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  Seoul (AFP) Sept 16, 2019 North Korea on Monday demanded the United States provide security guarantees as a precondition to resuming deadlocked nuclear talks, dampening hopes for progress at a working-level dialogue expected in the coming weeks. Negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington have been gridlocked since a second summit between the North's leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump in February ended without a deal. The pair agreed to restart working-level dialogue during an impromptu meeting at the Dem ... read more |
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Italy joins Britain, Sweden to develop Tempest fighter planeWashington (UPI) Sep 13, 2019 BAE Systems and Italian defense contractor Leonardo agreed to work cooperatively on the next-generation Tempest fighter plane. ... more  
Russia deploys S-400 missiles in Arctic; Offers Saudi ABM systemsAnkara (AFP) Sept 16, 2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to sell Saudi Arabia its missile defence systems on Monday in the wake of the weekend attack on its oil facilities. ... more 
Developer hints at start date for mass production of Russia's S-500 missile systemMoscow (Sputnik) Sep 17, 2019 Limited production of the sophisticated new air defence system, most of whose characteristics remain under wraps, was said to have begun earlier this year, but the system has not yet concluded milit ... more 
Trump backed off on Iran last time -- but will he again?Washington (AFP) Sept 16, 2019 Donald Trump famously canceled a missile strike on Iran in June, but Tehran will not be resting easy following the unpredictable president's warning that the United States is again "locked and loaded." ... more |
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KPMG nabs $24.5M in contracts for Marine Corps audit prepWashington (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. ... more  
Police on alert as Taiwan's flag lowered in the SolomonsHoniara (AFP) Sept 17, 2019 Police maintained a strong presence on the streets of the Solomon Islands' capital Honiara Tuesday but reported no unrest following the troubled Pacific nation's decision to switch diplomatic allegiance to China from Taiwan. ... more 
Northrup Grumman wins $42.8M contract to fix B-2 wing panelsWashington (UPI) Sep 16, 2019 Northrup Grumman Systems Corp. was awarded a minimum $42.8 million to build trailing edge components of the B-2 stealth bomber, the Defense Department announced. ... more  
Green Beret killed in AfghanistanWashington (UPI) Sep 16, 2019 A U.S. Special Forces member was killed in Afghanistan, NATO Resolute Support Afghanistan announced on Monday. ... more 
Screams in the night in Indian KashmirHirpora , India (AFP) Sept 16, 2019 The soldiers came after midnight, Abid Khan says, his hands trembling, one of around two dozen young men in just one part of Kashmir who say they have been tortured by the Indian army. ... more |
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 IS head urges followers to 'rescue' jailed jihadists and families  
New spats shake Iraq's teetering stability -- and its PMBaghdad (AFP) Sept 17, 2019 As fissures within a powerful paramilitary force go public for the first time and a revolving door of top politicians consults Tehran, Iraq's fragile political balance is crumbling, analysts say, with worrying consequences for its premier. ... more  |
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EU creates directorate for European defense industryWashington (UPI) Sep 16, 2019 A new agency established within the European Commission to deal with Europe's fragmented defense industry will have France's former defense minister in charge. ... more  
US Air Force selects Hughes to strengthen SATCOM resilienceGermantown MD (SPX) Sep 17, 2019 Hughes Network Systems has been awarded a $2.2M contract funded by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), through the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC), to produce an Enterprise ... more  
Facebook to stop news headline changes from advertisersSan Francisco (AFP) Sept 16, 2019 Facebook said Monday it is working to stop advertisers from changing headlines in links to news stories after concerns raised by a British political party's altering of one such link. ... more  
Suspect funds used to send military gear to Sudan neighbours: Bashir trial witnessKhartoum (AFP) Sept 14, 2019 A witness in the trial of Omar al-Bashir said Saturday that his army-owned firm had supplied military equipment to neighbouring countries using funds allegedly received illegally by the ousted Sudanese leader. ... more 
UN eases arms embargo on Central African RepublicUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 13, 2019 The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously approved the easing of an arms embargo on the Central African Republic for the first time since 2013 when it was engulfed in violence. ... more |
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 Ankara (AFP) Sept 16, 2019  Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to sell Saudi Arabia its missile defence systems on Monday in the wake of the weekend attack on its oil facilities.
"We are ready to help Saudi Arabia so that she can protect her territory.
"She can do so in the same way that Iran has already done in buying the S-300 Russian missile system and the same way that Turkey has already done in buying ... 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.
"Javelin offers true fire-and-fo ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Sep 16, 2019 
For more than five decades, Intelsat General has been providing the satellite capacity and the services needed by the U.S. and allied governments to support troops operating in the world's hot spots.
Satellite technology on the ground and in space has improved greatly in that time, so that yesterday's large, bulky antennas have been replaced by fully integrated terminals the size of a lapt ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2019 
Detecting landmines can be a challenging and slow process. Detecting them from a moving vehicle would make the process more speedy, but at the expense of accuracy.
At the Optical Society's (OSA) Laser Congress, held 29 September - 3 October 2019 in Vienna, Austria, researchers from the University of Mississippi, U.S.A., will report a new laser-based sensor that effectively detects buried o ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Sept 12, 2019 
EU plans to increase defence spending to 22.5 billion euros ($25 billion) over the next decade are insufficient for its ambitions in the sector, the European Court of Auditors said Thursday.
If the EU tried to defend itself without help from NATO ally US, "it is estimated that an investment of several hundred billion euros would be needed to overcome the current capabilities gap," it underli ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 13, 2019 
The US Navy said that one of its destroyers had sailed close to the Chinese-controlled Paracel Islands in the South China Sea on Friday, asserting international freedom of navigation rights in the contested waters.
The USS Wayne E. Meyer guided-missile destroyer passed through the area of the Paracels east of Vietnam and South of China's Hainan Island without requesting permission from Beiji ... 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) Sept 17, 2019 
As fissures within a powerful paramilitary force go public for the first time and a revolving door of top politicians consults Tehran, Iraq's fragile political balance is crumbling, analysts say, with worrying consequences for its premier.
It has been a shaky 11 months for Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi's government since it was painstakingly stitched together in the prolonged wake of May 2 ... more |
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 Vienna (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.
Tehran's ambassador to the International Atomic Agency (IAEA), Kazem Gharib Abadi, told a meeting of the agency's board of governors that recent statements by US officials and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 16, 2019 
China's economy showed more signs of strain Monday as the country published weak data for industrial output, investment and retail sales, amid a lingering trade war with the United States.
Industrial output grew by 4.4 percent year-on-year throughout August, falling to its lowest level in 17 years and down from 4.8 percent in July.
The figure was well below analyst expectations, with a B ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Sep 16, 2019 
Our nation has been beset by numerous natural disasters over the past two years. I'm a veteran of both the military and commercial satellite industry. I wanted a chance to serve again by supporting disaster recovery efforts, and I found a way to do so through the Team Rubicon organization.
Team Rubicon was born in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake in 2010. Two former marines, Jake Wood ... 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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 Beirut (AFP) Sept 16, 2019 
The Islamic State group's chief has urged followers to free detained jihadists and family members held at camps in Iraq and Syria, vowing "revenge" in an audio recording released Monday.
"The prisons, the prisons, soldiers of the caliphate!" said Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive head of the group which once controlled swathes of Iraq and Syria, in a recording purportedly by the IS chief di ... 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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