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  Washington (AFP) Jan 2, 2019 President Donald Trump is looking forward to another summit with Kim Jong Un, he said Tuesday, after the North Korean leader warned Pyongyang could change its approach to nuclear talks if Washington persists with sanctions. "I also look forward to meeting with Chairman Kim who realizes so well that North Korea possesses great economic potential!" Trump said in a brief tweet. The two leaders made global headlines with an unprecedented summit in Singapore in June, where they signed a vaguely-worde ... read more |
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Taiwan reunification with China 'inevitable': XiBeijing (AFP) Jan 2, 2019 Taiwan's unification with the mainland is "inevitable", President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, warning against any efforts to promote the island's independence and saying China would not renounce the option of using military force to bring it into the fold. ... more 
China will not give up use of military force over Taiwan: XiBeijing (AFP) Jan 2, 2019 China will not give up the use of military force as an option to ensure the reunification of Taiwan, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, while insisting the island would ultimately be reunified with the mainland. ... more 
China taking advantage of Taiwan's openness, warns TsaiTaipei (AFP) Jan 1, 2019 China's manipulation of Taiwan's democratic openness is the biggest threat to the island's security, President Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday, as she called on Beijing to seek peaceful means to solve their differences. ... more  
Xi, Trump vow cooperation on diplomatic anniversary: state mediaBeijing (AFP) Jan 1, 2019 The presidents of China and the US have exchanged messages vowing to boost cooperation despite a bruising trade war on the 40th anniversary of the countries' diplomatic relations, Chinese state media reported. ... more |
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Cabinet approves 'Gaganyaan programme' for manned flight to spaceNew Delhi (IANS) Dec 31, 2018 In major boost to India's ambitious programme to send astronauts to space, the Union Cabinet has approved Rs 10,000-crore "Gaganyaan Programme" that envisages two unmanned and one manned flights to ... more  
Plesetsk spaceport to prepare launch pad for Angara rocket in MayMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 01, 2019 The launch pad at the Plesetsk spaceport in northwestern Russia will be re-equipped for launches of the Angara carrier rocket atop a new upper stage by the end of spring, a source in the industry to ... more 
'Hold fast': Mattis bids farewell to PentagonWashington (AFP) Dec 31, 2018 Defense Secretary Jim Mattis bade farewell to the Pentagon on Monday, telling the US military to "hold fast" after he quit over a series of fundamental differences with President Donald Trump. ... more  
Bell Boeing to build CMV-22B planes for Navy, MarinesWashington (UPI) Jan 01, 2019 Bell Boeing Joint Project Office has received a $366 million contract for construction of five military planes, the U.S. Defense Department announced. ... more 
Boeing receives $400M contract to keep B-1, B-52 bombers flyingWashington (UPI) Jan 01, 2019 Boeing was awarded a $400 million contract by the Defense Department for engineering services on B-1 and B-52 strategic bombers. ... more |
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 Syria army allows more pre-2011 conscripts home  
Iraq sentenced 616 foreigners for IS links in 2018Baghdad (AFP) Dec 31, 2018 Iraq sentenced more than 600 foreigners including many women and dozens of minors in 2018 for belonging to the Islamic State group, the judiciary said on Monday. ... more  |
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French defence minister in Jordan to visit troops fighting ISAmman (AFP) Dec 31, 2018 France's defence minister arrived in Jordan on Monday to visit troops battling the Islamic State group, showing Paris's determination to continue the fight after a shock US decision to withdraw from Syria. ... more 
85 FARC members killed in Colombia since peace accord: UNBogota (AFP) Dec 31, 2018 Since Colombia signed a peace deal with left-wing FARC rebels two years ago, 85 members of the former guerrilla movement have been murdered, the United Nations said on Monday. ... more  
Communication interception can be traced through meteor trailsKazan, Russia (SPX) Dec 27, 2018 Meteor burst communication is based on using meteors as cryptography assistants. Meteor trails reflect radio waves, which makes them suitable for radio transmissions at distances of up to 2,000 kilo ... more  
Israeli researchers develop revolutionary space imaging systemJerusalem (XNA) Dec 28, 2018 Israeli researchers developed an imaging system based on a synthetic aperture that stands to revolutionize the economics and imagery available from space-based cameras, Ben-Gurion University reporte ... more 
Weapons radar row flares up between S. Korea and JapanSeoul (AFP) Dec 28, 2018 A row between Seoul and Tokyo escalated Friday after Japan released video it said backed up its claim that a South Korean warship had locked its weapons targeting system onto a Japanese plane. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 24, 2018 
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract for Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target Advanced Capability-3, or Patriot PAC-3, missiles for Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
The contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is worth a total of $3.3 billion for production of the missiles, with associated ground support equipment and initial spares of both PAC-3 missiles an ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 01, 2019 
Raytheon Missile Systems received a $434 million contract for tactical missile modifications, the Defense Department announced.
