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  United Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 6, 2022 North Korea pressed ahead with the development of its nuclear and missile programs last year despite international sanctions, according to a confidential United Nations report seen by AFP on Saturday. Pyongyang is under major sanctions over its weapons programs, including a ban on exports of coal, iron, lead, textiles, seafood and other products. While no nuclear tests or launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles were reported last year, North Korea kept developing "its capability for prod ... read more |
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UCF lands DOD award for advance hypersonic propulsion researchOrlando FL (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 Anew race to harness hypersonic speed for travel and defense has started, and University of Central Florida researchers are helping the U.S. stay ahead of the pack with a new $1.5 million U.S. Depar ... more  
Russia, China hit out at US influence in Europe and AsiaBeijing (AFP) Feb 4, 2022 Moscow and Beijing criticised what they said was negative US influence both in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region after a Friday meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. ... more 
Russia wins Chinese backing in showdown over UkraineMoscow (AFP) Feb 4, 2022 Russia won China's backing in its showdown with the West over Ukraine on Friday, as Beijing agreed with Moscow that the US-led NATO military alliance should not admit new members. ... more 
More US troops land in Poland to deter 'war aims': generalRzeszow, Poland (AFP) Feb 6, 2022 A large contingent of US troops landed in Poland on Sunday as part of a reinforcement due to tensions with Russia, with their commander saying they aimed to deter "any war aims" and defend NATO if needed. ... more |
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Iran says Vienna talks 'far from balance in commitments'Tehran (AFP) Feb 6, 2022 Iran's top security official said Sunday that Washington and Tehran had so far failed to produce "balance" in their commitments during the Vienna talks aimed at restoring the nuclear deal. ... more
Iran says US sanctions move 'good but not enough'Tehran (AFP) Feb 5, 2022 US steps on lifting sanctions are "good but not enough", Iran said Saturday, following Washington's announcement it was waiving sanctions on Iran's civil nuclear programme. ... more 
US waives sanctions for Iran civil nuclear programWashington (AFP) Feb 5, 2022 The US State Department is waiving sanctions on Iran's civilian nuclear program in a technical step necessary to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement, a senior official said Friday. ... more 
China urges more 'flexibility' from US on NKoreaUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 4, 2022 China's UN ambassador on Friday called on the United States to be more flexible in its dealings with North Korea, as Beijing joined others to scrap a US-drafted Security Council joint statement condemning Pyongyang's missile launches, diplomats said. ... more 
After eight years of war, Ukraine's army a tougher prospectKyiv (AFP) Feb 4, 2022 When he arrived at the front line as a volunteer to fight Russian-backed separatists in 2014, Pavlo Dolynskiy found Ukraine's army in a desperate state. ... more |
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Stoltenberg to leave NATO after battle to keep US in and Russia outBrussels (AFP) Feb 4, 2022 NATO's outgoing leader Jens Stoltenberg will leave the alliance late this year after a diplomatic battle to hold it together against outside threats and the clashing egos of its national leaders. ... more 
Arianespace to serve OneWeb's ambitions, will orbit 34 additional satellites with SoyuzEvry, France (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 After the successful launch of NASA's Webb Space Telescope on December 25 with Ariane 5, Arianespace is back to the Guiana Space Center (CSG) with Soyuz for a February 10 lift-off. The first Arianes ... more 
Search is on for young space entrepreneurs ahead of first UK rocket launchesLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 With Britain's first satellite launches set to take place this year, the SatelLife Competition is looking for the best new ideas for how to use data collected from space to benefit daily life, from ... more  
Iraq political kingmaker Sadr puts vote for president in doubtBaghdad (AFP) Feb 5, 2022 The largest bloc in the Iraqi parliament, led by powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, announced Saturday a boycott of a session called next week to elect the country's president. ... more  
US probe finds single attacker in Kabul evacuation bombingWashington (AFP) Feb 4, 2022 An attack that killed at least 173 people including 13 US service members during the chaotic Kabul airport evacuation last year was undertaken by a single suicide bomber, a Pentagon investigation concluded Friday. ... more |
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 Dubai (AFP) Jan 30, 2022 
The UAE said Monday it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by Yemen's Huthi rebels towards the Gulf country with no casualties reported, the third such incident this month.
