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  Seoul (AFP) May 4, 2022 North Korea fired a ballistic missile Wednesday, Seoul said, a week after Kim Jong Un vowed to boost Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal and just days before the South inaugurates a new, hawkish president. Pyongyang has conducted 14 weapons tests since January, including firing an intercontinental ballistic missile at full-range for the first time since 2017. Last week Kim oversaw a huge military parade, vowed to rapidly expand and improve his nuclear arsenal, and warned of possible "pre-emptive" strike ... read more |
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Variations on victory: How Ukraine might win the warParis (AFP) May 3, 2022 When Russia rolled into Ukraine in February, nobody in the west thought that Kyiv stood a chance against the mighty invader. ... more  
Russia struggles to turn Black Sea rule into amphibious attackParis (AFP) May 3, 2022 Russia may rule the Black Sea but any amphibious assault on the Ukrainian coast seems risky so long as Kyiv's defences threaten any warships that venture too close, experts say. ... more 
Belarus launches 'surprise' military manoeuvresMoscow (AFP) May 4, 2022 Belarus, a Moscow ally that shares a border with Ukraine, launched "surprise" military manoeuvres on Wednesday, to test the reactive capacity of its army, its defence ministry said. ... more  
NIC4 awarded satcomm service provider registry prototype contract for US Space ForceTampa FL (SPX) May 04, 2022 NIC4, a subsidiary of Network Innovations, has been awarded a Service Provider Registry (SPR) prototype, a component of the Satellite Communications (SATCOM) Enterprise Management and Control (EM&C) ... more |
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Biden tours anti-tank missile factory, urges billions for UkraineTroy, United States (AFP) May 3, 2022 Standing in front of stacks of Javelin missiles at an Alabama factory, President Joe Biden told workers assembling the weapon, which has been wreaking havoc on Russian tanks in Ukraine, that they are part of a historic battle for democracy. ... more 
Slovakia to repair damaged Ukrainian military equipmentBratislava (AFP) May 3, 2022 A Slovak company will repair damaged Ukrainian military equipment following a request from Kyiv, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. ... more  
German finance watchdog sees 'very big' risk of cyberattacksFrankfurt (AFP) May 3, 2022 Germany's financial regulator BaFin warned Tuesday of the "very big" risk of cyberattacks targeting the financial sector, a threat it said had become "more likely" since Russia's war on Ukraine. ... more  
France says Mali exit from defence accords 'unjustified'Paris (AFP) May 3, 2022 Mali's decision to renounce a military cooperation agreement with France after it fell out with the ruling junta is "unjustified" and would not affect the military withdrawal, a French foreign ministry spokesman said Tuesday. ... more |
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New standard will aid in classification of commercial spaceflight safety eventsWest Conshohocken PA (SPX) May 03, 2022 ASTM's commercial spaceflight committee (F47) has approved a new standard that will help to enhance commercial spaceflight safety. The standard (F3550) provides guidance to space flight operators on ... more  
British rocket company calls for Iceland to grant licence for landmark launchEdinburgh UK (SPX) May 03, 2022 British rocket company Skyrora has called on the Icelandic government to grant the licence that would end a months-long delay to Europe's largest-ever suborbital rocket launch, originally set for Se ... more 
Aphelion Aerospace completes rocket engine development testLakewoood CA (SPX) May 03, 2022 Aphelion Aerospace is proud to announce reaching a major milestone in developing the company's commercial launch services with the completion of critical propulsion system testing. The team recently ... more 
China's North Korea envoy in Seoul for talksSeoul (AFP) May 3, 2022 China will play a "constructive" role in resolving tensions on the Korean peninsula, Beijing's top envoy to Pyongyang said Tuesday. ... more |
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Propaganda in Russia arguing for nuclear weapons use: Nobel laureateGeneva (AFP) May 3, 2022 Russian journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov decried Tuesday Russian propaganda arguing for using nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict, warning that would signal "the end of humanity". ... more 
Spacecraft navigation uses x-rays from dead starsUrbana IL (SPX) May 04, 2022 The remnants of a collapsed neutron star, called a pulsar, are magnetically charged and spinning anywhere from one rotation per second to hundreds of rotations per second. These celestial bodies, ea ... more  
4,000 uprooted by fighting in Iraq's Sinjar: Kurdish officialArbil, Iraq (AFP) May 3, 2022 Thousands have been displaced by combat between the Iraqi army and Yazidi fighters affiliated with Turkey's banned separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an official from Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region said Tuesday. ... more 
Al-Shabaab claims deadly attack on AU base in SomaliaMogadishu (AFP) May 3, 2022 Al-Shabaab jihadists armed with guns and explosives stormed an African Union base in Somalia on Tuesday, triggering a fierce firefight that killed an unknown number of Burundian peacekeepers. ... more  
Years after IS defeat, northern Iraq struggles to rebuildHabash, Iraq (AFP) May 3, 2022 In Iraq, "maku" means "nothing", and father-of-five Issa al-Zamzoum says "maku" a lot: no electricity, no home, no rebuilding and no job. ... more |
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 Istanbul (AFP) April 27, 2022 
NATO member Turkey said it was still talking to Russia about procuring a second batch of one of its most advanced missile defence systems despite the war in Ukraine.
The comments on state television late Tuesday by the head of Turkey's military procurement agency underscore Ankara's efforts to maintain good relations with Moscow during the conflict.
