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  Ankara (AFP) June 15, 2022 Turkey said on Wednesday that it was waiting for a "written response" from Sweden and Finland to Ankara's objections to their NATO bids. "We have transmitted our questions in writing to these two countries," Turkey Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters. "Now we're waiting for their written responses," he said. The two Nordic countries reversed decades of military non-alignment by applying for NATO memberships in May, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Any NATO membership ... read more |
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Finnish PM sees risk of NATO talks 'freeze'Stockholm (AFP) June 14, 2022 Finland's Prime Minister said Tuesday that Finland's and Sweden's NATO applications could stall if an agreement with Turkey, which is currently blocking their bids, is not reached before a summit this month. ... more 
Ukraine war sparks debate over Finland's 'Achilles heel'Mariehamn (AFP) June 15, 2022 Sprayed between Sweden and Finland, the autonomous Aland Islands are a picturesque archipelago once part of Russia and demilitarised since 1856. ... more 
Xi tells Putin China to keep backing Russia on 'sovereignty, security'Beijing (AFP) June 15, 2022 Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a call Wednesday that Beijing would keep backing Moscow on "sovereignty and security", according to state media. ... more 
Japan to attend NATO summit for first timeTokyo (AFP) June 15, 2022 Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday he will attend this month's NATO summit in Madrid, becoming the country's first leader to join a top meeting of the transatlantic alliance. ... more |
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Ukraine has received 10% of arms requested: defence ministryKyiv, Ukraine (AFP) June 14, 2022 Ukraine has received just 10 percent of the weapons it requested from the West to help fight off the Russian offensive, the deputy defence minister said Tuesday. ... more  
No way around BTS break as military service looms: analystsSeoul (AFP) June 15, 2022 Why would K-pop titans BTS decide to step back from their supergroup and focus on solo careers while at the pinnacle of their success? South Korea's mandatory military service, analysts say. ... more 
Iran says still believes nuclear talks can yield dealTehran (AFP) June 14, 2022 Iran on Tuesday said it still believes that negotiations can succeed to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, despite a recent rebuke from the UN nuclear watchdog. ... more 
Global nuclear spending surges as superpower tensions rise: reportWashington (AFP) June 14, 2022 The world's nuclear powers are increasing investment in their arsenals, with spending up nine percent to $82.4 billion in 2021, according to a report released Tuesday by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). ... more |
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Russia blacklists 49 Britons, including journalistsMoscow (AFP) June 14, 2022 Russia on Tuesday said it was blacklisting 49 UK citizens, including defence officials and prominent reporters and editors from the BBC, The Financial Times and The Guardian. ... more 
Nicaragua approves joint military exercises with RussiaManagua (AFP) June 14, 2022 Nicaragua's parliament on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for Russian troops to be allowed into the country for joint military exercises despite concerns from Washington. ... more  
'Dual robot' drone can fly and dive to monitor water qualityWashington DC (UPI) Jun 14, 2021 A new "dual robot" drone that can fly and dive has successfully collected underwater samples to track water quality changes in hard-to-reach areas. ... more  
NATO chief warns takes time to train Ukraine on Western armsBrussels (AFP) June 15, 2022 NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday there was an "urgent need" to step up arms deliveries to Ukraine, but warned it took time to adapt Kyiv's forces to modernised heavy weapons. ... more |
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Taipei refutes China's claim Taiwan Strait is 'not international waters'Taipei (AFP) June 14, 2022 Taipei on Tuesday condemned China for saying the Taiwan Strait is not international waters, and accused Beijing of trying to endanger regional peace with its territorial claim over it. ... more 
China vows 'fight to the end' to stop Taiwan independenceSingapore (AFP) June 12, 2022 China will "fight to the very end" to stop Taiwanese independence, the country's defence minister vowed Sunday, stoking already soaring tensions with the United States over the island. ... more  
Russia plans Severodonetsk plant evacuation as it bids to encircle cityLysychansk, Ukraine (AFP) June 14, 2022 Russia said Tuesday it would establish a humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians from a chemical plant in Severodonetsk, as the two sides battled for control of the key city in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. ... more 
Echoes of WWI in Ukraine war's artillery duels and trenchesParis (AFP) June 14, 2022 Looking at the shell-blasted, trench-marked landscapes of the front lines in Russia's invasion of Ukraine from above, it's easy to see why experts and leaders have drawn parallels with World War I. ... more 
Russia says destroyed NATO arms depot in western UkraineMoscow (AFP) June 15, 2022 Russia said Wednesday its forces destroyed a depot containing NATO-supplied arms in western Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Western allies to speed up arms deliveries to his country. ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) May 19, 2022 
Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday his country bought Iskander nuclear-capable missiles and S-400 anti-aircraft anti-missile systems from Russia.
The announcement came on the 85th day of Russia's military campaign in Ukraine, with thousands killed. Belarus, Moscow's main ally, has allowed Russian troops to use the country bordering Ukraine as a rear base.
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 14, 2022 
Two core technologies are at the heart of the U.S. pursuit of hypersonic weapons, or those that travel Mach 5 or faster: scramjets, which derive propulsion from the air around them, and boost-glide systems, which use a rocket motor to reach the edge of space and then descend to their target.
