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  Moscow (AFP) Dec 3, 2019 President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said Russia is open to cooperation with NATO as a two-day summit of the Western alliance was to open outside London. "We have repeatedly expressed readiness to jointly resist real threats," Putin said, Russian news agencies reported. He named these common threats as "international terrorism, local armed conflicts (and) the danger of uncontrolled proliferation of weapons of mass destruction." The strongman was speaking in the Black Sea resort of Sochi as a ... read more |
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Indian warship drives away Chinese vessel: reportsNew Delhi (AFP) Dec 3, 2019 India's Navy chief said Tuesday that an unauthorised Chinese vessel had entered its waters in the strategic Indian Ocean Region in September, with media reports suggesting New Delhi deployed a warship to repel the vessel. ... more 
NATO recognises China 'challenges' for first timeLondon (AFP) Dec 3, 2019 NATO is to formally recognise the "challenges" posed by China for the first time, but the alliance chief insisted Tuesday he did not want to make an adversary of Beijing. ... more 
Baltics will be protected says NATO chief; As Erdogan threatens vetoWarsaw (AFP) Dec 3, 2019 NATO does not consider Russia an enemy but would respond to an attack on Poland and the Baltic states, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview published on Tuesday. ... more  
Land acquisition underway for 2nd rocket port in TuticorinChennai, India (IANS) Dec 03, 2019 The land acquisition in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district for India's second rocket port is under progress, a top district official said on Friday. "The process for acquiring land for the rocket ... more |
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'Children are innocent': Albanians beg for return of IS youngstersTirana (AFP) Dec 3, 2019 After media interest helped mobilise the evacuation of an Albanian boy from northern Syria last month, families of other children of Islamic State fighters are pleading with Tirana to redouble its efforts and bring the rest home. ... more  
US House passes Uighur bill urging sanctions on Chinese officialsWashington (AFP) Dec 4, 2019 The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to toughen Washington's position against China regarding its treatment of minority Uighurs, calling on President Donald Trump to apply sanctions against senior Chinese officials. ... more  
Iraqi Christians cancel Christmas celebrations in solidarity with protestsKirkuk, Iraq (AFP) Dec 3, 2019 The head of Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church announced Tuesday the community would not hold public celebrations of Christmas out of respect for those killed and wounded in recent anti-government protests. ... more 
Iraq parties, allies debate new PM as violence hits shrine citiesBaghdad (AFP) Dec 3, 2019 Iraqi politicians and their regional allies gathered in Baghdad on Tuesday to discuss how to resolve two months of protests that brought down the government, as violence hit southern cities. ... more 
On treadmill, Zelensky says Ukraine stuck without Putin summitKiev (AFP) Dec 2, 2019 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday took to a treadmill to stress the country will remain in stalemate until he talks to Russian leader Vladimir Putin at a key summit next week. ... more |
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 Polish firm's drones, from lifesaver to invisible model, take to the skies  
Raytheon wins $74.7M Navy contract for landing platform dock workWashington DC (UPI) Dec 03, 2019 Raytheon has been awarded a $74.7 million contract for services on the U.S. Navy's amphibious transport dock ships. ... more  |
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Japan to buy $146 million island for US military drillsTokyo (AFP) Dec 2, 2019 Japan said Monday it had agreed to buy an uninhabited island off its southwest coast for $146 million, eyeing it for US military drills. ... more  
T-shirt generates electricity from temperature difference between body and surroundingsMalaga, Spain (SPX) Nov 25, 2019 Researchers of the Faculty of Science of the University of Malaga (UMA) have designed a low-cost T-shirt that generates electricity from the temperature difference between the human body and the sur ... more  
Bell Boeing awarded $218.7M for V-22 Osprey supportWashington (UPI) Dec 2, 2019 The Bell Boeing Joint Project Office has received a new one-year contract for logistics and support on the V-22 Osprey platform. ... more 
Trump in London for NATO summit amid election raceLondon (AFP) Dec 2, 2019 US President Donald Trump landed in Britain on Monday ahead of the NATO summit, arriving in London just 10 days before a crucial general election. ... more 
Squabbles overshadow NATO 70th anniversary summitWatford, United Kingdom (AFP) Dec 3, 2019 NATO leaders gather Tuesday for a summit to mark the alliance's 70th anniversary but with leaders feuding and name-calling over money and strategy, the mood is far from festive. ... more |
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 Ankara (AFP) Nov 27, 2019 
Turkey on Wednesday rejected criticism from the United States over its testing of a newly-acquired Russian missile defence system.
"You don't buy a product to keep it in a box," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told a press conference.
