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  Washington (AFP) Jan 27, 2019 As Donald Trump seeks progress with North Korea at a second summit, the United States has a series of cards it can play including easing sanctions, signing a peace declaration or even pulling troops from South Korea. After the historic handshake between the US president and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore in June, Washington policymakers are adamant on the need for tangible concessions by Pyongyang on its nuclear program at the sequel meeting, which Trump says will take place around lat ... read more |
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Iran accuses France of 'destabilising' regionTehran (AFP) Jan 26, 2019 Iran has accused France of being a destabilising force in the region after its foreign minister threatened new sanctions against Tehran over its missile programme. ... more 
Harris receives $72M contract for Air Force space and missile systemsWashington DC (UPI) Jan 25, 2019 Harris Corp. Space and Intelligence Systems was awarded a $72 million contract for combat missions systems support, according to the Department of Defense. ... more  
NATO says no progress in Russia talks on arms treatyBrussels (AFP) Jan 25, 2019 Senior NATO and Russian officials failed to make a breakthrough Friday in talks on saving the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, raising the spectre of a renewed arms race in Europe. ... more 
Army preps troop, equipment rotation in Europe for Atlantic ResolveWashington DC (UPI) Jan 25, 2019 U.S. Army Europe announced rotations of its armored and aviation units, with equipment to arrive in Europe within two weeks. ... more |
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AECOM gets $9M Army contract for assault breacher suppliesWashington DC (UPI) Jan 25, 2019 AECOM Management Services Corp. received a $9 million contract for equipment and parts used on the Assault Breacher Vehicle. ... more  
Trudeau sacks Canadian envoy to China after Huawei controversyOttawa (AFP) Jan 26, 2019 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday said he had sought and accepted the resignation of Ottawa's ambassador to China, days after the diplomat sparked controversy with criticism of the US extradition request for a top Huawei executive. ... more 
Beijing dismisses Soros' anti-China remarks as 'meaningless'Beijing (AFP) Jan 25, 2019 China dismissed remarks from George Soros as "meaningless" on Friday, after the billionaire investor called President Xi Jinping the "most dangerous opponent" of free societies and warned against Beijing's high-tech surveillance regime. ... more  
Austal contracted for post-delivery work on USS CincinnatiWashington DC (UPI) Jan 25, 2019 Austal USA has been awarded a $16.3 million contract for extended industrial post-delivery availability of the littoral combat ship USS Cincinnati. ... more  
Air Force accepts first two KC-46 tanker planes from BoeingWashington DC (UPI) Jan 25, 2019 Boeing delivered the first two next-generation KC-46 tanker planes to the U.S. Air Force, before the planes took off Friday to their first operating base. ... more |
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Muslim self-rule backed in Philippines' troubled southManila (AFP) Jan 25, 2019 Voters have decisively approved a new Muslim-led region in the Philippines' south, which is hoped will bring a measure of peace after decades of fighting killed thousands and mired the area in poverty. ... more  |
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Iraq priest who saved Christian heritage ordained Mosul archbishopMosul, Iraq (AFP) Jan 25, 2019 An Iraqi priest who saved a trove of religious manuscripts from the Islamic State group was ordained on Friday as the new Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul. ... more  
Protesters storm Turkish base in Iraq's Kurdish regionErbil, Iraq (AFP) Jan 26, 2019 Kurdish protesters stormed a Turkish army position in northwestern Iraq on Saturday, with witnesses reporting a number of casualties and damage. ... more 
Afghanistan investigates claims civilians killed in air strikewKabul (AFP) Jan 25, 2019 Afghanistan is investigating reports that at least 16 civilians including women and children were killed in an air strike in southern Helmand province, the defence ministry said in a statement Friday. ... more
Soros calls China's Xi 'most dangerous' foe of free societiesDavos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 24, 2019 Billionaire investor George Soros on Thursday said Chinese President Xi Jinping was "the most dangerous enemy" of free societies for presiding over a high-tech surveillance regime. ... more 
Ties between US, Russia and China 'dysfunctional': UNDavos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 24, 2019 The world is facing worrying "fragmentation", UN chief Antonio Guterres said Thursday, warning that the relationship between the United States, Russia and China was worryingly out of kilter. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 23, 2019 
German defense contractor Rheinmetall has been awarded a "double-digit million-euro" contract by the Swedish armed forces for vehicles to transport Patriot missile systems, the company announced.
Forty high-mobility trucks will be built by Rheinmetall's Munich-based MAN Military Vehicles division, including 16 tractor trucks and 24 transport vehicles based on the company's HX series. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 16, 2019  The MBDA Missile Systems' medium-range missile was successfully deployed in Mali by the French Army for the first time, the company announced.
The Picardy Battle Group used the missile, called the Missile Moyenne Portable, or MMP, for the first time in a combat environment in December, MBDA announced Wednesday.