The defence ministry said in a statement that United Arab Emirates "air defences intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Huthi terrorist group towards the country".
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 01, 2022 
In October 2021, Gen. John Hyten, then-vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned that China's military capabilities would soon surpass that of both Washington and Moscow. Hyten claimed that, within a five-year period, Beijing had conducted hundreds of hypersonic weapons tests, versus the nine completed by the US.
As the US attempts to catch up with Russia and China's development o ... more |
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 Dubai (AFP) Feb 2, 2022 
The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday said it prevented another drone attack over its territory, after Washington said it will send a warship and fighter jets to help defend its Gulf ally as conflict with Yemeni rebels intensifies.
The UAE, a major financial hub and part of the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels for seven years, announced the "interception and dest ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 
Radio frequency (RF) and microwave signals invisibly permeate the environment around us, carrying everything from radar signatures to the data from our mobile phones. Within RF systems, electronic oscillators can act as precise clocks or directly generate the baseline microwave tones.
While an ideal oscillator provides a tone at a singular frequency, component imperfections and coupling to ... 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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 Geneva (AFP) Feb 1, 2022 
The UN expert on rights in Myanmar announced Tuesday he is preparing to release a report exposing where the country's "criminal" ruling junta have been getting their weapons from.
Exactly one year on from the February 1, 2021 military coup, Tom Andrews said the junta was inflicting a widespread campaign of terror on the country's people - and seemed to be getting away with it.
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 4, 2022 
Moscow and Beijing criticised what they said was negative US influence both in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region after a Friday meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
Putin and Xi met in Beijing ahead of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games, as both their countries face increasing criticism from Washington.
A document agreed by ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 
A hundred years of physics tells us that collective atomic vibrations, called phonons, can behave like particles or waves. When they hit an interface between two materials, they can bounce off like a tennis ball. If the materials are thin and repeating, as in a superlattice, the phonons can jump between successive materials.
Now there is definitive, experimental proof that at the nanoscale ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Feb 7, 2022 
A scheduled vote by Iraq's parliament to elect a new national president was thrown into doubt Monday after key factions announced boycotts and a frontrunner was suspended by a court.
A cancellation would be the latest chapter of political turmoil in the war-scarred country which, almost four months after a general election, still hasn't chosen a new prime minister.
The vote for the head ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 6, 2022 
North Korea pressed ahead with the development of its nuclear and missile programs last year despite international sanctions, according to a confidential United Nations report seen by AFP on Saturday.
Pyongyang is under major sanctions over its weapons programs, including a ban on exports of coal, iron, lead, textiles, seafood and other products.
While no nuclear tests or launches of int ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 6, 2022 
China welcomed Argentina into its global Belt and Road Initiative Sunday as President Xi Jinping capped a weekend of frenetic diplomatic activity on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics.
Xi has not left his country since the coronavirus first emerged in the city of Wuhan, with China now the only major economy still pursuing a strict zero-Covid strategy.
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 Copenhagen (AFP) Feb 2, 2022 
Extreme weather events such as heatwaves and floods have cost Europe almost 510 billion euros and around 142,000 lives over the past 40 years, according to a new report published Thursday.
In its study, the European Environment Agency (EEA) called for continued adaptation measures at both individual and state level.
A small number of extreme events, about three percent of the total, were ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2022 
China will explore the moon's polar regions and is mulling over a manned lunar landing in the coming five years, according to a white paper released on Friday.
The white paper, titled "China's Space Program: A 2021 Perspective," said China will continue its studies and research "on the plan for a human lunar landing."
A new-generation manned spacecraft will be developed to support it ... more |
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 Guwahati, India (AFP) Feb 3, 2022 
An Indian teenager detained for more than a week by Chinese troops along the nations' disputed Himalayan frontier was tortured while in captivity, his family said Thursday.
Miram Teron was on a hunting trip in northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state when he was taken into custody by soldiers from the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
The 17-year-old was repatriated nine days later but his fa ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 3, 2022 
By early December US intelligence was certain: the man occupying the top floor of a nondescript house in Atme, northern Syria - who never left the premises, emerging only to bathe on the roof - was the head of the Islamic State group.
In the White House Situation Room, a table-top model of the house was set up, and President Joe Biden was briefed on his options to neutralize Abu Ibrahim al ... 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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