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  Bangkok (AFP) Nov 3, 2019 Beijing said Sunday it is "ready to work" with Southeast Asian nations on a code of conduct in the flashpoint South China Sea, where it is accused of bullying fellow claimants and building up military installations. China claims most of the resource-rich waterway, a major global shipping route and long a source of tension among claimants in Southeast Asia. The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been locked in talks for a code of conduct for the sea, where China is accus ... read more |
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Russia, Egypt join in air defense exercise Arrow of FriendshipWashington (UPI) Oct 30, 2019 Russian and Egyptian air forces are involved in a joint training exercise in Egypt, a sign of growing Russian involvement on the African continent. ... more  
US Interior Department grounds Chinese-made dronesWashington (AFP) Nov 1, 2019 The US Department of the Interior has grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones as it conducts a review of the program. ... more  
Huawei moving on 5G while politics plays outSan Francisco (AFP) Nov 2, 2019 Major state telecom operators are rolling out 5G wireless advances in China as the country races to close a technology gap with the United States amid a bruising trade war. ... more  
Iraqi Kurds boycott Turkish goods after Syria assaultSulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) Nov 1, 2019 Shopkeepers in Iraq's Kurdish region have been responding to activists' calls to boycott Turkish goods in protest at Ankara's assault on Kurdish forces in neighbouring Syria. ... more |
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US opens national security probe of Chinese-owned app TikTok: reportWashington (AFP) Nov 1, 2019 The US government has opened a national security investigation into the Chinese-owned video app TikTok, the New York Times reported Friday. ... more 
Watchdog sues FBI over facial recognition secrecyWashington (AFP) Oct 31, 2019 A civil liberties watchdog Thursday sued the FBI and other federal agencies claiming the government is improperly withholding information on how it uses a facial recognition database of millions of Americans. ... more  
Russian air strike kills six civilians in Syria: monitorBeirut (AFP) Nov 2, 2019 An air strike Saturday by key Damascus ally Russia killed six civilians including a child in the embattled opposition bastion of Idlib in northwestern Syria, a war monitor. ... more 
Israeli retaliatory airstrikes kill Palestinian: in Gaza ministryJerusalem (AFP) Nov 2, 2019 A Palestinian was killed by Israeli airstrikes on Saturday, the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said, in an attack launched in response to rocket fire. ... more  
Foreign actors must not 'impose will' on protests: top Iraq clericKarbala, Iraq (AFP) Nov 1, 2019 Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani warned foreign actors on Friday against interfering in anti-government protests that erupted early last month and urged political factions to avoid "infighting". ... more |
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 French warplanes destroy IS tunnels in northern Iraq: minister 
CIA-backed Afghan militias kill with impunity, rights group saysKabul (AFP) Oct 31, 2019 CIA-backed Afghan paramilitary groups operating with impunity are summarily executing civilians during botched nighttime raids and are responsible for the disappearances of suspects, a rights group said Thursday. ... more  |
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Shedding new light on the charging of lithium-ion batteriesLemont IL (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 Exposing cathodes to light decreases charge time by a factor of two in lithium-ion batteries. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have reported a new mec ... more  
A stretchable stopwatch lights up human skinWashington DC (SPX) Oct 31, 2019 Imagine a runner who doesn't need to carry a stopwatch or cell phone to check her time: She could just gaze at the glowing stopwatch display on the back of her hand. Such human-machine interfaces ar ... more  
NTU Singapore researchers create quantum chip 1,000 times smaller than current setupsSingapore (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a quantum communication chip that is 1,000 times smaller than current quantum setups, but offers the same su ... more  
British hypersonic engine passes key testBethesda MD (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 Reaction Engines, a UK-based company formed in 1989 to design and develop the technologies needed for a new class of innovative hypersonic propulsion system, claims a breakthrough in aerospace engin ... more  
Sisi suggests floating Egypt military firms on stock exchangeCairo (AFP) Oct 31, 2019 Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi suggested Thursday listing military-owned companies on the stock exchange, along with other state-run firms and assets. ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Oct 24, 2019 
Moscow has sent a S-400 missile system battalion and a Pantsir anti-aircraft gun and missile system to Belgrade for their first joint drills in Serbia, the defence ministry said.
The systems will be deployed at Batajnica base, outside the capital, as part of the exercises that will take place on October 23-29, a statement said.
It is the first time that the S-400 and Pantsir systems will ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) Oct 31, 2019  North Korea fired two short-range projectiles on Thursday, the South's military said, with nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington at a deadlock.
