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  Istanbul (AFP) Nov 16, 2019 Turkey will use the S-400 missile defence system it has bought from Russia despite the US threat of sanctions, a senior defence official said Saturday. The purchase of the Russian system and its subsequent delivery of the system in July has been a major source of friction between two NATO allies Turkey and the United States. Last month the US said Turkey would be spared sanctions under a 2017 law if the S-400 system is not turned on. "It is not a correct approach to say 'we will not use for ... read more |
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Raytheon nabs $209.6M contract to upgrade parts on Aegis Weapon SystemWashington (UPI) Nov 15, 2019 Raytheon has received a Navy contract to upgrade or replace national item identification numbered parts within two major subsystems of the Aegis Weapon System. ... more  
Washington silent as US-crafted regime under fire in IraqBaghdad (AFP) Nov 18, 2019 It posted tens of thousands of troops in Iraq, huddled with its leaders and helped craft its laws - but with the country swamped by deadly protests, Washington is staying out of the fray. ... more  
U.S., South Korea postpone joint air exercises for diplomacyWashington (UPI) Nov 17, 2019 South Korea and the United States decided to put off their wintertime combined air exercises to support diplomacy with North Korea, the two sides said Sunday, with U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper urging Pyongyang to reciprocate the goodwill by returning to nuclear talks. ... more 
US urges S. Korea and Japan to 'work through' differencesSeoul (AFP) Nov 15, 2019 US allies South Korea and Japan should settle their differences to maintain a military intelligence sharing pact, Washington's Defense Secretary Mark Esper urged Friday, calling on Seoul to reverse its decision to end it. ... more |
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Thruster for next-generation spacecraft undergoes testing at GlennCleveland OH (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster - Commercial (NEXT-C) fired for the first time recently inside a vacuum chamber at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. The thruster is undergoing performanc ... more 
Pope to visit Hiroshima on anti-nuclear weapon missionVatican City (AFP) Nov 18, 2019 Pope Francis, who years ago hoped to be a missionary in Japan, travels to the sites of the world's only atomic attacks this week seeking a ban on nuclear weapons. ... more  
Amazon says 'bias' in Pentagon awarding $10 bn contract to MicrosoftSan Francisco (AFP) Nov 15, 2019 Amazon on Thursday challenged the awarding of a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract to Microsoft, alleging "unmistakable bias" in the process. ... more  
Japanese man detained in China freedTokyo (AFP) Nov 15, 2019 A Japanese man detained by Beijing reportedly on allegations of spying has been released and returned to the country, government officials in Tokyo said on Friday. ... more 
Australia intel chair blocked from China after criticising BeijingSydney (AFP) Nov 16, 2019 Australia's parliamentary intelligence committee head, who has previously criticised Beijing, said he had been blocked from entering China due to his "frankness about the Chinese Communist Party". ... more |
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UK govt and military covered up war crimes: reportLondon (AFP) Nov 17, 2019 The UK government and military covered up credible evidence of war crimes by British soldiers against civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to an investigation by the BBC and the Sunday Times. ... more  |
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Trump issues pardons in US war crimes casesWashington (AFP) Nov 16, 2019 US President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned a former soldier convicted of murder and a Green Beret charged with killing a suspected Taliban bomb-maker, defying warnings that the move would be an abuse of the powers afforded him under the US Constitution. ... more  
Leaked China documents reveal 'no mercy' in Xinjiang: NYTBeijing (AFP) Nov 17, 2019 A rare and huge leak of Chinese government documents has shed new light on a security crackdown on Muslims in China's Xinjiang region, where President Xi Jinping ordered officials to act with "absolutely no mercy" against separatism and extremism, The New York Times reported. ... more  
Hong Kong protesters defy Xi with pro-democracy ralliesHong Kong (AFP) Nov 15, 2019 Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters defied a warning by China's President Xi Jinping and took to the streets again Friday, as the political turmoil seeped out to London, where a territorial minister was confronted by masked demonstrators. ... more 
From Mosul to Baghdad, a song of Iraqi solidarity and resistanceMosul, Iraq (AFP) Nov 17, 2019 While Baghdad anti-regime protesters have clashed with riot police, their supporters in Mosul are using art to fight for change, with a new take on the resistance anthem "Bella Ciao". ... more 
Russian strikes kill nine civilians in Syria: monitorBeirut (AFP) Nov 17, 2019 Air strikes by Syrian regime ally Russia on Sunday killed nine civilians in the jihadist-run enclave of Idlib in the northwest of the country, a war monitor said. ... more |
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 Brussels (Sputnik) Nov 12, 2019 
The European Union member states adopted on Tuesday a joint defence project, aimed at strengthening their capacity of early missile threat warning and countering it.