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 Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) April 29, 2022 
Russia confirmed Friday that it carried out an air strike on Kyiv during a visit by the UN's secretary general, the first such attack on the Ukrainian capital in nearly two weeks, and in which a journalist also died.
Vera Gyrych, a producer for the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was killed when a Russian missile hit the building where she lived, the media group said.
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 Beijing (AFP) April 27, 2022 
The world's largest drone maker DJI has said it will pause all business operations in Russia and Ukraine, in a rare public suspension by a Chinese firm since Moscow's invasion of its neighbour.
Russia has been hit with an avalanche of sanctions over the war and many Western multinationals have pulled out of the country.
Beijing has refused to condemn the invasion, however, and Chinese co ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 22, 2022 
Warfighters depend on high-frequency (HF) radio transmissions to operate military systems across the space, air, ground, and maritime domains. Current understanding of how HF waves propagate through the electromagnetically noisy ionosphere typically depends on ground-based methods. To more accurately understand HF propagation in space requires scientific measurements taken from within the ionosp ... more |
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 Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 
Five new Department of the Air Force, or DAF, capability priorities are in the 2022 Topical Call for Solutions and Concepts announced to industry partners at the DAF Future Force Capability Development Strategy Interchange Meeting, or SIM, Phase I from March 14-16.
Leaders shared DAF's future force strategies, efforts, challenges, and investments geared towards securing strategic advantage ... more |
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 Troy, United States (AFP) May 3, 2022 
Standing in front of stacks of Javelin missiles at an Alabama factory, President Joe Biden told workers assembling the weapon, which has been wreaking havoc on Russian tanks in Ukraine, that they are part of a historic battle for democracy.
"These weapons touched by the hands, your hands, are in the hands of Ukrainian heroes, making a significant difference," Biden said at the Lockheed Marti ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 1, 2022 
In rallying global arms supplies and asking Congress for $33 billion more to support Ukraine, Washington is choosing to ignore Vladimir Putin's threats to use nuclear arms, and instead is openly testing the Russian leader's limits.
After the United States brought 40 countries to a US base in Germany last week to discuss aid for Ukraine's war with Russia, Putin on Wednesday threatened a "ligh ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Apr 14, 2022 
From designing new biomaterials to novel photonic devices, new materials built through a process called bottom-up nanofabrication, or self-assembly, are opening up pathways to new technologies with properties tuned at the nanoscale. However, to fully unlock the potential of these new materials, researchers need to "see" into their tiny creations so that they can control the design and fabricatio ... more |
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 Arbil, Iraq (AFP) May 3, 2022 
Thousands have been displaced by combat between the Iraqi army and Yazidi fighters affiliated with Turkey's banned separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an official from Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region said Tuesday.
The Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking non-Arab, non-Muslim minority who were massacred by Islamic State group jihadists in 2014.
Clashes left one Iraqi soldier dead on M ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) May 4, 2022 
North Korea fired a ballistic missile Wednesday, Seoul said, a week after Kim Jong Un vowed to boost Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal and just days before the South inaugurates a new, hawkish president.
Pyongyang has conducted 14 weapons tests since January, including firing an intercontinental ballistic missile at full-range for the first time since 2017.
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 Hong Kong (AFP) May 4, 2022 
Equities fell in Asian trade Wednesday as traders nervously awaited what is expected to be the biggest Federal Reserve interest rate hike in more than two decades.
With inflation showing little sign of easing from its 40-year highs, the US central bank has set itself on a hawkish course of tightening this year, sending shivers through world markets.
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 Beijing (AFP) May 3, 2022 
A woman was pulled out alive Tuesday from the rubble of a building that collapsed four days ago in central China, state media said, calling the rescue a "miracle".
The commercial building in Changsha city, Hunan province - which housed apartments, a hotel and a cinema - caved in on Friday, sparking a massive rescue effort with hundreds of emergency responders.
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 28, 2022 
On Tuesday, China opened the return capsule of the Shenzhou-13 manned spaceship which carried three astronauts back to Earth on April 16, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
Items carried by the spacecraft, including crop seeds, 8K high-definition memory card storing images and videos taken by the astronauts in orbit, commemorative stamps, and paintings by Hong Kong teenager ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) April 29, 2022 
A Hong Kong judge increased a university student's jail sentence to five years on Friday for messages sent on Telegram advocating the city's independence from China and calls to resist communist rule.
Lui Sai-yu, a 25-year-old engineering student, pleaded guilty to "incitement to secession", a crime under the national security law imposed by Beijing in 2020 to crush dissent.
Lui is the ... more |
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 Habash, Iraq (AFP) May 3, 2022 
In Iraq, "maku" means "nothing", and father-of-five Issa al-Zamzoum says "maku" a lot: no electricity, no home, no rebuilding and no job.
Eight years after heavy fighting between Islamic State jihadists and the army, the reconstruction of his war-ravaged village in northern Iraq is at a standstill.
"There is nothing here, no electricity," 42-year-old Zamzoum sighed. "Even work, there is ... more |
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 Arlington VA (SPX) Apr 15, 2022 
The ground-based laser system homed in on the red drone flying by, shooting a high-energy beam invisible to the naked eye. Suddenly, a fiery orange glow flared on the drone, smoke poured from its engine and a parachute opened as the craft tumbled downward, disabled by the laser beam.
The February demonstration marked the first time the U.S. Navy used an all-electric, high-energy laser weap ... more |
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