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  Ankara (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 A Turkish delegation will visit Washington next week to follow up on US President Joe Biden's pledge to deliver F16 fighter jets for Turkey's ageing air force, Ankara said Tuesday. Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said the team would arrive in Washington on Monday on the invitation of unnamed US officials. But he stressed that Ankara remained firmly opposed to conditions on the sale imposed by leading members of Congress who worry about Turkey's tense relations with Greece. "We cannot ac ... read more |
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Philippines cancels Russia helicopter deal over US sanctionsManila (AFP) Aug 10, 2022 The Philippines has scrapped an order for 16 Russian military helicopters, an official confirmed Wednesday, following reports former president Rodrigo Duterte decided to cancel it due to US sanctions on Moscow. ... more  
Russian strikes near Ukraine nuclear plant kill 14Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Aug 10, 2022 Ukraine on Wednesday accused Russia of carrying out rocket strikes that killed 14 civilians in areas near a nuclear power plant, as the G7 warned that Russian control of the facility "endangers the region". ... more  
Biden signs major semiconductors investment bill to compete against ChinaWashington (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday a multibillion dollar bill boosting domestic semiconductor and other high-tech manufacturing sectors that US leaders fear risk being dominated by rival China. ... more  
Iran scoffs at claims Russia-launched satellite for 'spying'Tehran (AFP) Aug 10, 2022 Iran dismissed as "childish" Wednesday claims by the United States that an Iranian satellite launched by Russia is intended for spying. ... more |
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Benchmark to keep popular orbits safer with collision avoidance kitBurlington VT (SPX) Aug 10, 2022 With the most popular, revenue-generating orbits increasingly congested, Benchmark Space Systems has unveiled a breakthrough Collision Avoidance (ColA) Kit, featuring its heritage propulsion technol ... more  
Northrop Grumman invests in new solid rocket motor manufacturing facilities in Magna, UtahMagna UT (SPX) Aug 11, 2022 Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is expanding its solid rocket motor manufacturing facilities with the groundbreaking of new state-of-the art facilities to support nearly every phase of soli ... more 
Antaris close seed funding round to accelerate development of software solutions for spaceLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 11, 2022 Antaris, the software platform provider for space, announced the company has closed a $4.2 million seed round of funding led by Acequia Capital and Possible Ventures. The round also includes investm ... more  
NanoAvionics extends its satellite bus range enabling advanced space missionsLogan UT (SPX) Aug 11, 2022 Global mission integrator NanoAvionics has added two microsatellite buses, the MP42H and the MP42D, to its product line based on its flagship MP42 bus. Capable to host customer payloads of up to 145 ... more |
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HKATG tooling up for satellite mass productionHong Kong (SPX) Aug 11, 2022 Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group Limited (01725. HK), which is committed to promoting Hong Kong's industrialization and supporting Hong Kong's becoming an international innovation and technology ... more 
Scientists have created optical fibers with unusual propertiesYekaterinburg, Russia (SPX) Aug 09, 2022 Researches of the Science Lab of Fiber Technology and Photonics at the Ural Federal University (UrFU) have developed and produced infrared optical fibers with unique properties. The fibers are nonto ... more  
Taiwan holds military drill after China repeats threatsTaipei (AFP) Aug 11, 2022 Taiwan's army held another live-fire drill Thursday after Beijing ended its largest-ever military exercises around the island and repeated threats to bring the self-ruled democracy under its control. ... more  
Shiite Muslims throng Iraqi shrine city to mark AshuraKarbala, Iraq (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims on Tuesday marked the festival of Ashura in Iraq's holy city of Karbala, the burial place of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed. ... more |
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Escalating evidence of crimes in Myanmar: UN investigatorsGeneva (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 UN investigators said Tuesday there was mounting evidence of crimes being committed in Myanmar, including since a military coup last year. ... more  
US says four jihadists killed in Somalia air strikesWashington (AFP) Aug 10, 2022 The US military said Wednesday it carried out three air strikes north of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, killing four fighters from the Al-Shabaab Islamist group. ... more 
42 Mali soldiers killed in suspected jihadist attacksBamako (AFP) Aug 11, 2022 Forty-two Malian soldiers died in a sophisticated weekend attack by suspected jihadists using drones and artillery, authorities said Wednesday, the latest violent incident to rock the troubled Sahel country. ... more  
Biden signs ratification of Finland, Sweden NATO bidsWashington (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed US ratification of bids by Finland and Sweden to enter NATO, taking expansion of the Western alliance in response to Russia's Ukraine invasion one step closer. ... more
Russia launches Iranian satellite amid Ukraine war concernsAlmaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Aug 10, 2022 An Iranian satellite launched by Russia blasted off from Kazakhstan Tuesday and reached orbit amid controversy that Moscow might use it to boost its surveillance of military targets in Ukraine. ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 09, 2022 
Lockheed Martin recently validated prototype communications radio technology for the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) during a recent test milestone.
