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  Washington (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 The US special envoy for North Korea will head to Pyongyang on Wednesday for talks ahead of a much-anticipated second summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, the State Department said Monday. In addition to preparations for the summit, Stephen Biegun's meetings with North Korean official Kim Hyok Chol will "advance further progress on the commitments the president and Chairman Kim made in Singapore: complete denuclearization, transforming US-DPRK relations and building a lasting peace on the Ko ... read more |
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UN experts say North Korea shielding missiles at airportsUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs remain intact and Pyongyang is using airports and other facilities to shield its weapons from possible US military strikes, according to a UN panel of experts. ... more 
Russia to develop new missile systems in 2 years after treaty pulloutMoscow (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 Russia's defence minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday said the country must develop new types of missile systems in the next two years after Washington and Moscow ripped up a key arms control treaty. ... more 
Latvia seeks international treaty after ill-fated missile pactWashington (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 Latvia's foreign minister called Tuesday for long-term diplomacy to reach a new international agreement on intermediate-range missiles after the collapse of a landmark treaty between Russia and the United States. ... more  
Top general not consulted before Trump's Syria pull-out decisionWashington (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 The top general overseeing US military actions in the Middle East said Tuesday that President Donald Trump did not consult him ahead of the decision to pull US troops from Syria. ... more |
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Ford-class Ship Self Defense System undergoes first live testWashington (UPI) Feb 5, 2019 Raytheon and the U.S. Navy completed the first test of the Ship Self Defense System Integrated Combat System aboard the first of the new class of aircraft carriers, the USS Gerald R. Ford. ... more 
BIW nets $719M contract for DDG 51-class planning yard servicesWashington (UPI) Feb 5, 2019 Bath Iron Works, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, was awarded a contract to continue providing planning yard services for DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers. ... more  
Last operational F-18 Hornet squadron flies into the sunsetWashington (UPI) Feb 5, 2019 During a sundown ceremony, the last operational F/A-18C Hornet squadron took flight over Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va., as the military transitions to new jets. ... more  
US must probe if weapons went to Yemen militias: US generalWashington (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 The US must examine whether American-made military gear in Yemen is being transferred to unintended recipients, including Al-Qaeda and Iran-backed rebels, a top general said on Tuesday. ... more  
Photographers in Iraq's Mosul snap dark days, bright futuresMosul, Iraq (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 Ashraf al-Atraqji carefully stepped around tufts of weeds sprouting in a mountain of rubble in Iraq's Mosul, found a seat on a sun-soaked rock, and struck a pose for the photographer. ... more |
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 Protest in New York over fate of China's Uighurs  
UK believes photographer held by IS still alive: reportsLondon (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 A British photographer kidnapped by the Islamic State group more than six years ago could still be alive and in captivity, media reports said on Tuesday citing Britain's Security Minister Ben Wallace. ... more  |
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Prince of IS-ravaged Yazidis buried in IraqSheikhan, Irak (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 Some prayed while others cried as a dozen men surrounded by a sea of mourners carefully lowered the coffin of the Yazidi spiritual leader into a freshly dug grave on Tuesday. ... more  
Kabul must be involved in peace talks: US generalWashington (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 The Afghan government must be involved in talks between the US and the Taliban if a push for a peace deal is to be successful, a top general said Tuesday. ... more 
Assassination of Iraqi writer provokes indignationKarbala, Iraq (AFP) Feb 3, 2019 The assassination of a writer in the middle of a street in the Shiite holy city of Karbala at the weekend has provoked indignation in Iraqi cultural circles. ... more  
Government of Canada Awards Microsatellite Contract to Space Flight Laboratory for Arctic SurveillanceToronto, Canada (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 The Canadian Department of National Defence has awarded a C$15 million contract to Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) for development ... more  
New photos show russia's first hypersonic space droneMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 05, 2019 Sputnik has obtained an image of the prototype of Russia's reusable single-engine unmanned spacecraft. The second image shows a diagram depicting how the drone will be put into orbit and retur ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 4, 2019 
Lockheed Martin Corp. and Raytheon Co. have been awarded separate U.S. Army contracts totaling nearly $45 million for foreign customers of Patriot missile systems.
The Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target Advanced Capability-3, or Patriot PAC-3, are used to defend against incoming threats, including tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and aircraft. The PAC-3 missi ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) Feb 2, 2019  Iran announced the "successful test" of a new cruise missile with a range of over 1,350 kilometres on Saturday, coinciding with celebrations for the country's 1979 Islamic revolution.
