing Mount Hicks ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 24, 2018 
When German scientists were conducting micro-gravity experiments on China's recoverable satellite in the 1980s, Chinese space engineer Tang Bochang was busy solving technical problems, while carefully keeping Chinese secrets.
Tang joined the China Academy of Space Technology in 1970, the same year China launched its first satellite. He has participated in the development of returnable sate ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2018 
Lodi Gyari, the Dalai Lama's right-hand diplomat who helped build the Tibetan leader's clout in Washington but came away empty from years of talks with China, has died, colleagues said. He was 69.
The International Campaign for Tibet, which Gyari once headed, said he died Monday in San Francisco after a battle with hepatocellular carcinoma, a type of liver cancer.
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 
The army general tapped by Brazil's far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro to be defense minister said Wednesday that snipers should be deployed to take down armed criminal suspects.
His comments came after the far-right governor-elect of Rio de Janeiro, Wilson Witzel, met with criticism after announcing he would deploy police snipers to shoot suspects even if officers' lives are not in da ... more |
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 Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 
The Missile Defense Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a nine month, $25.5 million contract extension to continue development of its Low Power Laser Demonstrator (LPLD) missile interceptor concept. This program, awarded Aug. 31, builds on a 2017 contract to develop an initial LPLD concept.
Lockheed Martin's LPLD concept consists of a fiber laser system on a high-performing, high-altitude airbo ... more |
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