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  Seoul (AFP) April 18, 2019 North Korea's Kim Jong Un has supervised the test-firing of a new tactical weapon with a "powerful warhead", state media reported Thursday, in the first test of its kind since nuclear negotiations with Washington stalled. The test marks a ratcheting up of tensions weeks after a summit between Kim and US President Donald Trump collapsed without agreement. It also comes after satellite imagery suggested heightened activity at a nuclear test site. Wednesday's test was "conducted in various mode ... read more |
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New Air Force science and technology strategy puts focus on speedArlington VA (AFNS) Apr 18, 2019 Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson unveiled a new and ambitious Science and Technology Strategy designed to better identify, develop and deploy breakthrough technologies, April 17. The ... more  
Percepto launches its all-in-one aerial solution for autonomous operationsCanberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 18, 2019 Percepto has announced that it has launched its all-in-one aerial solution for autonomous security, safety and inspection missions in Australia, following the completion of a series of successful li ... more 
ATLAS wins project with space, missile innovation unitsTraverse City MI (SPX) Apr 18, 2019 ATLAS Space Operations, Inc., a leading innovator in ground communications for the space industry, has announced an agreement to develop its LINKS platform with the Department of Defense's Defense I ... more  
Russian astronomers spot new manoeuvring satellite in Earth orbitMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 18, 2019 The satellite is said to be operating in geostationary orbit, in the same area where the vast majority of Earth's communications and television broadcasting satellites are situated. Astronomer ... more |
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Sea Launch venture may be moved from US to Russia's Far EastMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 17, 2019 The redeployment of the Sea Launch space launch venture from the US State of California to Russia's Far East may be discussed soon, a Russian space industry source told Sputnik. "The possibil ... more  
When debris overwhelms space exploitationBethesda MD (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 We see more and more reports of debris concern among satellite operators and space observers. Add to this the many recent announcements of multiple broadband satellite constellations that are being ... more  
Space Flight Laboratory Reaches Century Milestone in Microspace OperationsToronto, Canada (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 Microspace missions developed and launched by Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) have achieved 100 cumulative years of on-orbit operations. Over two decades, SFL has developed 25 nano- and microsatellite ... more 
CubeSats prove their worth for scientific missionsWashington DC (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 Only a few years ago, the astronomy and heliophysics communities were skeptical about whether CubeSats could reliably obtain scientific data. But these breadloaf-size satellites have proven their ab ... more  
USS Fitzgerald leaves dry dock amid repairsWashington (UPI) Apr 17, 2019 The USS Fitzgerald launched from dry dock and is moored pier-side in Mississippi this week as the guided-missile destroyer took a step closer to being fully repaired after a 2017 collision that left seven sailors dead, the Navy said. ... more |
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Talks in trouble as Taliban slam Afghan guest listKabul (AFP) April 17, 2019 An upcoming conference between Afghan representatives and the Taliban appeared to be in trouble Wednesday even before it begins, with the militants deriding Kabul's plan to send 250 delegates - several of whom have already dropped out. ... more  |
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Iraq PM lands in Riyadh after Tehran visitRiyadh (AFP) April 17, 2019 Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi met Saudi King Salman on Wednesday during his first official trip to Riyadh, days after his maiden visit to the Gulf kingdom's arch-nemesis Iran. ... more  
Iran's Rouhani urges Mideast states to "drive back Zionism"Tehran (AFP) April 18, 2019 Iran's President Hassan Rouhani called on Middle East states on Thursday to "drive back Zionism", in an Army Day tirade against the Islamic republic's archfoe Israel. ... more 
Poppies bloom across Afghanistan as drought easesLashkar Gah, Afghanistan (AFP) April 18, 2019 A vast field of towering white poppies sways gently in the breeze, silky petals sometimes tumbling to the ground, a visible marker of the resilience of Afghanistan's lucrative opium trade. ... more 
Activity detected at North Korea nuclear site: US monitorSeoul (AFP) April 17, 2019 Activity has been detected at North Korea's main nuclear site, suggesting Pyongyang may be reprocessing radioactive material into bomb fuel since the collapse of a summit with Washington, a US monitor said Wednesday. ... more  
Amid worries over Russia, Sweden returns troops to Baltic islandVisby, Sweden (AFP) April 17, 2019 Under an icy rain, camouflage-clad Swedish soldiers crouched behind a log pile, aimed their machine guns towards the Baltic Sea and, at their officers' barked orders, opened fire down the snow-covered range. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 11, 2019 
The United States will temporarily deploy its THAAD anti-missile protection system in Romania this summer, U.S. European Command said Thursday.
The land-based THAAD system, which stands for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, will be used by NATO for its Ballistic Missile Defense systems while the international alliance's existing Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System goes through mainte ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 17, 2019 
The U.S. Navy awarded Boeing a contract modification for Standoff Land Attack Missiles to support Saudi Arabia.
