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  Moscow (AFP) Dec 28, 2021 The United States and Russia will hold much-anticipated talks in January on European security and the Ukraine conflict after Moscow listed demands including to end NATO's expansion. A spokesperson for the US National Security Council told AFP on condition of anonymity late Monday that the talks with Russia will take place on January 10. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Tuesday confirmed the date and said that they will take place in Geneva, where US President Joe Biden and his R ... read more |
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Ukraine trains civilians to defend against Russian invasionKiev (AFP) Dec 28, 2021 In a forested area just outside Ukraine's capital Kiev, mock Russian troops ambush camouflage-clad army reservists. ... more  
'Difficult' Iran nuclear talks resume: EU diplomatVienna (AFP) Dec 27, 2021 Negotiators trying to save the landmark Iran nuclear deal resumed discussions on Monday with the EU chair warning of "difficult" work ahead. ... more 
Turkey urges Russia to drop 'one-sided' NATO demandsAnkara (AFP) Dec 27, 2021 Turkey urged Russia on Monday to drop "one-sided" demands and adopt a more constructive approach in its standoff with Western powers and NATO over Ukraine. ... more  
World's most sophisticated commercial communications satellite launchedLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 27, 2021 Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications confirms the successful launch of its first Inmarsat-6 satellite, I-6 F1, by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) from the JAXA Tan ... more |
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Philippines to buy two new South Korean warships for $556MManila (AFP) Dec 28, 2021 The Philippines has ordered two new warships from South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries, Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Tuesday, modernising Manila's navy as it faces a dispute with Beijing in the South China Sea. ... more  
Delta cites new China Covid rules after flight returns to USNew York (AFP) Dec 27, 2021 Delta Air Lines on Monday cited new Chinese cleaning requirements after it rerouted a China-bound flight back to the United States, drawing criticism from Chinese authorities. ... more  
Israeli air strike targets Syrian port of Latakia: state mediaDamascus (AFP) Dec 28, 2021 An Israeli air strike hit Syria's Latakia port on Tuesday, the second such attack on the key facility this month, according to Syrian state media. ... more  
Iraq's top court rejects fraud claims, ratifies election resultsBaghdad (AFP) Dec 27, 2021 Iraq's top court on Monday ratified the country's October parliamentary election results after rejecting a complaint of irregularities filed by the pro-Iran Hashed al-Shaabi former paramilitary alliance. ... more  
Putin hails multiple launch test of hypersonic missileMoscow (AFP) Dec 24, 2021 President Vladimir Putin said Friday the Russian military successfully fired a simultaneous salvo of its Zircon hypersonic missiles, calling it "a big event" for the country. ... more |
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Japan unveils record annual budget and defence spendTokyo (AFP) Dec 24, 2021 Japan's government on Friday unveiled its biggest ever full-year budget, including record defence spending to counter intensifying regional security threats. ... more 
Yemen rebels allow aid flights to resume after Saudi-led strikesSanaa (AFP) Dec 28, 2021 Yemen's Huthi rebels said Tuesday they have allowed the temporary resumption of UN aid flights into the capital Sanaa, a week after a halt due to Saudi-led coalition air strikes. ... more 
Iran fires missiles during drills in warning to IsraelTehran (AFP) Dec 24, 2021 Iran fired multiple ballistic missiles Friday at the close of five days of military drills that generals said were a warning to arch-enemy Israel. ... more 
Iran says won't enrich uranium beyond 60% if talks failTehran (AFP) Dec 25, 2021 Iran has no plans to enrich uranium beyond 60 percent if nuclear talks in Vienna fail, the head of the country's atomic agency said on Saturday. ... more
Ukraine, separatists trade blame over breaching fresh truceKiev (AFP) Dec 23, 2021 Ukrainian armed forces and pro-Russian separatists on Thursday accused each other of breaching a fresh ceasefire, just as Western countries welcomed an apparent modest easing of tensions. ... more |
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 Melbourne FL (SPX) Dec 27, 2021 
L3Harris Technologies has completed the final major design milestone on the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program Phase IIb On-orbit Prototype Demonstration and has already begun building the demonstration satellite.
Completing the CDR is the final design milestone ensuring performance, cost and schedule requirements can be met b ... more |
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 Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Dec 20, 2021 
A unique partnership with Norway and the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command will extend satellite communications for U.S. polar forces and save taxpayers millions of dollars.
