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  Washington (UPI) Sep 11, 2019 A report released on Wednesday by Taiwan's defense ministry calls for closer alliances with the United States, Japan and other countries in a rebuke to China's military threat. The annual National Defense Report of the Ministry of Defense outlines strategies for countering China, and Taiwan's continued role as a "defender of peace" in the region. It encourages the Indo-Pacific Strategy of defense - which involves the United States, Australia, Japan, Singapore South Korea and the Philippines -- ... read more |
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Rouhani: US talks 'meaningless' unless sanctions liftedTehran (AFP) Sept 11, 2019 Iran's President Hassan Rouhani told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in a phone call on Wednesday that talks with the United States would be "meaningless" unless it lifts sanctions. ... more 
US 'warmongering' a failure, Iran says, as Bolton oustedTehran (AFP) Sept 11, 2019 President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that the United States' "warmongering" was a failure, as Iran welcomed the sacking of hawkish US national security adviser John Bolton. ... more 
Iran rejects 'pressure' over working with nuclear watchdogVienna (AFP) Sept 11, 2019 Iran rejected Wednesday "undue pressure" from the US and Israel over its nuclear programme and warned it could be "counterproductive" to cooperation with the UN's nuclear watchdog. ... more  
Aussie PM defends Chinese-Australian ally over communist party tiesSydney (AFP) Sept 12, 2019 Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday staunchly defended a Hong Kong-born politician who is under mounting pressure over her links to the Chinese Communist Party. ... more |
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Air raids kill first civilian in Syria's Idlib since truceAl-Daher, Syria (AFP) Sept 11, 2019 Russian air strikes on northwest Syria killed an elderly man overnight, the first such casualty since Moscow declared a ceasefire in the jihadist-run region on August 31, a war monitor said. ... more 
Israel strikes Hamas after new Gaza rocket fire: armyJerusalem (AFP) Sept 12, 2019 Israeli warplanes hit Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire, a military statement said early Thursday. ... more  
Iraqi cleric Sadr joins supreme leader at Iran ceremonyTehran (AFP) Sept 11, 2019 Powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr joined Iran's supreme leader during a rare visit to Tehran to mark the Shiite holy day of Ashura, state media reported Wednesday. ... more 
Trump signals could meet with Iran, as security hawk Bolton exitsWashington (AFP) Sept 10, 2019 Two of Donald Trump's top lieutenants said Tuesday he is ready to meet his Iranian counterpart without preconditions after the US president sacked his hawkish national security advisor, while insisting there will be no easing of pressure on Tehran. ... more 
NKorea again tests 'super-large' rocket launcher: KCNASeoul (AFP) Sept 10, 2019 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supervised a fresh test of a "super-large multiple rocket launcher" system, state media said Wednesday - the latest in a series of provocations by Pyongyang. ... more |
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U.S. Navy seeks proposals for Large Unmanned Surface VesselsWashington(UPI) Sep 9, 2019 The U.S. Navy's request for proposals of prototype designs for Large Unmanned Surface Vessels calls for externally-controlled navigation and lengths of about 180 feet. ... more  |
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Canada pledges to boost military in ArcticOttawa (AFP) Sept 10, 2019 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government on Tuesday unveiled a 10-year strategic plan for Canada's resource-rich Arctic region that included strengthening its military presence and responding to increasing international competition. ... more  
Lockheed, Raytheon launch Javelin missiles from unmanned vehicleWashington (UPI) Sep 10, 2019 A team of defense contractors has remotely launched Javelin missiles from an unmanned vehicle. ... more  
Optical communications, laser terminal goes global in Xenesis Hartwell dealChicago IL (SPX) Sep 05, 2019 Xenesis, Inc., a leading innovator in communications technology for the space industry, announced its $212.5 million, 4 year agreement with Hartwell Capitol Consulting, LLC. (HHC), for HHC's global ... more  
Russian Space Agency to Test Modernized Fregat Upper Stage During Launch of Meteor Satellite in 2020Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 09, 2019 Russian state space corporation Roscosmos will test the modernized Fregat upper stage in 2020 during the blastoff of the Meteor-M meteorological satellite No. 2-3 from the Vostochny space centre, ac ... more  
Number of China's in-orbit BeiDou satellites reaches 39Shanghai (XNA) Sep 09, 2019 China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), a global geolocation network, currently has 39 in-orbit satellites and is expected to be completed in 2020, authorities said Wednesday. At pre ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 4, 2019 
Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems received a $50.3 million U.S. Navy contract modification for upgrades to the Aegis missile defense system, the Defense Department announced.