The Department of Defense announced the $30.14 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract Tuesday.
The initial $64 million contract in April 2018 enabled Boeing to "restart" its AGM-84 Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response production line and expand the pro ... more |
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 Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 
Kongsberg Geospatial, an Ottawa-based geospatial visualisation software company, and MicroPilot, world leader in professional UAV autopilots, announced that the Kongsberg Geospatial IRIS UxS Fleet Control Station has been integrated with the MicroPilot MP2x28 series of autopilots to enhance the ability of UAV operators using MicroPilot autopilots to conduct safe BVLOS operations.
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 Menlo Park CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 
A new type of pocket-sized antenna, developed at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, could enable mobile communication in situations where conventional radios don't work, such as under water, through the ground and over very long distances through air.
The device emits very low frequency (VLF) radiation with wavelengths of tens to hundreds of miles. These waves ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 16, 2019 
Boeing has been awarded a 10-year $65 million contract to provide small-diameter bombs to 12 foreign nations.
This contract, which was announced Monday by the U.S. Defense Department, provides for integration, sustainment and support of the small diameter bomb Increment I miniature munition and carriage system on various platforms around the world.
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 Jerusalem (AFP) April 17, 2019 
Israel's defence exports exceeded $7.5 billion (6.6 billion euros) in 2018, with the bulk going to Asia and the Pacific region, the government said Wednesday.
A defence ministry spokeswoman told AFP that the total was down from $9.2 billion in 2017 but that had been an exceptionally strong year.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute put Israel in eighth place in its 2017 t ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 16, 2019 
The USS Ross, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, has been deployed to the Black Sea where Russia's fleet is monitoring its movement.
The Ross, which began its northbound transit of the Dardanelles Strait on Sunday, according to the U.S. Navy, is the fourth U.S. ship to visit the Black Sea since the start of the year.
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 Usurbil, Spain (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 
Compared to so-far used global heating schemes, which are slow and energy-costly, light-controlled heating, using optical degrees of freedom such as light wavelength, polarisation, and power, allows to implement local, efficient, and fast heating schemes for the use in nanomagnetic computation or to quantify collective emergent phenomena in artificial spin systems.
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 Riyadh (AFP) April 17, 2019 
Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi met Saudi King Salman on Wednesday during his first official trip to Riyadh, days after his maiden visit to the Gulf kingdom's arch-nemesis Iran.
The meeting, reported by official Saudi media, comes amid a steady warming of ties between Baghdad and Riyadh after decades of strain.
The two countries signed 13 major agreements, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya t ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 18, 2019 
North Korea has made a very public statement on the test of a new form of "tactical guided" weapon, which was conducted recently under the watchful eye of leader Kim Jong-Un.
Exactly how the world will react to this is unclear at the time of writing, and the North Koreans themselves could have more than one objective. A test like this could have been conducted discreetly, but North Korea d ... more |
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 Jakarta (AFP) April 14, 2019 
Indonesia has become the latest election battleground for Beijing's soaring economic clout, as the opposition warns pro-China policies are saddling the mineral-rich archipelago with bad debt as it is sold off piecemeal to foreign interests.
Business links with top trade partner China have been thrust into the spotlight by ex-general Prabowo Subianto who is challenging Indonesian leader Joko ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) April 12, 2019  At least two people were killed when adjacent apartment buildings collapsed in an impoverished neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro on Friday, Brazilian officials said, days after torrential rain wreaked havoc in the city.
Another seven were injured when the structures in the Muzema favela - where many of the cheaply-made buildings are erected without permits - buckled in the early morning when ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 18, 2019 
China will promote aerospace development, strengthen international cooperation and contribute Chinese wisdom, plans and strength in man's peaceful utilization of outer space, said an official with China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Wednesday.
Zhao Jian, deputy director of the Department of System Engineering of CNSA, said at a press conference that the "Forum on Space Solutions: ... more |
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 Prague (AFP) April 17, 2019 
A Prague art gallery has unveiled a brass bust of the late Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
"It's his first bust in the world so far," Hana Janisova, spokeswoman for the Dox Centre for Contemporary Art, told AFP.
A joint project of Amnesty International, Art for Amnesty, Humanitarian China and Dox, the ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) April 12, 2019 
The UN Security Council on Friday decided to shut down a police mission in Haiti and replace it with a smaller UN political presence even as it admitted that the poor Caribbean nation faces major problems.
The 1,000-strong UN police force known as MINUJUSTH was deployed in 2017, replacing the full-fledged MINUSTAH peacekeeping mission, which was sent after a devastating 2010 earthquake.
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 8, 2019 
Leidos has been awarded a $19.3 million contract for system integration and field testing of a laser weapon system being developed at Kirtland Air Force base in New Mexico.
The contract provides for advancing work on state-of-the-art of laser weapon system technology through research and development of laser weapon systems, as well as evaluate performance in relevant operational environ ... more |
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