The Council of the European Union adopted on Tuesday an updated list of 13 joint defence projects, covering both biological defence, chemical defence, space and cybersecurity. This brings the total number of projects undertake ... 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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 Topeka KS (SPX) Nov 14, 2019 
The Kansas Department of Transportation's (KDOT) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP) has successfully completed the first beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) drone operation using only onboard detect-and-avoid systems.
The flight mark the first time under Part 107 the FAA has authorized an operation to fly BVLOS without a requirement for visual observers or a gr ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 11, 2019  General Dynamics Mission Systems has been awarded a $783 million contract for sustainment of the Navy's next-generation satellite communications system.
The contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, covers ground system sustainment of the Mobile User Objective System for the next decade, through 2029.
MUOS uses a constellation of five satellites in global connectiv ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Nov 14, 2019 
With wooden catapults to launch petrol bombs and bows and arrows pilfered from sports departments, Hong Kong's democracy protesters are combining new tactics with medieval tech as they battle police.
Roads in the financial hub have been blockaded with bamboo lattices this week, while mini Stonehenge-like structures have been built from dug-up pavement as the southern Chinese city lurches dee ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 14, 2019 
The European Union this week announced it has adopted 13 new projects under its defense-cooperation scheme, bringing the total number of collaborative projects under the Permanent Structured Cooperation on Defense and Security, or PESCO, to 47.
Five of the new projects, adopted Tuesday by the EU's European Council, focus on training, including areas such as cyber, diving and tactical as ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 13, 2019 
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday slammed as "unacceptable" recent remarks on NATO by French leader Emmanuel Macron, who claimed the alliance was experiencing "brain death" and deplored Turkey's actions in Syria.
Hosting his counterpart in the Oval Office, US President Donald Trump said Erdogan was "very disappointed in the statement made by France" regarding NATO.
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 Singapore (SPX) Nov 06, 2019 
Researchers from SMART, MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, have made a groundbreaking discovery that allows scientists to 'look' at the surface density of dispersed nanoparticles. This revolutionary technique enables researchers to 'characterise' or understand the properties of nanoparticles without disturbing the nanoparticle, and also at a far lower cost and far quicker too.
The new ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Nov 17, 2019  Striking Iraqis sealed off key bridges and avenues in Baghdad and across the south Sunday, boosting a weeks-long street movement that is demanding a government overhaul.
Sit-ins have become the go-to tactic for rallies that erupted in early October in fury over corruption, a lack of jobs and an out-of-touch political class.
They have resisted efforts by security forces to snuff the gathe ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 
North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. It subsequently developed nuclear weapons, with five underground nuclear tests culminating in a suspected thermonuclear explosion (a hydrogen bomb) on 3 September 2017. Now a team of scientists, led by Dr K. M. Sreejith of the Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), have used s ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 14, 2019 
China on Thursday said eliminating tariffs was a "condition" for reaching a trade agreement with the United States, a demand US President Donald Trump said earlier this month that he had rejected.
The Commerce Ministry's remarks showed a sizeable distance still separates the Washington and Beijing dispute Trump's announcement last month that they had reached a "phase one" deal.
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 New Haven CT (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 
The Neo-Assyrian Empire, centered in northern Iraq and extending from Iran to Egypt - the largest empire of its time - collapsed after more than two centuries of dominance at the fall of its capital, Nineveh, in 612 B.C.E.
Despite a plethora of cuneiform textual documentation and archaeological excavations and field surveys, archaeologists and historians have been unable to explain the abr ... more |
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 Huailai, China (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 
On November 14, 2019, China National Space Administration invited some foreign embassies and international organizations to witness hovering and obstacle avoidance test for Mars Lander of China's first Mars exploration mission, and visit relevant test facilities in Huailai, Hebei Province. Zhang Kejian, administrator of China National Space Administration, attended the event and delivered a welc ... more |
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 Frankfurt Am Main, Germany (AFP) Nov 17, 2019 
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong urged Germany Sunday to stop military training assistance to China after its troops appeared in the protest-hit Asian financial hub, a German daily reported.
Speaking to the top-selling Bild newspaper, Wong said: "It makes me furious that the German Bundeswehr is apparently helping to train Chinese soldiers. Given the riots in Hong Kong, the defence m ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 14, 2019 
The United States said Thursday it was "irresponsible" for Western nations to ask Iraq to prosecute foreign jihadists, in a veiled criticism of France's refusal to repatriate Islamic State members.
"The United States thinks that it's inappropriate to ask Iraq in particular to shoulder the additional burden of foreign fighters, particularly from Europe," Nathan Sales, the State Department cou ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 07, 2019 
Members of the U.S. Air Force used the Advanced Test High Energy Asset, referred to as ATHENA, to shoot down a variety of drones in a Lockheed Martin demonstration of the technology.
In the latest test of the ground-portable laser weapon system, Airmen engaged and shot down multiple fixed wing and rotary drones at a government test range in Fort Sill, Okla., Lockheed said on Thursday. / ... more |
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