The contract covers 766 AIM-9X Block II and Block II Plus missiles, known as Sidewinders, as well as guidance units, optical target containers and training missiles. Forty-four percent of the modifications to missiles and equipment were ordered by the U.S. Navy ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2018 
Insitu has won a $12 million contract for spare and sustainment parts for the Blackjack unmanned aircraft system, the Defense Department announced.
The company, a division of Boeing headquartered in Bergen, Wash., was awarded $12,167,690 for firm-fixed-price delivery against a previously issued basic ordering agreement for parts to maintain the Naval Supply Systems Command's RQ-21A Blac ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 24, 2018 
On December 12, DARPA held the second preliminary event of the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) - the world's first collaborative machine-intelligence competition to overcome spectrum scarcity. Fifteen teams represented by members from across the academic, commercial and defense landscapes gathered at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to pit their intelligent radio ... more |
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 Adelphi MD (SPX) Dec 27, 2018  Researchers from the U.S. Army and top universities discovered a new way to get more energy out of energetic materials containing aluminum, common in battlefield systems, by igniting aluminum micron powders coated with graphene oxide.
This discovery coincides with the one of the Army's modernization priorities: Long Range Precision Fires. This research could lead to enhanced energetic perf ... more |
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 Montreal (AFP) Dec 17, 2018 
Canada is looking into ways to cancel a giant 2014 weapons deal with Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday, as criticism mounts over the kingdom's role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the Riyadh-led war in Yemen.
Trudeau had earlier said that it would be "extremely difficult" to withdraw from the contract, signed by the previous conservative administration, ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 2, 2019 
An American ex-Marine arrested in Moscow for alleged espionage is innocent, his family said Tuesday.
The detention of Paul Whelan marked the latest in a series of espionage cases between Russia and the West.
"We have read reports of the arrest in Moscow of Paul Whelan, our son and brother," said a statement posted on Twitter by David Whelan, who said he is the brother of Paul.
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 Upton NY (SPX) Jan 02, 2019 
Hydrogen fuel cells are a promising technology for producing clean and renewable energy, but the cost and activity of their cathode materials is a major challenge for commercialization. Many fuel cells require expensive platinum-based catalysts - substances that initiate and speed up chemical reactions - to help convert renewable fuels into electrical energy. To make hydrogen fuel cells commerci ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Dec 30, 2018 
Iraq's newly appointed education minister has said she tendered her resignation over online accusations her brother was a member of the jihadist Islamic State group.
Shaima al-Hayali announced her decision in a tweet on Saturday, two weeks after parliament approved her nomination, saying she had handed her resignation to Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi.
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 Seoul (AFP) Jan 1, 2019 
Nuclear-armed North Korea wants good relations with the US but could consider a change of approach if Washington maintains its sanctions, leader Kim Jong Un warned in his New Year speech Tuesday after 12 months of diplomatic rapprochement.
At a summit with US President Donald Trump in Singapore in June the two signed a vaguely worded pledge on denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) Dec 21, 2018  Siemens boss Joe Kaeser on Friday lashed out at the practices used by Chinese investors to exercise total control over foreign firms, as disquiet grows about China's appetite for German technology and know-how.
The recent ousting of robotics maker Kuka's chief executive Till Reuter two years after the prestigious German firm was taken over by Chinese group Midea, was just the latest example, ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 01, 2019 
Many climate scientists have been reluctant to directly attribute natural disasters and extreme weather events to global warming. But 2018 forced their hand.
Increasingly, climate scientists are making the connection between climate change and record-setting weather events - storms, droughts, floods, fires, heat waves, cold spells and more.
New statistical analysis methods and i ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Dec 31, 2018 
China successfully launched the No. 3 telecommunication technology test satellite on Tuesday.
The satellite was launched at 0:53 a.m. Beijing Time by a Long March-3C carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The satellite was developed and produced by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 1, 2019 
Hong Kong's embattled democracy advocates kicked off 2019 with a large street rally on Tuesday, lamenting what they said had been a grim year for freedoms and steeling themselves for fresh battles with Beijing.
A thousands-strong crowd - including a small retinue of independence activists - protested over disappearing political freedoms, rising inequality and the local government's perceiv ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Dec 31, 2018 
Iraq sentenced more than 600 foreigners including many women and dozens of minors in 2018 for belonging to the Islamic State group, the judiciary said on Monday.
Iraq declared "victory" over IS at the end of 2017 after a three-year war against the jihadists, who once controlled nearly a third of the country as well as swathes of neighbouring Syria.
Around 20,000 people suspected of links ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 30, 2018 
The U.S. Army is contracting Radiance Technologies for high energy laser lethality research, assessment and support in the amount of $28.2 million.
Work on the contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in Huntsville, Ala., and is expected to be completed by November 2023.
It falls under a small business contract under acquisition rules, though R ... more |
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