"The test of the Hoveizeh cruise missile was carried out successfully at a range of 1,200 kilometres (840 miles) and accurately hit the set target," Defence Minister Amir Hatami said, quoted on state television ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 05, 2019 
German forces recently began a training course at the Tel Nof airbase in Rehovot, Israel, in an effort to learn the surveillance capabilities of the costly Heron TP unmanned surveillance drone.
The German officials, a pilot and sensor operator, began the eight-week training session in late January, according to the Jerusalem Post, which reported that the drone training is expected to conti ... more |
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 Annapolis Junction, MD (SPX) Jan 30, 2019 
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a Prototype Project Agreement through an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) with Consortium Management Group (CMG) on behalf of Consortium for Command, Control and Communications in Cyberspace (C5)valued at $18 million to design, develop and test a cyber/electronic warfare podded system for the "Air Large" component of the U.S. Army's Multi-Function Electronic War ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 31, 2019 
Denmark, France and the Netherlands have become the first nations to receive shipments of new anti-tank weapons under a NATO multinational sharing project that is expected to reduce defense expenses.
The program, called Land Battle Decisive Munition, involves 16 allies and three NATO partners as a way to strengthen NATO's collective defense, NATO said in a news release.
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 1, 2019 
Twenty-six members of the Senate Armed Services and Budget Committee have urged the Pentagon to complete its audit.
In a letter to Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, the bipartisan signatories expressed concern that the audit will be delayed or compromisedafter its leader, Pentagon Comptroller David Norquist, was elevated to acting deputy defense secretary.
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 
The top general overseeing US military actions in the Middle East said Tuesday that President Donald Trump did not consult him ahead of the decision to pull US troops from Syria.
Trump last month claimed the Islamic State group had been defeated in Syria and said all US troops were "coming back now."
The president had long questioned America's multiple and seemingly interminable wars, bu ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 
A ceramic that becomes more electrically conductive under elastic strain and less conductive under plastic strain could lead to a new generation of sensors embedded into structures like buildings, bridges and aircraft able to monitor their own health.
The electrical disparity fostered by the two types of strain was not obvious until Rice University's Rouzbeh Shahsavari, an assistant profes ... more |
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 Sheikhan, Irak (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 
Some prayed while others cried as a dozen men surrounded by a sea of mourners carefully lowered the coffin of the Yazidi spiritual leader into a freshly dug grave on Tuesday.
Prince Tahseen Said Ali, the longtime head of the world's Yazidi minority brutally targeted by Islamic State group jihadists in Iraq, died in Germany at the end of January aged 85.
For many he was a "symbol" and a " ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 
Latvia's foreign minister called Tuesday for long-term diplomacy to reach a new international agreement on intermediate-range missiles after the collapse of a landmark treaty between Russia and the United States.
The NATO ally has supported the US decision to leave the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, agreeing with Washington that a new Russian missile system violated the 1987 ... more |
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 Berlin (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 
Fear of China appears set to divert Germany from decades of hands-off economic policy, as Berlin plans a public investment fund to block hostile takeovers of high-tech firms from abroad and calls for new mega-mergers.
Aware he was making a rare break with conventional wisdom, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier took pains to set limits to his public investment scheme, one element of the "nationa ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 4, 2019  The United States will send an additional 3,750 troops to its frontier with Mexico, the Pentagon said Sunday, as President Donald Trump doubled down on his call for a wall to boost border security.
Soldiers were originally deployed to the border under an order President Donald Trump gave before midterm elections in November as "caravans" of migrants made their way to the border to seek asylu ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 05, 2019 
An experiment that saw the first-ever plant sprouting on the moon last month was born in a natural disaster that devastated China's cotton-industry almost three decades ago.
Li Fuguang was one of the Chinese agricultural scientists whose years of hard work might one day help lead to a base and long-term human residence on the moon.
He was on the team that developed the cotton seeds c ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 2, 2019 
A bishop from China's "underground" Catholic church is slated to step up as the official state-backed clergyman for a diocese in central China, state-run media reported, amid a thaw in relations between Beijing and the Holy See.
China's estimated 10 million Catholics are legally supposed to attend only churches governed by a state-controlled body with clergy appointed by the Communist Party. ... more |
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 London (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 
A British photographer kidnapped by the Islamic State group more than six years ago could still be alive and in captivity, media reports said on Tuesday citing Britain's Security Minister Ben Wallace.
"Wallace told reporters in London that the British government believes (John) Cantlie is still being held by ISIS," CNN reported, using another name for the IS jihadist group.
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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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