The NGI's mission is to protect the U.S. homeland from increasing and evolving intercontinental ballistic missile threats. Critically, the interceptor and its components must be able to receive and share data from the ground and throughout t ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 26, 2022 
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) successfully completed the third captive flight test of its prototype missile development series. The internally funded air-launched missile demonstrates capabilities relevant for multiple services, missions and platforms.
Completed at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, the internally funded test successfully validated the capabil ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 2, 2022 
Notorious Al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by two missiles fired at his Kabul home - but pictures showed no sign of an explosion, and US officials say no one else was harmed.
That points to the use again by the United States of the macabre Hellfire R9X, a warhead-less missile believed equipped with six razor-like blades extending from the fuselage that slices through its target bu ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) July 26, 2022 
French and British satellite operators Eutelsat and OneWeb announced Tuesday plans to merge and create a "global champion" in broadband internet, rivalling US giants such as Elon Musk's Starlink.
Eutelsat and OneWeb said in a joint statement that they have signed a memorandum of understanding to join forces to become "a leading global player in connectivity... in an all-share transaction." ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 15, 2022 
Seeking to revolutionize how the Department of Defense (DoD) objectively measures individual warfighter readiness, DARPA's newest biotechnology funding opportunity aims to develop a hand-held prediction tool for warfighter physiological states based on molecular biomarkers. The device developed under the Smart Non-invasive Assays of Physiology (SNAP) program would be readily configurable to dive ... more |
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 Warsaw (AFP) July 27, 2022 
Poland signed Wednesday contracts to purchase South Korean weapons including tanks, artillery and fighter jets as the NATO member bordering Russia and Ukraine boosts its defences.
The amount of the contracts, signed at a ceremony in the Polish capital with representatives of Korea Aerospace Industries and Hyundai, was not provided.
"We're drawing lessons from what's happening in Ukraine, ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed US ratification of bids by Finland and Sweden to enter NATO, taking expansion of the Western alliance in response to Russia's Ukraine invasion one step closer.
Biden said the two northern European countries would become "strong, reliable highly capable new allies" by making the "sacred commitment" to mutual defense in the US-led transatlantic alliance. ... more |
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 Tokushima, Japan (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 
Raman spectroscopy, an optical microscopy technique, is a non-destructive chemical analysis technique that provides rich molecular fingerprint information about chemical structure, phase, crystallinity, and molecular interactions. The technique relies on the interaction of light with chemical bonds within a material.
However, since light is a wave, optical microscopes are unable to resolve ... more |
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 Karbala, Iraq (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 
Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims on Tuesday marked the festival of Ashura in Iraq's holy city of Karbala, the burial place of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed.
The emotional event commemorates the 7th century battlefield martyrdom of Hussein, whom Shiites view as the rightful successor to the Prophet Mohammed, the issue at the heart of a schism with Sunni Islam.
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 Almaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Aug 9, 2022  An Iranian satellite launched by Russia blasted off from Kazakhstan early Tuesday and went into orbit amid controversy that Moscow might use it to improve its surveillance of military targets in Ukraine. A live feed from Russian space agency Roscosmos showed the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the Khayyam satellite from the Russia-controlled Baikonur cosmodrome at the scheduled time of 0552 GMT. ... more |
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 Phnom Penh (AFP) Aug 4, 2022  Southeast Asian foreign ministers urged restraint Thursday as China launched massive military drills off Taiwan, warning the situation risked spiralling into "open conflicts".
A furious Beijing kicked off its biggest-ever exercises around Taiwan in response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit this week to the self-ruled island.
Ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast A ... more |
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 Tsukuba, Japan (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba find that soil decontamination efforts in Fukushima result in constant, high levels of suspended sediments and a rapid decline in radiocesium particles, and that rapid vegetation recovery reduces the duration of unsustainable turbidity effects
Tsukuba, Japan-The effects of increased sediment load in rivers during the recovery phase after a nuclear ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 08, 2022 
The small mechanical arm mounted with Wentian, the first lab module of China's space station, has successfully completed in-orbit tests, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
With the support of the ground team, the small mechanical arm has completed a series of in-orbit function and performance tests. All indexes performed well, achieving expected results, said the CMSA.
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 10, 2022 
A Chinese court rejected an appeal in a landmark sexual harassment case on Wednesday, dealing a blow to the country's fledgling #MeToo movement.
Zhou Xiaoxuan stepped forward in 2018 to accuse popular state TV host Zhu Jun of forcibly kissing and groping her during her 2014 internship at the broadcaster.
Her case inspired many others to share their experiences of sexual assault publicly ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 
UN investigators said Tuesday there was mounting evidence of crimes being committed in Myanmar, including since a military coup last year.
The United Nations' Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) said it had gathered lots of evidence of violations as well as elements indicating the most serious international crimes.
"The Mechanism has collected a significant amount of i ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 21, 2022 
Dragonfire, the UK's Laser Directed Energy Programme (LDEW) led by MBDA, has successfully begun a series of trials to prove the accuracy and power of the novel laser weapon.
The first of these trials recently conducted by the Dragonfire consortium - a joint industry and UK MOD collaboration between MBDA, Leonardo, QinetiQ and Dstl - at low power proved the system can successfully track air ... more |
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