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  Washington (UPI) Mar 21, 2019 U.S. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said the U.S. needs a Space Force to maintain the nation's "dominance" in space, and protect the systems the military and country depend on. The Space Force is needed to maintain the edge the United States has over its closest competitors in space technology and capability, Shanahan said.. The issue came about as Shanahan was speaking Wednesday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies about the Defense Department's reorganizatio ... read more |
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China protests US sanctions on shipping firmsBeijing (AFP) March 22, 2019 China has lodged a diplomatic protest with the United States after Washington sanctioned two Chinese shipping companies for doing business with North Korea, the foreign ministry said Friday. ... more 
Pyongyang sanctions workarounds failing to soften impactSeoul (AFP) March 21, 2019 North Korea's illicit and highly sophisticated efforts to circumvent UN sanctions may have sought to cushion their impact, but they offer no long-term solution to the fallout of tightened economic isolation, analysts say. ... more  
Macron hails Europe 'awakening' to China threatBrussels (AFP) March 21, 2019 French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that Europe was "finally" united in addressing the threat from China, as Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a five-day tour of the continent. ... more  
DARPA taps BAE for autonomous air mission planning softwareWashington (UPI) Mar 21, 2019 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded BAE Systems a new contract for its work on an autonomous air mission planning system for the U.S. military. ... more |
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China protests Taiwan leader's US transitBeijing (AFP) March 21, 2019 China on Thursday protested Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen's stopover in the United States after a visit to three Pacific nations, calling on Washington to block her transit. ... more  
Post-IS, north Iraq's minority mosaic blown apart by traumaSinjar, Iraq (AFP) March 21, 2019 For decades, his land was his life. Now, like other Sunni Arab farmers in Iraq's diverse north, Mahdi Abu Enad is cut off from his fields, fearing reprisal attacks. ... more  
Twenty years ago, NATO launches strikes on SerbiaParis (AFP) March 21, 2019 On March 24, 1999 NATO started 11 weeks of air strikes on Yugoslavia, after a year of pressure on president Slobodan Milosevic to stop his deadly crackdown on Kosovo separatists. ... more  
China 'invites' EU diplomats to visit XinjiangBeijing (AFP) March 21, 2019 China said Thursday it had invited European diplomats to visit the restive northwest region of Xinjiang, where Beijing is accused of rights abuses against the ethnic Uighur Muslims. ... more 
ToniBler and Klinton: Gratitude for West lives on in Kosovar namesPristina (AFP) March 21, 2019 Streets lined with US flags, murals thanking NATO, and boys named ToniBler and Klinton: Kosovars have no shortage of ways to thank Western powers for intervening 20 years ago to end the war with Serbia. ... more |
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 France pours cold water on Trump's NATO Brazil musings 
Brazil's closer ties with US a risky strategy: analystsBrasilia (AFP) March 20, 2019 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's pursuit of closer ties with the United States risked compromising the Latin American country's foreign interests and leaving it alienated, analysts warned. ... more  |
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DARPA Launches Social Media Platform to Accelerate R and DWashington DC (SPX) Mar 21, 2019 DARPA aims to apply the power of social networks to research and development via a novel social media platform purpose-built to quicken the pace of U.S. technology development. Polyplexus, which was ... more  
US space to counter alleged hypersonic weapons threat says ShanahanWashington DC (Sputnik) Mar 21, 2019 The United States will use its new space force military branch to counter the alleged threat of hypersonic weapons systems that are being developed by China and Russia, Acting Defense Secretary Patr ... more  
Orbit CS and Inmarsat announce airborne satcom terminal agreementWashington DC (SPX) Mar 21, 2019 Orbit Communication Systems Ltd. and Inmarsat Government have announced a long-term agreement to offer end-users a new modular, multi-role aviation terminal, optimized for use over Inmarsat's Global ... more 
Civilian deaths mount as US drone strikes in Somalia escalate: AmnestyNairobi (AFP) March 20, 2019 Amnesty International Wednesday accused US forces of killing several civilians in Somalia as they "dramatically increased" the number of air strikes in the volatile country, but the US military denied the deaths. ... more 
US turning space into new battlefield, justifies its supremacy bid claims BeijingBeijing (Sputnik) (SPX) Mar 21, 2019 By accusing Russia and China of creating threats in space, Washington justifies its aspiration to gain military supremacy and develop advanced weapons, the Chinese Foreign Ministry's spokesman, Geng ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 15, 2019 
The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman a $713 million contract to provide a missile system for Poland as the United States considers setting up a major military base in the former Communist nation.
The contract is for the first phase of Poland's Wisla Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System, Northrop Gumman said in news releases Wednesday. Patriots are deployed in t ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 15, 2019 
The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a $506.9 million contract to build the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles.
