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  New Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2019 India is comfortably positioned economically to provide funds for its space programme and benefits to people, the country's space organisation chief has said. Addressing students at a university convocation ceremony in Bangalore (now Bengaluru), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K. Sivan said some people were questioning the need for space technology in a poor country like India, a notion that he said was no longer true. "India's economy is the seventh-largest by nominal GDP ... read more |
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NASA Robots Compete Underground in DARPA ChallengePasadena CA (JPL) Aug 15, 2019 Robots from all over the world will compete to find objects in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Systems Competition, held Aug. 15-22 in mining tunnels under Pittsburgh. Among them will be a team led ... more  
Nanoparticles could grant humans permanent night visionWashington (UPI) Aug 27, 2019 Built-in night vision may not be far off. Scientists have developed nanoparticles that allow mice to see near-infrared light. ... more 
Scientists build a synthetic system to improve wound treatment, drug delivery for soldiersResearch Triangle Park NC (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 For the first time, scientists built a synthetic biologic system with compartments like real cells. This Army project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst could lead to materials that provide ... more  
US approves $3.3bn sale of anti-ballistic missiles to JapanWashington (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 Washington approved the $3.3 billion sale of anti-ballistic missiles to Japan Tuesday, following close behind a series of new ballistic missile tests by North Korea that could threaten the US ally. ... more |
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Indonesia picks Borneo island for new capitalJakarta (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 Indonesia will move its capital to the eastern edge of jungle-clad Borneo island, President Joko Widodo said Monday, as the country shifts its political heart away from congested and sinking megalopolis Jakarta. ... more 
Macron and Bolsonaro: political polar oppositesParis (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 Relations between French President Emmanuel Macron and his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro which have been fraught from the start sunk to new lows after Bolsonaro's jibe about Macron's wife, analysts say. ... more  
Hughes partners with startup to extend LTE Coverage using helicopters and UAVsGermantown MD (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 Hughes Network Systems has announced a new joint solutions to extend mobile network connectivity using an integrated combination of VNC's deployable LTE technology with Hughes JUPITER and HM satelli ... more  
Australia moves to protect universities from foreign interferenceSydney (AFP) Aug 28, 2019 Australia moved to counter foreign interference at its universities Wednesday, establishing a task force to help protect sensitive research, cyberdefences and free speech. ... more  
GenDyn contracted for Knifefish UUV production after approval from NavyWashington (UPI) Aug 27, 2019 The U.S. Navy's Knifefish Surface Mine Countermeasure Unmanned Undersea Vehicle program has been approved to enter low-rate initial production, with the Pentagon awarding a contract for the work days later. ... more |
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Uighur intellectual nominated for top European rights awardStrasbourg, France (AFP) Aug 28, 2019 Europe's top rights body, the Council of Europe, has nominated a jailed academic from China's Uighur minority, Ilham Tohti, for one of the continent's top human rights awards. ... more  |
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Israeli aircraft strikes Gaza after Palestinian mortar fireGaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 Israel launched an air strike against Gaza's Hamas rulers on Tuesday after militants in the strip fired a mortar round across the border, the army said. ... more  
Hundreds of displaced Iraqis transferred from campBaghdad (AFP) Aug 28, 2019 Hundreds of displaced Iraqis, mostly women and children, were transferred from a northern camp to their home areas Wednesday despite humanitarian concerns over what awaits them on their return. ... 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 
DARPA making progress on miniaturized atomic clocks for future PNT applicationsWashington DC (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 Many of today's communications, navigation, financial transaction, distributed cloud, and defense applications rely on the precision timing of atomic clocks - or clocks that track time based on the ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 
Washington approved the $3.3 billion sale of anti-ballistic missiles to Japan Tuesday, following close behind a series of new ballistic missile tests by North Korea that could threaten the US ally.
Japan will buy up to 73 of the Raytheon-made SM-3 Block IIA missiles, which are designed to be fired by the ship-board Aegis system to intercept incoming ballistic missiles, the Pentagon said.
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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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 Germantown MD (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 
Hughes Network Systems has announced a new joint solutions to extend mobile network connectivity using an integrated combination of VNC's deployable LTE technology with Hughes JUPITER and HM satellite systems. The new solutions support various global applications for government, militaries, first responders, and commercial Mobile Network Operators (MNOs).
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 
The Data Relay Satellite EDRS-C was successfully launched at 21:30 CEST on 6 August 2019. After receiving the first telemetry data, the German Space Operations Center (GSOC) took over operation of the satellite. Now that the first critical launch phase with several orbital manoeuvres has been completed EDRS-C can enter the test phase. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und ... 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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 Biarritz, France (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 
Like Superman disguised as the mild-mannered Clark Kent, Donald Trump showed his tamer side at the G7 - but the maverick showman expected by the world didn't take long to burst back out.
Before the summit in France's Biarritz, speculation was rife over how Trump might blow up proceedings.
At last year's session in Canada, he withdrew his signature from the closing statement and rowed ov ... 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 28, 2019 
Hundreds of displaced Iraqis, mostly women and children, were transferred from a northern camp to their home areas Wednesday despite humanitarian concerns over what awaits them on their return.
The civilians originally hailed from Hawija but had fled fighting against the Islamic State group years ago to Hammam al-Alil camp, about 150 kilometres (100 miles) north.
Early Wednesday, Iraqi o ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 
Relations between Tehran and Washington have spiralled since US President Donald Trump came to power and promptly quit the international deal on Iran's nuclear programme, reimposing sweeping sanctions on the country.
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- 'Isolate' Iran -
In a landmark address to Middle Eastern leaders in Saudi Arabia on May 21, 2017, just months after taking office, Trump urges nations ... 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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 La Paz (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 
Like his far-right rival President Jair Bolsonaro in neighboring Brazil, Bolivia's leftist leader Evo Morales is facing mounting fury from environmental groups over voracious wildfires in his own country.
While the Amazon blazes in Brazil have attracted worldwide attention, the blazes in Bolivia's forest and grassland have raged largely unchecked over the past month, devastating more than 9, ... more |
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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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 Sydney (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 
An Australian pro-democracy academic held for seven months in China has been formally arrested for spying, Foreign Minister Marise Payne said Tuesday as she demanded Beijing uphold "basic standards" of justice.
Payne said she was "very concerned" that Chinese-born Yang Hengjun - a former official turned author - had been arrested on "suspicion of espionage".
Yang had been detained afte ... more |
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 Colombo (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 
Sri Lanka's new army chief on Monday brushed aside international outrage over his appointment, saying "anyone can make allegations" that he had committed war crimes.
Shavendra Silva has been accused by the United Nations of committing war crimes during the final stages of Sri Lanka's separatist conflict, which ended in 2009.
His appointment last week by President Maithripala Sirisena was ... more |
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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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