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  Tehran (AFP) Jan 3, 2020 Iran warned of "severe revenge" and said arch-enemy the United States bore responsiblity for the consequences after killing one of its top commanders, Qasem Soleimani, in a strike Friday outside Baghdad airport. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed the commander of its Quds Force foreign operations arm had been killed by US forces in Baghdad, with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denouncing it as a "dangerous escalation". "The Revolutionary Guards announces that the glorious comm ... read more |
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Berlin urges prudence and de-escalation; Russia, France, China urge cautionBerlin (AFP) Jan 3, 2020 Germany on Friday urged restraint and de-escalation after the US killed top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, sending tensions soaring in the region. ... more 
Top Iran commander Qasem Soleimani killed in US strike on BaghdadBaghdad (AFP) Jan 3, 2020 Top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed Friday in a US strike on Baghdad's international airport, prompting Tehran to vow "revenge", dramatically upping the stakes in bitter tensions between Tehran and Washington. ... more 
Republicans praise Soleimani strike as Congress says wasn't warnedWashington (AFP) Jan 3, 2020 Republican lawmakers quickly spoke out Thursday in strong support of President Donald Trump's attack that killed Iran Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani, as Congress complained it received no advance notice of the strike. ... more 
Yemen rebels urge 'swift reprisals' for Soleimani killingSanaa (AFP) Jan 3, 2020 Yemen's pro-Tehran rebels, who control the capital Sanaa, called Friday for "swift reprisals" for the killing of senior Iranian commander Major General Qasem Soleimani in a US strike in Baghdad. ... more |
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Pentagon confirms Trump ordered killing of Iran Guards commanderWashington (AFP) Jan 3, 2020 US President Donald Trump ordered the killing of Iran Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani, who died in Baghdad "in a decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad," the Pentagon said. ... more 
US expects more attacks; As Elite Iraqi troops secure US embassyWashington (AFP) Jan 2, 2020 The Pentagon warned Thursday that the Iran-backed Kataeb Hezbollah group that stormed the US embassy in Baghdad would carry out more attacks on US facilities - and would regret it. ... more 
General Qasem Soleimani: Iran's regional pointmanTehran (AFP) Jan 3, 2020 Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed Friday in a US strike, was one of the most popular figures in Iran and seen as a deadly adversary by America and its allies. ... more 
Iraqi force says 'US strike' killed top Iran, Iraq commanders at Baghdad airportBaghdad (AFP) Jan 3, 2020 Top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US strike on Baghdad's international airport on Friday, Iraq's powerful Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force has said, in a dramatic escalation of tensions between Washington and Tehran. ... more  
Taiwan passes law against China influence ahead of voteTaipei (AFP) Dec 31, 2019 Taiwan passed a controversial bill Tuesday aimed at countering China's influence on the self-ruled island, less than two weeks before it goes to the polls to elect a new president. ... more |
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Lockheed Martin awarded $7B contract for F-22 sustainment workWashington DC (UPI) Dec 23, 2019 Lockheed Martin received a contract valued at $7 billion for sustainment of the F-22 fighter plane of the U.S. Air Force, the Defense Department announced. ... more  |
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Elite Iraqi troops secure US embassy after attackBaghdad (AFP) Jan 2, 2020 Elite Iraqi troops deployed to secure the US embassy Thursday, a day after a pro-Iran mob laid siege to it in dramatic scenes that overshadowed months of anti-government grassroots protests. ... more 
With pro-Iran groups at helm, Iraq 'risks becoming pariah'Baghdad (AFP) Jan 2, 2020 The US embassy siege by pro-Iran protesters in Baghdad lasted just over a day, but analysts warn it could have lasting implications for Iraq's complex security sector and diplomatic ties. ... more  
Russia launches Rokot carrier rocket, Its Last Space Launch of 2019Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 27, 2019 The rocket is carrying three Gonets-M communication satellites and a Blitz-M technology satellite to orbit and marks Russia's 25th space launch this year. The Russian military reported later that th ... more 
Commercial suborbital carrier rocket launched in ChinaJiuquan, China (XNA) Dec 27, 2019 A commercial suborbital carrier rocket developed by a private Chinese company was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 4:50 p.m. Wednesday (Beijing Time). Th ... more  
The Internet of Things by satellite will become increasingly accessibleBarcelona, Spain (SPX) Dec 27, 2019 Since some years ago, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been a constantly evolving reality. The possibility that machines (nodes) can communicate with each other has paved the way for applications th ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Dec 18, 2019 
Russia on Wednesday lifted the veil on its tightly guarded space-based missile warning system, ahead of a vote in the US Congress on President Donald Trump's plan to create a new space force.
