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  Beijing (AFP) Jan 9, 2019 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly visited a pharmaceutical factory in China on Wednesday as he seeks economic support from his key ally along with diplomatic backing before his expected summit with Donald Trump. Kim arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for a fourth visit to his country's sole major diplomatic friend, a trip seen as a strategy session ahead of his possible second meeting with the US president on Pyongyang's nuclear programme. The unannounced trip has been largely shrouded in se ... read more |
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Brazil defense minister says sees no reason for US baseRio De Janeiro (AFP) Jan 8, 2019 Brazil's defense minister said in an interview published Tuesday he did not see any reason for a US military base to be established in Brazilian soil, as new President Jair Bolsonaro had floated last week. ... more  
Honeywell and GetSAT win multi-million dollar deal with US GovernmentRehovot, Israel (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 GetSAT, an innovator in lightweight satellite communication terminals for ground, airborne, and maritime applications, reports it has been awarded, in partnership with a division of Honeywell, a mul ... more 
Hughes to supply BGAN terminals for Space and Naval Warfare Systems CenterGermantown MD (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Hughes Network Systems reports that the US Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic ordered over 200 of the Hughes 9211 Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) satellite terminals. P ... more 
North Korea's Kim visits China ahead of expected Trump summitBeijing (AFP) Jan 8, 2019 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived Tuesday on an unannounced visit to Beijing for talks with President Xi Jinping, as preparations ramp up for an expected second summit with Donald Trump. ... more |
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High-tech border wall plan on display at CESLas Vegas (AFP) Jan 8, 2019 The same technology used in self-driving cars is being touted as a potential high-tech solution to the US border wall conundrum - with some added benefits. ... more  
GenDyn contracted for maintenance, upgrades on USS George H.W. BushWashington (UPI) Jan 8, 2019 General Dynamics has been awarded a $91.4 million contract for the planning and execution of maintenance and upgrades to the USS George H.W. Bush, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy. ... more  
L-3 tapped for comms system on MH-60R Seahawk helicoptersWashington (UPI) Jan 8, 2019 L-3 Technologies has been tasked by the U.S. Navy with manufacturing and supporting the Hawklink AN/SRQ-4 secure communications system. ... more 
Air Force conducts first F-35 test flight led by female pilotWashington (UPI) Jan 8, 2019 The first F-35 flight test led by a woman was completed in mid-December, the U.S. Air Force said Tuesday. ... more  
US envoy on new Afghanistan peace tripWashington (AFP) Jan 8, 2019 US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad headed Tuesday on a trip to Afghanistan and regional powers in a fresh bid to negotiate an end to 17 years of war. ... more |
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NASA reveals reason behind Roscosmos Head's cancelled visit: SputnikMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 07, 2019 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said he had rescinded an invitation to Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos, to visit the United States because he wanted to a ... more  |
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Trudeau, Trump denounce China's 'arbitrary detention' of CanadiansOttawa (AFP) Jan 7, 2019 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and US President Donald Trump denounced China's "arbitrary detention" of two Canadians during a telephone call Monday, officials said. ... more 
First U.S. ship since Russian seizure of Ukrainian ships arrives in Black SeaWashington (UPI) Jan 7, 2019 A U.S. Navy ship entered the Black Sea over the weekend for the first time since Russia seized three Ukrainian vessels there last year. ... more 
China says UN observers welcome to Xinjiang, with conditionsBeijing (AFP) Jan 7, 2019 China said Monday it would welcome UN officials to the restive western region of Xinjiang with the condition that they stay out of the country's internal affairs. ... more  
Difficulties in Planned Soyuz Launches Preparation to Emerge in 2020 - SourceMoscow (Sputnik) Dec 31, 2018 The preparation and holding of planned launches of the Russian Soyuz-2 carrier rockets at Baikonur Cosmodrome will face technical difficulties in 2020, a source in the aerospace industry told Sputni ... more  
ESA's Hera mission to carry pair of CubeSats to asteroid systemWashington (UPI) Jan 7, 2019 With Hera, the European Space Agency is aiming to become the first to put a space probe in orbit around a binary asteroid system. When Hera launches in 2023, it will be carrying at least two CubeSats. ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Jan 3, 2019 
The US military will this year conduct its first ever missile drill around the Japanese island of Okinawa, according to a report Thursday, as Washington seeks to counter an increasingly assertive China.