The contract, announced Tuesday by the Pentagon, calls for ship integration and test of the Aegis Weapon System for AWS Baselines through the system's latest upgrade, known as Advanced Capability Build 16. ... more |
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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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 Washington (UPI) Sep 10, 2019 
A team of defense contractors has remotely launched Javelin missiles from an unmanned vehicle.
The Javelin Joint Venture team, a partnership of Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin, fired the Javelin missiles from a Kongsberg remote launcher mounted on a Titan unmanned ground vehicle in a test fire at the U.S. Army Redstone Test Center in Alabama.
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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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 Sterling VA (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 
T-Worx Holdings, LLC, a product innovation company, announced it will support the contractors chosen and announced by the Army today to develop weapons for the Next Generation Squad Weapons (NGSW) program.
T-Worx is currently the only approved vendor for the U.S. Army's Picatinny Smart Rail, synonymous with the T-Worx Intelligent Rail platform (I-Rail). The platform is included as a thresh ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 11, 2019  Three U.S. Navy contracts totaling $24.5 million were awarded to KPMG LLP for U.S. Marine Corps audit support services, the Pentagon announced.
Each of the contracts, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, calls for financial improvement and audit readiness support services to the Deputy Commandant of the Marine Corps, with work expected to be completed by September 2020.
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 Berlin (AFP) Sept 11, 2019 
Beijing summoned the German ambassador after a meeting between Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong and Germany's foreign minister, China's envoy said Wednesday, as a row between the trading giants escalated over the widening pro-democracy protests in the Asian financial hub.
Wong, 22, had arrived late Monday in the German capital, where he met German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas at an event hosted ... 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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 Washington (AFP) Sept 10, 2019 
Three former Blackwater security guards convicted in a 2007 shooting spree in Baghdad that killed more than a dozen unarmed civilians and wounded many others, have had their prison sentences reduced by half or more, authorities said Tuesday.
The three Americans - Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard - were sentenced to 15, 14 and 12.5 years respectively in Washington on Thursday, acc ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 6, 2019  The U.S. Navy announced the test launch of unarmed Trident II missiles from the USS Nebraska on Friday.
Two launches occurred on Wednesday, and two on Friday, off the coast of Southern California. The tests from the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine were part of a Commander Evaluation Test to validate performance expectations of the Trident II strategic weapon system.
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 London (AFP) Sept 11, 2019 
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange has bid almost Pounds 32 billion for its London rival in a shock move Wednesday to bring together two of the world's largest financial hubs in Asia and Europe.
The blockbuster proposal including debt, worth $40 billion or 36 billion euros, is dependent on the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) scrapping a proposed $27-billion takeover of US financial data provider Refi ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 10, 2019 
The US Defense Department said Tuesday that it would keep up to 5,500 troops deployed at the Mexican border for the coming year to help combat illegal immigration.
A week after announcing it would divert $3.6 billion in funds for the construction of an anti-migrant wall on the frontier, the Pentagon said it had also approved a request from the Department of Homeland Security to maintain a tr ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019 
Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday.
The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit.
Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short prep ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Sept 12, 2019 
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday staunchly defended a Hong Kong-born politician who is under mounting pressure over her links to the Chinese Communist Party.
Gladys Liu, the first Chinese-Australian woman elected to the country's parliament, has been accused of being a member of organisations linked to China's ruling party.
Public broadcaster ABC revealed that Liu was ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 29, 2019 
Researchers at the University of Surrey in England have developed a way to scan for and identify a wide range of bomb-making materials in just 30 seconds.
The chemical fingerprinting technology requires the swabbing of materials, which can then be tested. The method can identify trace amounts of a variety of chemicals used in explosives, including nitrotoluenes, trinitrotriazine, hexame ... 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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