Raytheon Missiles and Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business, is making significant investments ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 14, 2021 
A new "dual robot" drone that can fly and dive has successfully collected underwater samples to track water quality changes in hard-to-reach areas.
The drone, which was developed at Imperial College London and called MEDUSA or Multi-Environment Dual robot for Underwater Sample Acquisition, can fly and land on water while dropping a camera with sensors more than 33 feet deep to collect d ... more |
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 Fort Bliss TX (SPX) Jun 14, 2022 
Raytheon Intelligence and Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, successfully demonstrated the next-generation, transportable beyond-line-of-sight, or BLOS, Troposcatter communications system establishing high bandwidth, high stability communication links for the U.S. Army.
The wireless, point-to-point communications system delivers voice and command and control information to decision ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) June 15, 2022 
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday there was an "urgent need" to step up arms deliveries to Ukraine, but warned it took time to adapt Kyiv's forces to modernised heavy weapons.
Around 50 alliance members and partners are meeting in Brussels to discuss Ukraine's desperate pleas for more hardware as it struggles to hold back Russia's onslaught in the east of the country.
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 Villepinte, France (AFP) June 14, 2022 
Lithuania has agreed to buy 18 howitzers from France, both sides' defence ministers announced Monday, as the Baltic country bolsters its arsenal due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Lithuania, a European Union and NATO member, decided to inject an additional 300 million euros ($312 million) into its 2022 defence budget as the Ukraine war ramped up security fears.
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 Moscow (AFP) June 14, 2022 
Russia on Tuesday said it was blacklisting 49 UK citizens, including defence officials and prominent reporters and editors from the BBC, The Financial Times and The Guardian.
London has been one of the most vocal supporters of Kyiv after President Vladimir Putin sent troops to Ukraine on February 24.
"The British journalists on the list are involved in the deliberate dissemination of fal ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) May 18, 2022 
Scientists have demonstrated a new material that conducts heat 150% more efficiently than conventional materials used in advanced chip technologies. The device - an ultrathin silicon nanowire - could enable smaller, faster microelectronics with a heat-transfer-efficiency that surpasses current technologies.
Electronic devices powered by microchips that efficiently dissipate heat would in t ... more |
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 Najaf, Iraq (AFP) June 15, 2022 
A noisy backhoe digs up earth to uncover yet another mass grave in Iraq, human remains are exhumed and the forensics experts get to work on their grim task.
A skull is freed from a layer of clay, a tibia is placed in a body bag - all bound for a laboratory to be genetically checked against blood samples from relatives of the disappeared.
The site near the central shrine city of Najaf i ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) June 14, 2022 
Iran on Tuesday said it still believes that negotiations can succeed to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, despite a recent rebuke from the UN nuclear watchdog.
Tehran last week condemned as "unconstructive" a move by the International Atomic Energy Agency to censure the country for failure to cooperate over its nuclear programme.
It also disconnected some of its cameras at ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) June 10, 2022 
Russia and China on Friday unveiled the first road bridge between the two countries as Moscow pivots to Asia amid its confrontation with the West over Ukraine.
The kilometre-long bridge over the Amur River links the far eastern Russian city of Blagoveshchensk with Heihe in northern China.
The construction of the bridge was completed two years ago but its inauguration was postponed due to ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) June 14, 2022 
Raging floods, devastating fires, powerful thunderstorms and a dangerous heat wave affecting a third of the population: the United States was being walloped Tuesday by climate-related catastrophes.
A series of slow motion disasters is gripping the country as it enters summer, with warnings of misery for months to come in some areas.
Around 120 million people were under some sort of advis ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 10, 2022 
Taikonauts of the Shenzhou XIV crew will carry out 24 in-orbit medical experiments during their six-month stay in China's space station, according to the China Manned Space Agency on Thursday.
These space medical experiments are mainly designed to study how the weightless environment and spaceflights affect taikonauts, said Li Yinghui, deputy chief designer of China's manned space program ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) June 14, 2022 
Bloomberg News said Tuesday it was "encouraged" to learn that Chinese authorities had apparently released its employee Haze Fan on bail, more than a year after she was detained on suspected national security violations.
A Chinese member of staff at the US news outlet's bureau in Beijing, Fan was detained in December 2020, a few months after Australian TV anchor Cheng Lei was detained on simi ... more |
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 The Hague (AFP) June 10, 2022 
The world's chemical weapons watchdog said Friday it is keeping a close eye on Ukraine since Russia's invasion to monitor "threats of use of toxic chemicals as weapons".
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons chief Fernando Arias met Ukraine's parliamentary chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk to discuss "the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention," the Hague-based organisatio ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Jun 14, 2022 
The Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate has awarded a contract, the largest award of its kind, to BlueHalo to build a directed energy modeling and simulation virtual range.
The 10-year, $80 million effort will create, conduct and support simulated wargames for the Department of Defense and build a modeling and simulation virtual range dedicated to directed energy weap ... more |
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