The weapons were launched from South Pyongan province in an easterly direction over the sea, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
They flew 370 kilometres (230 miles) at a maximum altitude of 90 kilometres, they said, addin ... more |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 31, 2019  An anti-aircraft missile was fired Thursday at an Israeli drone over Lebanon, the Israeli army said, adding that the unmanned aircraft was not hit.
"A short while ago, an anti-aircraft missile was launched over Lebanese territory towards an IDF (Israeli army) UAV. The UAV was not hit," the military said in a statement posted on Twitter. It gave no further details.
Lebanon's Shiite milita ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2019 
DARPA has announced that GatorWings, a team of undergraduate students, Ph.D. candidates, and professors from the University of Florida are the winners of the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) - a three-year competition to unlock the true potential of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum with artificial intelligence (AI).
DARPA hosted the championship event at Mobile World Congress 2019 ( ... more |
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 Wright-Patterson AFB CO (SPX) Oct 28, 2019 
Acoustics researchers in the Air Force Research Laboratory's 711th Human Performance Wing are collecting and delivering acoustics data from hardened aircraft shelters around the world-data that customers can then use to certify that F-35 fast-jet airframes and the personnel working inside are safe.
Hardened aircraft shelters are reinforced hangars that store and protect military fighter ai ... more |
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 Cairo (AFP) Oct 31, 2019 
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi suggested Thursday listing military-owned companies on the stock exchange, along with other state-run firms and assets.
"There must be an opportunity for the armed forces' companies. They must enter the stock market and there should be a chance for Egyptians to buy their shares," Sisi said in televised remarks.
The president was attending the inaug ... more |
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 Kiev (AFP) Oct 30, 2019 
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to "withdraw all their troops".
Tuesday saw a long-awaited pullback between the two sides in a key area of the war-torn east.
The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Put ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 31, 2019  Northwestern University chemists have used visible light and extremely tiny nanoparticles to quickly and simply make molecules that are of the same class as many lead compounds for drug development.
Driven by light, the nanoparticle catalysts perform chemical reactions with very specific chemical products - molecules that don't just have the right chemical formulas but also have specific a ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Nov 1, 2019 
French warplanes bombed "several caches and tunnels" belonging to the Islamic State (IS) group in northeast Iraq, the government said Friday, reiterating France's determination to continue hunting the radicals after the US pullout from neighbouring Syria.
Writing on Twitter, Defence Minister Florence Parly said that Paris was giving "no respite" to IS, which was behind several deadly attacks ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 1, 2019 
The United States on Thursday extended its sanctions on Iran by taking aim at its construction sector, which Washington linked to the country's Revolutionary Guards.
The sanctions, it said, would also target "four strategic materials as being used in connection with Iran's nuclear, military, or ballistic missile programs."
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo imposed the sanctions after the co ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 31, 2019  Hong Kong on Thursday confirmed it had plunged into its first recession since the global financial crisis as months of seething pro-democracy protests and the US-China trade war exact a heavy toll on the financial hub.
The semi-autonomous Chinese city has been upended by nearly five months of huge, often violent, pro-democracy demonstrations with little end in sight as Beijing and city leade ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 01, 2019  Efforts to cull wild dogs in New South Wales, a state on the east coast of Australia, are killing dingoes, according to a new genetic survey.
The survey's findings, published this week in the journal Conservation Genetics, contradict the assumption that there are no more pure dingoes in New South Wales.
For the study, scientists collected and analyzed genetic samples from 783 wil ... more |
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 Xiamen (XNA) Oct 30, 2019 
China plans to launch four new science satellite missions by 2023, and scientists have completed concept research on another five to be launched in the next 10 years.
Successful Chinese science satellites launched since 2015 include the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) and the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT). These were under a sp ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Oct 30, 2019 
Belgium has denied a Chinese academic a visa and banned him from the EU's passport-free travel area for eight years after identifying him as a potential threat to national security, sources close to the probe told AFP Wednesday.
Song Xinning, the head of the Chinese government-backed Confucius Institute at the VUB university in Brussels, came to the attention of Belgium's VSSE intelligence a ... more |
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 Beirut (AFP) Oct 31, 2019  The Islamic State jihadist group confirmed the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a statement Thursday and named his replacement as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi.
"We mourn you... commander of the faithful," said Abu Hamza al-Quraishi - presented as the jihadist group's new spokesman - in an audio statement.
Baghdadi, who led IS since 2014 and was the world's most wanted ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 22, 2019 
Raytheon Co. announced the delivery, to the U.S. Air Force, of the first high-energy laser system to counter drone threats.
The system will be tested in a year-long overseas deployment, the company said on Tuesday.
Raytheon received a $23.8 million contract in August to build two high-energy laser systems, as well as a $16 million contract for a microwave counter-drone system kno ... more |
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