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  Moscow (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 A Moscow-led military alliance said Thursday it had sent its first troops to Kazakhstan after its government requested help to quell mounting unrest. "Peacekeeping forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation were sent to the Republic of Kazakhstan for a limited time to stabilise and normalise the situation," the CSTO secretariat said in a statement posted by Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. It said the deployment included units of the armed forces of Russia, Belaru ... read more |
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Japan, Australia sign defence treaty with eyes on ChinaTokyo (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 Japan and Australia on Thursday signed a "landmark" treaty to strengthen defence ties, saying the accord would contribute to regional stability, as China expands its military and economic clout. ... more  
Voyager Space Completes Acquisition of Space MicroDenver CO (SPX) Jan 06, 2022 Voyager Space Inc. (Voyager), a global leader in space exploration has announced it has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in San Diego-based Space Micro. Voyager will provide strategic o ... more  
Russian rocket is in uncontrolled descent to EarthWashington DC (UPI) Jan 5, 2021 A Russian rocket is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere Wednesday in an uncontrolled descent. ... more  
Northrop Grumman completes Precision Strike Missile rocket motor static testRocket Center WV (SPX) Jan 06, 2022 Northrop Grumman has completed a static test of its Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) rocket motor as part of its motor qualification effort. The test supports the necessary requirements to validate t ... more |
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Taiwan troops simulate urban warfare with ChinaKaohsiung, Taiwan (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 Taiwanese troops and armoured vehicles were deployed Thursday for a mock urban street battle in the latest drill preparing forces against China, which has long vowed to take the island. ... more  
South Korea grounds F-35s after malfunction forces emergency landingSeoul (AFP) Jan 5, 2022 South Korea has grounded its entire fleet of advanced F-35 fighter jets, officials said Wednesday, pending a probe into a dramatic emergency landing. ... more  
Chinese spy spoof draws rare response from MI6 chiefBeijing (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 Britain's spy chief on Thursday thanked China's state news agency for "free publicity" after it posted a spoof of James Bond that mocked the Western intelligence community's growing focus on threats posed by Beijing. ... more 
Taiwan begins deporting Chinese nationals in rare cooperationTaipei (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 Taiwan has started deporting Chinese nationals for the first time in over a year, authorities said Thursday, following China's return of a Taiwanese fugitive in a rare act of cooperation as tensions rise. ... more 
Taiwan sets up $200m fund for Lithuania after China rowVilnius (AFP) Jan 5, 2022 Taiwan said Wednesday it would set up a fund with $200 million (176 million euros) to invest in Lithuania, as businesses there complain of losses from a China-Lithuania row. ... more |
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Oldest US veteran dies age 112Washington (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 The United States' oldest living veteran, Lawrence Brooks, died Wednesday at the age of 112, the World War II Museum in New Orleans announced. ... more 
Jordan king meets Israeli defence ministerAmman (AFP) Jan 5, 2022 Jordan's King Abdullah II and Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz discussed regional security Wednesday, in the latest visit by a senior Israeli official to the kingdom in recent months. ... more  
US-led coalition comes under fire in Iraq and SyriaBaghdad (AFP) Jan 5, 2022 The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group came under fire Wednesday in Iraq and Syria but reported no casualties, in the latest of several attacks that Washington blamed on "Iran-backed groups". ... more 
NATO foreign ministers to hold emergency talks on UkraineBrussels (AFP) Jan 4, 2022 NATO foreign ministers will hold an emergency videoconference on Friday to discuss Russia's military build-up around Ukraine, after a raft of demands from Moscow, the alliance said. ... more 
US Govt orders Polyakov to sell entire Firefly Aerospace stakeMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 01, 2022 The businessman revitalised the space company using his own funds back in 2017, when it was on the brink of bankruptcy. Since then, the firm secured its first contracts with the US government and he ... 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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 Rocket Center WV (SPX) Jan 06, 2022 
Northrop Grumman has completed a static test of its Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) rocket motor as part of its motor qualification effort. The test supports the necessary requirements to validate the company's motor design for production.
"With another successful rocket motor test complete, we are one step closer to providing the U.S. Army with a next-generation, long range fires capabili ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Jan 4, 2022 
Two armed drones targeting an air base in western Iraq were shot down on Tuesday, an official of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said.
"Two fixed-wing drones rigged with explosives were engaged and destroyed by defensive capabilities at the Iraqi Al-Asad Air Base early this morning," the official said.
"The attempted attack was unsuccessful. All forces are account ... 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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 Washington (AFP) Dec 28, 2021 
The United States renewed calls Tuesday for an arms embargo on Myanmar's junta after a Christmas Eve massacre in which Save the Children said two of the group's staff were killed.
"The targeting of innocent people and humanitarian actors is unacceptable, and the military's widespread atrocities against the people of Burma underscore the urgency of holding its members accountable," US Secreta ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Jan 4, 2022 
NATO foreign ministers will hold an emergency videoconference on Friday to discuss Russia's military build-up around Ukraine, after a raft of demands from Moscow, the alliance said.
Tensions have soared in recent months as the West has warned that the Kremlin could be planning a full-scale invasion of its neighbour after massing some 100,000 troops at the frontier.
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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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 Hilla, Iraq (AFP) Jan 3, 2022 
"False intelligence" and a family dispute were the causes behind an Iraqi security operation last week that killed 20 people from the same family, the judiciary said Monday.
The intelligence was provided by an informant who had "family disputes" with one of the victims, the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council said in a statement reported by the state-owned Iraq News Agency.
The informant, "ni ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 4, 2022 
China Tuesday said it will continue to "modernise" its nuclear arsenal and called on the United States and Russia to reduce their stockpiles a day after global powers pledged to prevent such weapons spreading.
In a rare joint statement setting aside rising West-East tensions, the United States, China, Russia, Britain and France reaffirmed their goal of creating a world free of atomic weapons ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 5, 2022 
Shares in China's state-owned debt collector Huarong Asset Management plummeted 50 percent on Wednesday as trading resumed in Hong Kong after a $6.6 billion state-orchestrated bailout of the embattled company.
The company's Hong Kong-traded shares were suspended in April last year after it delayed its annual report, spooking Asian markets.
When Huarong published its results in August, it ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 4, 2022 
A landslide at a construction site in southwest China's Guizhou province has killed at least 14 people, state media reported Tuesday.
Workers were reinforcing a hillside when the landslide happened on Monday evening, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Rescuers have found 14 bodies, as well as three injured people, with the cause of the accident "still under investigation", Xinhua repo ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 06, 2022 
China will complete the building of its space station in 2022, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
The country will see 40-plus space launches in 2022, including multiple manned space flights, the company said at a recent conference on its plan for the new year.
It plans to launch two cargo craft, two Shenzhou spaceships and two laboratory modules of ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 5, 2022 
Beijing's air pollution is far below acceptable World Health Organization levels with the Chinese capital a month away from hosting the Winter Olympics - but environmental data shows its skies have improved dramatically in recent years.
The city declared a "war on pollution" after winning the Olympics bid in 2015, shutting down dozens of coal plants and relocating heavy industries in order ... more |
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 Yangon (AFP) Dec 28, 2021  Save the Children confirmed on Tuesday that two of its staff were killed in a Christmas Eve massacre of more than 30 people in Myanmar blamed on junta troops, leading the United States to press for an arms embargo.
Anti-junta fighters said they found over 30 burnt bodies, including women and children, on a highway in eastern Kayah state where pro-democracy rebels have been fighting the milit ... 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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