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  Moscow (AFP) Aug 23, 2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he has ordered the military to prepare a "symmetric response" after Washington tested a formerly banned missile. Putin said he had ordered an analysis of "the level of threat for our country created by the actions of the US and to take comprehensive measures to prepare a symmetric response". The US Department of Defense said Monday it had tested a type of ground-launched missile that was banned under the 1987 INF agreement, which limited the use of ... read more |
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No change in British backing of Iran nuclear deal under JohnsonBiarritz, France (AFP) Aug 23, 2019 Britain will not change its backing of the 2015 deal on Iran's nuclear programme under new Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a British diplomatic source said Friday, a day ahead of a G7 summit where the Iranian atomic drive is set to be a major sticking point. ... more 
N. Korea's Kim oversaw test of 'multiple rocket launcher': KCNASeoul (AFP) Aug 25, 2019 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test-firing of a "super-large multiple rocket launcher", state media reported Sunday - further muddying the waters for any resumption of denuclearisation talks. ... more 
Trump says 'too soon' to meet Iran's top diplomatBiarritz, France (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 US President Donald Trump said Monday that it was "too early" to meet Tehran's top diplomat, who made a surprise weekend visit to the G7 summit, but insisted that Washington was not looking for regime change in Iran. ... more 
N. Korea says it will remain 'threat' to US, slams PompeoSeoul (AFP) Aug 23, 2019 North Korea on Friday launched a scathing attack on US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, calling him a "diehard toxin" and saying it was "sceptical" whether it can negotiate with him. ... more |
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Hong Kong protesters form human chain 30 years after 'Baltic Way'Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 23, 2019 Thousands of people held hands across Hong Kong late Friday in a dazzling, neon-framed recreation of a pro-democracy "Baltic Way" protest against Soviet rule three decades ago. ... more  
Saudi intercepts six Yemen rebel missiles: coalitionRiyadh (AFP) Aug 25, 2019 Saudi Arabia intercepted six missiles fired by Yemeni rebels at the southern city of Jizan on Sunday, a Riyadh-led military coalition said, as the insurgents escalate cross-border attacks. ... more  
Iraq paramilitary force says Israel behind latest drone attackBaghdad (AFP) Aug 25, 2019 Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi accused Israel of a deadly drone attack on Sunday that left one paramilitary fighter dead, the first time the force has directly blamed the Jewish state for such a raid. ... more  
German army seeks out gamers in hunt for computer-savvy recruitsCologne, Germany (AFP) Aug 24, 2019 Among countless stands of car manufacturers, software developers and engineering universities at Cologne's video games convention, the sight of fatigue-clad soldiers manning the German military's brightly-lit stall draws in the curious. ... more  
US ship sails through Taiwan Strait after fighter jet saleTaipei (AFP) Aug 23, 2019 A US military ship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Friday, the island's defence ministry said, a move likely to further irk Beijing in the wake of Washington's latest arms sales to Taipei. ... more |
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 GenDyn nabs $64.8M contract to outfit British Dreadnought subs  
Boeing wins $23.6M contract to keep Navy F/A-18 planes flyingWashington (UPI) Aug 23, 2019 Boeing Co. was awarded a $23.6 million contract by the U.S. Navy for support in solving maintenance issues of F/A-18 Hornet fighter planes. ... more  |
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Iran denies its Syria positions hit by Israeli strikesTehran (AFP) Aug 25, 2019 A high-ranking Iranian official on Sunday denied Iranian positions had been hit by Israeli air strikes near the Syrian capital overnight. ... more 
Israeli warplanes hit Gaza after Palestinian rocket fire: armyJerusalem (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 Israeli warplanes hit the Gaza Strip's ruling Hamas movement early Monday in response to earlier rocket fire from the territory into Israel, the army said in a statement. ... more  
Two fighters killed in drone attack: Iraq paramilitary forceBaghdad (AFP) Aug 25, 2019 Two paramilitary fighters were killed on Sunday in an unclaimed drone attack near Iraq's western border with Syria, the powerful Hashed al-Shaabi force said in a statement. ... more  
'Game-Changer' for Cosmic Research: NASA Chief Touts Nuclear Powered SpacecraftWashington DC (Sputnik) Aug 23, 2019 Earlier this month, NASA's Future In-Space Operations working group said that its portable nuclear powered reactor will be ready to fly to Mars by 2022. Speaking at a National Space Council (N ... more  
In a quantum future, which starship destroys the other?Hoboken NJ (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 Quantum mechanics boasts all sorts of strange features, one being quantum superposition - the peculiar circumstance in which particles seem to be in two or more places or states at once. Now, an int ... more |
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 Riyadh (AFP) Aug 25, 2019  Saudi Arabia intercepted six missiles fired by Yemeni rebels at the southern city of Jizan on Sunday, a Riyadh-led military coalition said, as the insurgents escalate cross-border attacks.
The missiles fired by the Iran-aligned Huthis targeted civilians in Jizan, the coalition said in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency.