The US military has told its Japanese counterpart it plans to deploy surface-to-ship missiles in the strategically important Okinawa this year for the first such drill by Japan's key ally, th ... 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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 New Delhi, India (SPX) Jan 06, 2019 
Hughes Communications India has been selected to provide a high-performance satellite broadband system for India's Naval Communication Network (NCN).
Sterlite Tech, a global data network solutions company, chose the Hughes system to deliver C- and Ku-band satellite services as part of its hybrid IP-MPLS (Internet Protocol - Multi Protocol Label Switching) network. Under the year-long contr ... more |
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 Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 8, 2019  The same technology used in self-driving cars is being touted as a potential high-tech solution to the US border wall conundrum - with some added benefits.
At least one startup at the Consumer Electronics show is showcasing how Lidar, a laser-based detection system widely used in autonomous vehicles, could be deployed along the US-Mexico border at a far lower cost than a physical wall or fe ... more |
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 Zagreb (AFP) Jan 3, 2019 
Croatia threatened to cancel its purchase of F-16 fighter jets from Israel on Thursday after months of stalling due to a lack of US approval.
Croatia had in March agreed to buy 12 used F-16s from Israel to replace its Russian-made MiG-21s.
The deal, worth $500 million (440 million euros), was the Balkan nation's biggest arms purchase since splitting from former Yugoslavia in the 1990s ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) Jan 8, 2019 
Canadian consular officials visited a Canadian being held in China on Tuesday, nearly a month after he and a compatriot were arrested for alleged spying.
No details of businessman Michael Spavor's condition were provided, however, due to Canadian privacy laws.
China detained Spavor on December 12, two days after former diplomat Michael Kovrig, accusing them both of activities that "enda ... more |
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 Upton NY (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
This holiday season, scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) - a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory - have wrapped a box of a different kind. Using a one-step chemical synthesis method, they engineered hollow metallic nanosized boxes with cube-shaped pores at the corners and demonstrated how these "nanowrappers" can be ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Jan 7, 2019 
Visits by Iraqi officials to Israel announced by the Jewish state stirred controversy Monday in Iraq, where the deputy parliamentary speaker demanded a probe to identify those who crossed a "red line".
Israel's foreign ministry said on Twitter on Sunday that three Iraqi delegations visited Israel in 2018, and details were also later released by media.
Baghdad does not recognise Israel, a ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 3, 2019 
The United States on Thursday warned Iran of consequences if it goes ahead with plans to send off three space launch vehicles, charging despite Tehran's denials that the move would violate a UN resolution.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Iran's satellite-delivery rockets used technology "virtually identical" to nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, which could eventually include long- ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 9, 2019 
US and Chinese officials extended trade war talks into a third day on Wednesday, with a member of the American delegation saying negotiations "went just fine".
The US officials have been in Beijing since Monday for the first sit-down talks since President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed on December 1 to a three-month truce on a tit-for-tat trade spat.
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 Arsal, Lebanon (AFP) Jan 8, 2019 
Heavy rains and snow wrecked several informal settlements housing Syrian refugees in Lebanon and left thousands in need of emergency assistance, aid workers said on Tuesday.
Some of the worst affected were the refugees living in Arsal, a mountainous border area in northern Lebanon where the roofs of rudimentary shacks caved under the weight of the snow.
"Look at this weather, we are cut ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 6, 2019 
During the Cold War, US eyes were riveted on the Soviet Union's rockets and satellites. But in recent years, it has been China's space programs that have most worried US strategists.
China, whose space effort is run by the People's Liberation Army, today launches more rockets into space than any other country - 39 last year, compared to 31 by the United States, 20 by Russia and eight by Eur ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) Jan 4, 2019 Thirteen Canadians have been detained in China following the arrest on December 1 of a senior executive from Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei, Ottawa said Thursday, with eight subsequently released.
Global Affairs Canada spokesperson Guillaume Berube confirmed the detentions to AFP, adding the figures excluded Hong Kong.
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 Baghdad (AFP) Jan 8, 2019 
Security forces in Iraqi Kurdistan have been "torturing children" to force them to confess to having links with the jihadist Islamic State group, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
The rights group said it interviewed 23 boys aged between 14 and 17 who were charged with, or convicted of, belonging to IS, and that 16 of them said they had been "tortured" during questioning.
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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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