A six-person crew delivered the system by armored car, then installed ... more |
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 Pingtung, Taiwan (AFP) Jan 24, 2019 
Taiwan's navy showed off its latest long-range surveillance drone Thursday as the island's outgunned armed forces push to counter China's increasingly muscular rhetoric and military exercises.
China still sees Taiwan as part of its territory to be reunified, despite the two sides being ruled separately since they split in 1949 after a civil war.
Beijing has said it will not hesitate to u ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 23, 2019 
DARPA's Radio Frequency Risk Reduction Deployment Demonstration (R3D2) is set for launch in late February to space-qualify a new type of membrane reflectarray antenna. The antenna, made of a tissue-thin Kapton membrane, packs tightly for stowage during launch and then will deploy to its full size of 2.25 meters in diameter once it reaches low Earth orbit.
R3D2 will monitor antenna deployme ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 23, 2019 
BAE Systems has been awarded a $474 million contract for support of the newest version of its M109 family of vehicles for the U.S. Army.
The contract, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, covers system technical support and sustainment, systems engineering, program management, logistics support, and software maintenance and management for the M109 family of vehicles.
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 9, 2019 
Nearly $28 billion in funds appropriated to the Pentagon were left unspent when its authority to spend it expired in 2018, a government watchdog report says.
"If the DoD [Department of Defense] does not spend its funds within the legal timeframes, the funds expire. In FY 2018, the DoD reported $27.7 billion of expired funds, meaning that, generally, the DoD can no longer use those funds ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Jan 25, 2019 
Senior NATO and Russian officials failed to make a breakthrough Friday in talks on saving the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, raising the spectre of a renewed arms race in Europe.
Western capitals allege that Russia's latest generation of medium-range missiles breach the terms of the Cold War era INF treaty, and put European cities at risk.
The United States has warned that it ... more |
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 Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Jan 28, 2019 
Platinum, a noble metal, is oxidised more quickly than expected under conditions that are technologically relevant. This has emerged from a study jointly conducted by the DESY NanoLab and the University of Vienna.
Devices that contain platinum, such as the catalytic converters used to reduce exhaust emissions in cars, can suffer a loss in efficacy as a result of this reaction. The team aro ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Jan 24, 2019 
Iraqi lawmakers on Thursday approved the government's 2019 budget, which at $111.8 billion is one of the largest ever for the oil-rich country.
It represents a nearly 45 percent increase from last year and awards even more money for public salaries, including those of the northern Kurdish region.
Nearly 90 percent of the budget comes from oil revenues.
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 24, 2019 
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Thursday that the Doomsday Clock would remain at two minutes until midnight.
Humanity has never been closer to catastrophe, according to the scientists and policy makers responsible for setting the clock. Last year, scientists set the clock at two minutes until midnight due to rising tensions between Russia and the United States, North Kor ... more |
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 Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Jan 26, 2019 
A multi-billion dollar China-backed rail project in Malaysia has been scrapped, government officials said Saturday, adding that the cost of building it was too high.
Malaysia has in recent months suspended several major projects signed under the country's previous scandal-plagued regime, in a bid to cut the country's massive one trillion ringgit ($251 billion) debt.
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 Kathmandu (AFP) Jan 24, 2019 
The United Nations cautioned Nepal Thursday that it risked failing war crimes victims as a deadline for investigating atrocities during its decade-long Maoist conflict draws near without a single case being resolved.
Nepal established two commissions in 2015 to probe abuses by government forces and Maoist rebels during the civil war that left 17,000 dead and others missing without a trace. ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 14, 2019 
As the Chang'e-4 probe made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, a senior Chinese space expert said China will deepen its lunar exploration and venture further into the unknown.
China's current lunar program includes three phases: orbiting, landing, and returning. The first two phases have been accomplished, and the next step is to launch the Chang'e-5 probe to collect ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Jan 24, 2019 
Australia on Thursday demanded China handle the case of detained author Yang Hengjun "transparently and fairly," amid a growing row about the fate of the Chinese-Australian.
Yang - a novelist, democracy advocate and former Chinese diplomat - was detained shortly after he made a rare return to China from the United States last week.
Friend and colleague Chongyi Feng told AFP he believes ... more |
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 London (AFP) Jan 17, 2019 
A heavily-armed man seen working with Kenyan forces and helping victims during the Nairobi attack this week was a member of Britain's special forces, British media reported on Thursday, citing officials.
"Without this British special forces soldier, many more lives would have been lost," the Daily Mirror quoted a senior British military source as saying.
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 23, 2019 
The U.S. Air Force announced it is planning future experiments involving laser and microwave energy weapons after recent successes in testing sessions.
Future experiments in the Directed Energy Experimentation Campaign are planned at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the Air Force said Tuesday in a statement.
The tests by the 704th Test Group, essentially the use of mi ... more |
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