The contract is for incidental services, hardware, facilities, equipment, as well as all technical, planning, management, manufacturing and testing efforts to produce the Patriot, which is an acronym for the Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target, the Departme ... more |
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 Berlin (AFP) March 19, 2019 
Germany must ensure that the United States respects international laws when deploying drones over Yemen, a German court ruled Tuesday, in what amounted to a partial victory for three Yemeni plaintiffs.
The trio had turned to the court after losing close relatives to a drone attack in 2012 in Hadramaut province.
Pointing to the significance of the US airbase in the German town of Ramstein ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket carrying the tenth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite for the U.S. Air Force lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37 on March 15 at 8:26 p.m. EDT. ULA has been the exclusive launch provider for all ten WGS satellites.
"We are very proud to deliver this critical asset to orbit in support of the U.S. and Allied warfighters deployed around th ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 21, 2019 
DARPA aims to apply the power of social networks to research and development via a novel social media platform purpose-built to quicken the pace of U.S. technology development. Polyplexus, which was recently launched as a public platform, is designed to increase access to scientific evidence and accelerate hypothesis development, research proposal generation, and research sponsor engagement. The ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 21, 2019 
A group of NGOs on Thursday urged France to suspend the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia and to work for a political solution in Yemen which has been ravaged by four years of conflict.
"I don't know how many more Yemenis have to die, be injured or go hungry before the world decides that the war must end," Radhya Almutawakel, head of Yemen Mwatana human rights organisation told a press conference ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 20, 2019 
France on Wednesday appeared to nix US President Donald Trump's suggestion that Brazil could become a NATO member while opening the door to making the South American country one of the alliance's "global partners."
In a statement, the foreign ministry noted that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's charters define a "specific geographical scope of application."
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 Houston TX (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 
Even the smallest mechanical pumps have limitations, from the complex microfabrication techniques required to make them to the fact that there are limits on how small they can be. Researchers have announced a potential solution - a laser-driven photoacoustic microfluidic pump, capable of moving fluids in any direction without moving parts or electrical contacts.
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 Sinjar, Iraq (AFP) March 21, 2019 
For decades, his land was his life. Now, like other Sunni Arab farmers in Iraq's diverse north, Mahdi Abu Enad is cut off from his fields, fearing reprisal attacks.
He hails from the mountainous region of Sinjar, which borders Syria and is home to an array of communities - Shiite and Sunni Arabs, Kurds, and Yazidis.
That patchwork was ripped apart when the Islamic State group rampaged ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 21, 2019 
France on Thursday called for Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh to be released and warned Tehran that its adherence to a nuclear accord does not give it a blank cheque on human rights.
"We will do all we can to secure the release of Mrs Sotoudeh", French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told the upper chamber Senate.
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 Rome (AFP) March 22, 2019 
Chinese President Xi Jinping kicked off a whistlestop European tour in Rome on Friday amid growing Western unease over Italy joining the ever-expanding Asian giant's new Silk Road project.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is to sign a memorandum of understanding with Xi on Saturday for Italy to join the $1 trillion Belt and Road Initiative, the first G7 member to do so, despite apparent divisio ... more |
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 Mosul, Iraq (AFP) March 22, 2019 
The capsizing of a Tigris river ferry packed with Iraqi families celebrating Kurdish New Year in Mosul left at least 100 people dead, mostly women and children, the interior ministry said Friday, as grief and anger swept the Iraqi city.
Residents of the northern city, scarred by years of jihadist rule, demanded justice as Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi decreed three days of national mournin ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Mar 12, 2019 
Chinese scientists are designing what is expected to be the world's most powerful rocket, according to a senior researcher.
Li Hong, deputy general manager at China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, said the Long March 9 super heavy-lift carrier rocket will be capable of lifting 140 metric tons of payload into a low-Earth orbit, or a 50-ton spacecraft to a lunar transfer orbit. The gi ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 21, 2019 
A labour activist has been detained by police in southern China, his wife said Thursday, amid a crackdown on students and activists advocating for worker rights.
Wei Zhili, 30, an editor at a Chinese labour rights media site, was apprehended Wednesday by police in Guangzhou, southern Guangdong province, for "disturbing public order", his wife and prominent feminist Zheng Churan told AFP.
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 Baghouz , Syria (AFP) March 19, 2019 
Holdout jihadists scurried along the reedy banks of the Euphrates in an increasingly desperate defence Tuesday of the last scrap of their "caliphate" in eastern Syria.
Advancing Kurdish-led forces forced diehard fighters from the Islamic State group out of the main encampment where they had been confined in recent days.
The move brought a months-old operation to wipe out the last vestige ... more |
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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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