No damage or casualties were reported.
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 23, 2019 
The U.S. Navy's Tomahawk missiles will receive upgrades under a $7.2 million contract with Raytheon, the Defense Department announced.
The deal, announced Thursday, is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement, and will provide an updated technical data package of the guidance test set and upgrade of existing units, including hardware and ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Aug 25, 2019 
Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi accused Israel of a deadly drone attack on Sunday that left one paramilitary fighter dead, the first time the force has directly blamed the Jewish state for such a raid.
The attack struck a position held by Brigade 45, a Hashed al-Shaabi unit based near Al-Qaim about 15 kilometres (10 miles) from Iraq's western desertic border with neighbouring Syria.
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 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Aug 09, 2019 
With the launch of the first EDRS-C communications satellite on 6 August 2019, a milestone has been reached for the EDRS system. EDRS is a globally unique network of geostationary relay satellites that can deliver data volumes of up to 1.8 gigabits per second to Earth with minimal delay using laser communications. The system is a public-private partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA) ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 23, 2019 
A consortium of European countries, led by Estonia, agreed to develop unmanned military ground vehicles on Friday.
The Estonian Center for Defense Investments joined representatives from Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia and Spain in Tallinn to sign an agreement for the development of Modular Unmanned Ground Systems, known as MUGS, with funding from the European Defense Fund, an ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) Aug 20, 2019 
An international arms dealer was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a Los Angeles federal court Monday for conspiring to sell surface-to-air missiles to Libyan militants and other customers in the Middle East.
The trafficking operation run by Rami Najm Asad-Ghanem was described as "breathtaking and frightening" by Judge James Otero, who pronounced the sentence.
Ghanem, a 53-year-old natu ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 
Beijing on Thursday accused Ottawa of worsening bilateral relations after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed to stand up to China amid deepening diplomatic and trade disputes.
The two countries have been locked in a feud since last December, when Canada detained top Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and - in apparent retaliation - China detained two Canadian nationals over espionage- ... more |
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 Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Theoretical physicists at Trinity College Dublin are among an international collaboration that has built the world's smallest engine - which, as a single calcium ion, is approximately ten billion times smaller than a car engine.
Work performed by Professor John Goold's QuSys group in Trinity's School of Physics describes the science behind this tiny motor. The research, published in intern ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Aug 25, 2019  Two paramilitary fighters were killed on Sunday in an unclaimed drone attack near Iraq's western border with Syria, the powerful Hashed al-Shaabi force said in a statement.
The deaths come after a month of mysterious blasts at Hashed al-Shaabi arms depots and training camps that some of the force's top officials blamed on the US.
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 Biarritz, France (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 
US President Donald Trump said Monday that it was "too early" to meet Tehran's top diplomat, who made a surprise weekend visit to the G7 summit, but insisted that Washington was not looking for regime change in Iran.
"It's too soon to meet, I didn't want to," Trump told reporters at the summit, saying he knew that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was going to drop in for unscheduled tal ... more |
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 Biarritz, France (AFP) Aug 24, 2019  EU Council president Donald Tusk said it was hard to imagine the bloc ratifying its trade pact with South America's Mercosur grouping as long as Brazil fails to curb the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest.
The European Union "stands by the EU-Mercosur agreement", Tusk told reporters at a G7 meeting in Biarritz in southern France on Saturday.
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 Ignalina, Lithuania (AFP) Aug 19, 2019 
Walking along the top of Lithuania's decommissioned nuclear reactor, the set of HBO's critically acclaimed "Chernobyl" TV series, tourist Vytas Miknaitis says he's not "afraid at all".
"They know what they're doing," the retired computer engineer from Chicago says, referring to organisers of the three-hour tour of the Ignalina power station in eastern Lithuania.
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 21, 2019 
China's new communication satellite ChinaSat 18, sent into space on Monday, has experienced abnormalities, and space engineers are investigating the cause.
The ChinaSat 18 satellite was launched at 8:03 p.m. (Beijing Time) on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The satellite separated with the carrier rocket a ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 22, 2019  Notifications for the "War Room" WhatsApp group ping relentlessly as an organiser of Hong Kong's biggest political rallies in decades explains the challenge of keeping an exhausted, battle-weary protest movement on the streets.
The semi-autonomous city is in its third month of pro-democracy demonstrations, as Chinese rhetoric against them hardens.
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 
US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has confirmed the death of Hamza Bin Laden, the son and designated heir of Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden.
"That's my understanding," Esper said in an interview late Wednesday with Fox News, when asked if Hamza bin Laden was dead.
"I don't have the details on that. And if I did I'm not sure how much I could share with you," he added.
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 12, 2019 
German defense contractors Rheinmetall and MBDA Deutschland will build a high-energy laser for installation aboard a German navy ship.
While performance specifications or timetables have not yet been developed by the government Federal Office for Bundeswehr Equipment, the announcement last week is the first time the German military has entered the arena of laser weapon development.
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