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  Sydney (AFP) Dec 13, 2021 Australia's bid to develop a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines will cost more than US$80 billion and take decades in the "most complex" project the country has ever embarked on, a study released Monday warned. The report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute - an influential Canberra-based think tank - said ownership of the high-tech subs built with US or British know-how would offer a major advantage in deterring aggression from China or elsewhere. But it will also be a fiendishly ... read more |
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France-Greece frigate deal going ahead despite US offer: ParisParis (AFP) Dec 11, 2021 Greece will honour a deal to buy three frigates from France, Paris and a source in the Greek defence ministry said Saturday, after a competing offer from the US threatened to overturn the contract. ... more  
Iran losing 'precious time' with nuclear stance: European diplomatsParis (AFP) Dec 13, 2021 Iran's positions in talks over its nuclear development programme are "inconsistent" with the terms of the deal to limit it, diplomats from the western European countries negotiating with Tehran, said on Monday. ... more 
Iran sees progress at nuclear talksTehran (AFP) Dec 12, 2021 Iran's chief negotiator on Sunday reported progress on an agenda for talks with global powers over its nuclear programme, as Britain said the Vienna negotiations were Tehran's "last chance". ... more 
US preparing 'alternatives' in case Iran nuclear talks fail: BlinkenJakarta (AFP) Dec 14, 2021 The United States is preparing "alternatives" in case efforts to revive a deal to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions collapse, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday, as expectations grow that talks will fail. ... more |
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Blinken urges end to Chinese 'aggressive actions' in Indo-PacificJakarta (AFP) Dec 14, 2021 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday urged China to cease "aggressive actions" in the Indo-Pacific, speaking during a visit to the region, as Washington seeks to bolster alliances against Beijing. ... more  
University of Guam Drone Corps produces first batch of FAA-certified drone pilotsMangilao, Guam (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 The University of Guam Drone Corps program has produced its first 12 Federal Aviation Administration-certified drone pilots with more to come. The 12 students passed the FAA exam this semester and a ... more  
Redwire announces supplier agreement with Terran Orbital to support satellite manufacturingJacksonville FL (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 Redwire Corporation, a global leader in mission critical space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, has announced a three-year supplier agreement with Terran Orbital, a global leade ... more  
Rocket Lab launches 109th satellite to orbitMahia, New Zealand (SPX) Dec 09, 2021 Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has successfully deployed two satellites to orbit for real-time geospatial intelligence company BlackSky, bringing the total number of satellites deployed by Rocket Lab to 109. ... more 
New rocket test facility under construction in ScotlandLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 The UK Space Agency welcomes the news that British company Orbex is constructing a state-of-the-art rocket test facility in Kinloss, Scotland. Ian Annett, Deputy CEO of the UK Space Agency, sa ... more |
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US offers Greece frigate deal in competition with FranceWashington (AFP) Dec 10, 2021 The US State Department announced on Friday the approval of the potential sale of naval frigates to Athens to challenge a deal announced between France and Greece in September. ... more  
Yemen senior military official killed in fight for MaribDubai (AFP) Dec 13, 2021 A Yemeni senior military commander was killed in fighting between government forces and Huthi rebels for the strategic city of Marib, the defence ministry said on Monday. ... more  
World Bank says donors approve release of $280 mn for AfghanistanWashington (AFP) Dec 10, 2021 International donors agreed to release $280 million in aid to Afghanistan, the World Bank said Friday, after repeated warnings that more than half the population face "acute" food shortages this winter. ... more 
Taliban behind at least 72 extrajudicial killings: UNGeneva (AFP) Dec 14, 2021 The UN decried Tuesday credible allegations of more than 100 extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan since the Taliban took power in August, with most carried out by the Taliban themselves. ... more 
China's Uyghur population control was genocide: reportLondon (AFP) Dec 9, 2021 China committed genocide in the Xinjiang region by preventing births in the Uyghur population, a London panel probing alleged human rights abuses concluded on Thursday. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 06, 2021 
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced the completion of military construction and installation of radar arrays for the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) during a ceremony declaring the initial fielding of the radar here Dec. 6.
LRDR is a multi-mission, multi-face radar with a wide field of view. Its massive arrays, each measuring 60 feet high by 60 feet wide, and advanced ga ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 10, 2021 
A team of scientists has built and successfully tested a prototype based on a novel idea created more than two decades ago by an American space agency expert of Chinese descent.