Turkey's acquisition of the S-400 missile defence system from Russia this summer was met with consternation by its NATO allies and threats of sanctions ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 03, 2019 
At the moment, the country is using several types of early-warning radars, providing long-distance monitoring of airspace against ballistic missile attacks. The military reportedly plans to replace older systems with Voronezh by 2020.
Russian will create an all-round radar field to cover its borders, the Ministry of Defence said on Monday. According to the statement, it will allow for the ... more |
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 Mikolow, Pologne (AFP) Nov 28, 2019 
Silently the eight propellers of the Hermes V8MT drone begin to spin and the large yellow aircraft rises up, locates its direction and moments later disappears into the sky in southern Poland.
Today the drone is making a successful 8.5-kilometre (5.3-mile) test flight near the headquarters of the Polish firm Spartaqs in the town of Mikolow; soon it will be making journeys between a blood ba ... more |
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 Fairfax VA (SPX) Nov 28, 2019 
General Dynamics Mission Systems has been awarded a $731.8 million cost-plus-award-fee and firm-fixed-price indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity sole-source contract for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) ground system sustainment. MUOS is a next-generation satellite communications system that provides secure voice and data communications for U.S. forces worldwide.
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 (UPI) Nov 28, 2019 
From Ephesian war dogs to Conan, the dog honored this week for her role in the capture of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, dogs have been members of the battlefield since ancient times.
But the effects of combat on dogs' longterm health - including their hearing - weren't closely examined until recently. And this week, the Army announced it has developed the Canine Auditory ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 03, 2019 
As leaders of NATO countries prepare to convene in London, Canada remains below the benchmark of two percent of GDP, NATO data indicate.
Each NATO member nation agreed in 2014 to spend two percent of its gross domestic product on defense, but statistics released Friday indicate that Canada will spend 1.31 percent of its GDP on defense in 2019, a figure similar to that of 2018.
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 Moscow (AFP) Dec 3, 2019 
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said Russia is open to cooperation with NATO as a two-day summit of the Western alliance was to open outside London.
"We have repeatedly expressed readiness to jointly resist real threats," Putin said, Russian news agencies reported.
He named these common threats as "international terrorism, local armed conflicts (and) the danger of uncontrolled prolif ... more |
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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.
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 Kirkuk, Iraq (AFP) Dec 3, 2019 
The head of Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church announced Tuesday the community would not hold public celebrations of Christmas out of respect for those killed and wounded in recent anti-government protests.
The mass rallies rocking Iraq's capital and south have been met with violence by security forces and armed groups, leaving nearly 430 dead and 20,000 wounded.
The protest have been conce ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) Nov 30, 2019 
North Korea on Saturday warned Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he could soon see a "real ballistic missile" while excoriating him as the "most stupid man ever known in history".
The colourful condemnation comes two days after the isolated state tested what it called a "super-large multiple launch rocket system", with South Korea reporting that two projectiles came down in the Sea of ... more |
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 London (AFP) Dec 3, 2019 
US President Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron exchanged fire over the future of NATO on Tuesday, as the French leader attacked Turkey and demanded the alliance rethink its strategy.
The three-way battle overshadowed the start of the alliance's 70th anniversary summit in London, threatening to derail efforts to show unity in the face of Russia and China.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 03, 2019 
NASA's Search and Rescue (SAR) office, technology development lead for the international Cospas-Sarsat program, has developed second-generation emergency beacons that offer users improved accuracy and quicker response times. Artemis astronauts returning from the Moon will be the first users of these beacons, which will be commercially available to the general public in the coming years.
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 Wuhan, China (XNA) Nov 22, 2019 
A Chinese company on Wednesday launched a satellite service platform to make satellite resources more accessible for users.
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), the platform's designer, announced the news at the 5th China (International) Commercial Aerospace Forum in Wuhan.
A common satellite operating business focuses on satellites rather than services, which ma ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 2, 2019  China suspended US warship visits and imposed sanctions on American NGOs on Monday in retaliation for the passage of a bill backing pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
The financial hub has been rocked by nearly six months of increasingly violent unrest demanding greater autonomy, which Beijing has frequently blamed on foreign influence.
Last week US President Donald Trump signed the ... more |
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 Tirana (AFP) Dec 3, 2019 
After media interest helped mobilise the evacuation of an Albanian boy from northern Syria last month, families of other children of Islamic State fighters are pleading with Tirana to redouble its efforts and bring the rest home.
Alvin Berisha, an 11-year-old Albanian boy from Italy, was rescued from a Kurdish-run prison camp in Syria in November after a popular Italian TV show whipped up su ... 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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