SSC's Enhanced Polar Systems-Recapitalization (EPS-R) program successfully completed the ready-to-ship review at the end of September for the first of two payloads to begin the integration process onto Space Nor ... more |
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 Palmdale CA (SPX) Dec 20, 2021 
Northrop Grumman Corporation recently completed a significant milestone in the production of Australia's first MQ-4C Triton high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) aircraft when the aircraft fuselage was mounted onto Triton's unique one-piece wing. Once completed and delivered, Triton's powerful payload and endurance will provide the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) with the ability to detect and ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Dec 21, 2021 
The SPAINSAT NG programme has successfully passed another important milestone, the critical design review (CDR) of the payload and the complete satellite, including the CDR elements of the Pacis 3 partnership project with the European Space Agency (ESA). The review was declared successful after verifying the good progress of the tests performed on the development models of the X-band payload. ... more |
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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's complementary position, navigation, and timing (PNT) AgilePod prototype achieved three important objectives in flight tests conducted here November 1-10.
The test team - representing a broad base of Air Force, Navy, and vendor organizations - successfully executed eight sorties aboard a T-38C aircraft, which included the first test of the PNT AgilePod on ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Dec 24, 2021 
Japan's government on Friday unveiled its biggest ever full-year budget, including record defence spending to counter intensifying regional security threats.
Cabinet ministers approved a draft national budget of a whopping 107.6 trillion yen ($940 billion) for the 2022-23 fiscal year, including 5.4 trillion yen for defence.
Both figures have been increasing steadily for a decade as the c ... more |
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 Ankara (AFP) Dec 27, 2021 
Turkey urged Russia on Monday to drop "one-sided" demands and adopt a more constructive approach in its standoff with Western powers and NATO over Ukraine.
NATO member Turkey has irritated Moscow by supplying combat drones to Ukraine that Russia fears could be used by Kiev in its conflict with separatists in two eastern regions.
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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 27, 2021 
Iraq's top court on Monday ratified the country's October parliamentary election results after rejecting a complaint of irregularities filed by the pro-Iran Hashed al-Shaabi former paramilitary alliance.
The long-awaited ruling will allow parliament to meet and pave the way for the election of a president who will then appoint a prime minister tasked with forming a new government.
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 Tehran (AFP) Dec 23, 2021  Iraq's foreign minister said on a visit to Tehran Thursday that the time has come for the Islamic republic and the United States to negotiate directly on Iran's nuclear ambitions.
US-Iran relations have been severed since April 1980, just months after the fall of the shah and the occupation of the American embassy by Islamist students loyal to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 24, 2021 
Asian markets rose in thin trade on Friday, extending their rally as fears over the Omicron coronavirus variant faded and further positive economic data from the United States cheered investors.
Studies indicating Omicron infections are less likely to result in hospitalisation and US approval of drugs from Merck and Pfizer to add to a growing arsenal of weapons against Covid have increased c ... more |
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 Surigao City, Philippines (AFP) Dec 23, 2021 
Jennifer Vetonio stands on a road in the southern Philippines begging for money and food from passing drivers. A week after Super Typhoon Rai destroyed her house, she has not received a scrap of government aid.
Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless after Rai cut a swathe through the vast archipelago last Thursday, knocking out power across entire islands and leaving desperate survivor ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 27, 2021 
Taikonauts Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu have completed their extravehicular activities (EVAs) and returned to the space station core module Tianhe, the China Manned Space Agency said on early hours of Monday.
This was the fourth time that the taikonauts conducted EVAs during the construction of the country's space station and the second by the Shenzhou XIII crew. The CMSA has declared the E ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Dec 22, 2021 
A prominent Harvard University chemistry professor has been convicted of lying to the US authorities about his links with a Chinese school and recruitment program.
Charles Lieber, 62, the former chair of Harvard's chemistry and chemical biology department, was also convicted on Tuesday of failing to report income he received from the Wuhan University of Technology.
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 Gorgona Island, Colombia (AFP) Dec 23, 2021 
At the end of October, a presidential candidate stirred up old memories when proposing to send corrupt politicians to Colombia's notorious former island prison of Gorgona.
No one took the threat seriously but it did pique interest about a little known part of Colombia's history that could be compared to Alcatraz or Robben Island.
Right up until 1984, this 26 square kilometer island situa ... more |
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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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