A Chinese research team has built and tested a prototype hypersonic flight engine, capable of operating in Mach 4 to Mach 8 (4,900-9,800 kph) speed conditions, based on a design cooked up in NASA but later rejected ... more |
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 Fort Campbell TN (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 
Researchers, roboticists, and technologists deployed swarms of autonomous air and ground vehicles to test mission capabilities in the final field experiment (FX-6) of DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program at the Cassidy Combined Arms Collective Training Facility (CACTF) in Fort Campbell, Tennessee. Since the program kicked off in 2017, OFFSET has held six field experiments wit ... more |
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 Reston VA (SPX) Dec 06, 2021 
SES Government Solutions has announced its new Common Operational Picture (COP) platform, Hydra, built exclusively to serve the U.S. Government and military. Managed and operated in-house, Hydra is a modular web-based monitoring and control system that provides end-to-end situational awareness in a single unified operational network platform.
Hydra collects, normalizes, and organizes data ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Nov 12, 2021 
Two Russian paratroopers died during snap military drills with Belarus near its western border with EU member Poland on Friday when their parachutes malfunctioned in strong winds, the defence ministry in Moscow said.
"Despite doctors' efforts both Russian servicemen died of their wounds," the ministry said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies.
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 Phnom Penh (AFP) Dec 10, 2021 
Cambodian leader Hun Sen ordered the country's military to destroy any US weaponry or dump it in warehouses on Friday, after Washington imposed an arms embargo over human rights concerns and Phnom Penh's close ties with China.
The US on Wednesday imposed an arms embargo on Cambodia, citing concerns about human rights and corruption in the southeast Asian nation as well as China's activities ... more |
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 Jakarta (AFP) Dec 14, 2021 
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday urged China to cease "aggressive actions" in the Indo-Pacific, speaking during a visit to the region, as Washington seeks to bolster alliances against Beijing.
President Joe Biden's administration is trying to reset relations and reassert its influence in Asia after the turbulence and unpredictability of the Donald Trump era.
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 Groningen, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 27, 2021 
It is an intuitive rule of thumb: if you reduce the density of a material, its stiffness will also be reduced. But scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US noticed that materials that are based on sandwich nanotubes retained their stiffness at lower densities.
Modelling by materials scientists from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) revealed how this ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Dec 13, 2021 
A case filed by the Hashed al-Shaabi former paramilitary alliance contesting its defeat in Iraq's October 10 parliamentary election opened in a federal court on Monday.
Judge Jassem Mohamed Aboud, whose court must rule on the complaint before final results are ratified and a new parliament is inaugurated, adjourned the case until December 22 after a procedural hearing.
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 Tehran (AFP) Dec 12, 2021 
Iran's chief negotiator on Sunday reported progress on an agenda for talks with global powers over its nuclear programme, as Britain said the Vienna negotiations were Tehran's "last chance".
Talks restarted on Thursday to try to revive the 2015 deal between Iran and other nations, which the United States withdrew from under Donald Trump in 2018.
US President Joe Biden has said he is read ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 14, 2021 
Chinese real estate firm Shimao Group's share price plunged to its lowest level in a decade Tuesday, adding to concerns over the country's heavily indebted property sector.
Chinese property firms have struggled in the wake of Beijing's drive last year to curb excessive debt in the real estate sector as well as rampant consumer speculation.
Last week property giant Evergrande defaulted on ... more |
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 Mayfield, United States (AFP) Dec 13, 2021  In Mayfield, a US town razed by the weekend's tornadoes, locals say they are driven by their Christian faith to clear the rubble, collect supplies and turn their churches into shelters for those left homeless by one of the most devastating storm outbreaks in American history.
The small town in southern Kentucky is part of the "Bible Belt," a swathe of the southern United States where life ce ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 10, 2021 
A Long March-4B rocket on Friday morning successfully sent a new group of satellites into space, marking the 400th launch mission of the China-developed Long March carrier rocket series.
Since the first launch in 1970, the Long March carrier rocket series has carried out 92.1 percent of China's space launch mission, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 14, 2021 
Against a backdrop of colourful banners and fluttering flags, local Hong Kong politician Allan Wong is trying to get morning commuters excited about the city's upcoming "patriots only" legislature polls.
Wong, 41, is one of 153 people vetted for their political loyalty and allowed to stand in a new system that has drastically curtailed who can run for office.
Polling data suggests turnou ... more |
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 Kojo, Iraq (AFP) Dec 9, 2021 
Incense wafted in the air as a funeral cortege made its way Thursday to a cemetery in northern Iraq for the burial of 41 Yazidis killed by jihadists and recovered from mass graves.
After seizing swathes of Iraq in 2014, Islamic State group jihadists carried out horrific massacres, including in the northern region of Sinjar where the Kurdish-speaking Yazidi minority has long been rooted.
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Nov 04, 2021 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate is partnering with The University of New Mexico (UNM) to establish a center for directed energy studies, a congressionally-funded endeavor.
The Directed Energy Center will be based at UNM and jointly managed by UNM's School of Engineering and UNM's Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM). AFRL is recognized as the nation's ... more |
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