The new system, named Kupol or dome, is designed to detect launches of ballistic missiles and track them to their landing site, according to documents presented by the general staff to military attaches ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 29, 2019 
The Avangard is one of half-a-dozen new defence systems unveiled by Moscow in early 2018 as a means of restoring the global strategic nuclear balance amid NATO efforts to press up against Russia's borders and create elements of a ground-based missile shield in Romania and Poland.
The first Strategic Missile Forces regiment to be armed with the nuclear-capable Avangard hypersonic glide vehi ... more |
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 Netanya, Israel (SPX) Dec 27, 2019 
Orbit Communication Systems Ltd., a leading global provider of airborne communications and satellite-tracking maritime and ground-station solutions, and Inmarsat Government, a leading provider of global mobile satellite communications and managed network services to the US government, has announced an initial order from Inmarsat Government for Orbit's Multi-Purpose Terminal (MPT) 46WGX.
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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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 Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 
The Air Force kicked off a pioneering Weapons Digital Enterprise Workshop Dec. 9 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. to solidify ties to the Air Force and Department of Defense Digital Enterprises to develop advanced capabilities and enable rapid design of weapons and assessment of their impact on military operations.
The Team Eglin Modeling and Simulation Consortium is comprised of experts from ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 26, 2019 
Beijing on Thursday said it "firmly opposes" trade restrictions included in a new US defence act, having already admonished the bill for interfering in China's internal affairs.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) - signed into law last week - bars the use of federal funds to buy railcars and buses from China, and slows the lifting of sanctions on tech giant Huawei.
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 30, 2019 
Japan will begin construction in 2022 of an airfield, government sources said on Monday, on an uninhabited East China Sea island it recently bought.
The island is central to the planned relocation of a "field carrier landing practice" site needed by aircraft aboard U.S. aircraft carriers.
A three-year construction schedule is planned, and the landing site could become operational ... more |
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 Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 
Polymers are used to develop various materials, such as plastics, nylons, and rubbers. In their most basic form, they are made up of many of identical molecules joined together over and over, like a chain. If you engineer molecules to join together in specific ways, you can control the characteristics of the resulting polymer.
Using this method, Sheng Shen, an associate professor of mechan ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Jan 2, 2020 
The US embassy siege by pro-Iran protesters in Baghdad lasted just over a day, but analysts warn it could have lasting implications for Iraq's complex security sector and diplomatic ties.
Baghdad had been struggling to keep up its precarious balancing act between its allies Tehran and Washington as tensions spiralled following the US withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear pact with Iran.
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 3, 2020  The world reacted with alarm on Friday after top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US strike in Iraq, with leaders appealing for restraint.
The attack was praised by US President Donald Trump's Republicans but elsewhere there were sharp warnings it could inflame regional tensions.
Following are some of the reactions from around the world:
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) Dec 30, 2019 
Membership of the World Trade Organization has benefitted the US and China more than any other nations, a study published Monday found, as the two powers seek to defuse a months-long trade conflict.
The Bertelsmann Foundation research showed WTO membership has boosted the US's gross domestic product by $87 billion in the 25 years since the country joined.
China, which became a member onl ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Dec 24, 2019 
A Japanese government agency has proposed releasing radioactive water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the environment, as storage space runs out.
The plant suffered a meltdown about nine years ago after it was hit by an earthquake-triggered tsunami. About a million tonnes of contaminated water has built up since then and the tanks that hold it are almost full.
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 27, 2019 
China Friday launched one of the world's most powerful rockets in a major step forward for its planned mission to Mars in 2020.
The heavy lift Long March 5 rocket carrying a Shijian 20 test satellite payload blasted off from the Wenchang launch site on the southern island of Hainan at 8:45 pm (1245 GMT), a livestream from state broadcaster CCTV showed.
"After more than 2,000 seconds, the ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 2, 2020 
Over a dozen Chinese lawyers and activists were detained or went missing in the final days of 2019 in a crackdown on participants of a private democracy gathering, rights groups said Thursday.
The Chinese government has severely reduced the space for civil liberties since President Xi Jinping took power in 2012, rounding up rights lawyers, labour activists and even Marxists students in vario ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Dec 23, 2019  Just days after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a raid by US special forces in October, the Islamic State group announced the name of the man who has replaced him as leader.
But the true identity of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi remains shrouded in mystery, and with it the organisation's strategy going forward.
"We don't know much about him except that he is the leading judge of ... 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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