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  Odessa, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 In Ukraine's port city of Odessa, residents have recently found themselves hiding not from the thunder of rocket attacks but from the whir of buzzing Iranian drones in the sky. The machines have been playing an important role since Russia invaded seven months ago - forming part of reconnaissance operations, missile firings or bomb drops. Awakened with a start on Saturday morning by a roar from the sky, Maryna Kondratieva ran to hide in the cellar with her two young children, fearing the worst. ... read more |
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Ukrainian geeks turned guerrillas make frontline dronesBakhmut, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 26, 2022 For young Ukrainian geeks, making drones - for reconnaissance or destruction - in a house basement near the Donbas frontline is "new generation" guerrilla warfare. ... more  
North Korea fires unidentified ballistic missile: Seoul's militarySeoul (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 North Korea fired an "unidentified ballistic missile", Seoul's military said Wednesday, just days after its last test and ahead of a visit to South Korea by US Vice President Kamala Harris. ... more  
SES, ESA and EC partner to deliver satellite quantum cryptographyLuxembourg (SPX) Sep 25, 2022 An SES-led consortium of 20 European companies, with the European Space Agency (ESA) and European Commission support, will design, develop, launch and operate the EAGLE-1 satellite-based end-to-end ... more  
US will operate 'undaunted, unafraid' in Taiwan Strait: HarrisTokyo (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 Washington will operate "undaunted and unafraid" throughout Asia, including the Taiwan Strait, US Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday as she addressed American troops in Japan. ... more |
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NOMARS No Manning Required Ship Program set to build and test first shipWashington DC (SPX) Sep 28, 2022 DARPA is moving into Phase 2 of the No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program, which seeks to build and demonstrate a revolutionary new medium unmanned surface vessel (MUSV) that can go to sea and p ... more  
DOD's largest telescope receives mirror recoat, preserves space domain awarenessKirtland AFB NM (SPX) Sep 28, 2022 The Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site's Advanced Electro-Optical System, or AEOS, the Department of Defense's largest telescope, measuring 3.6 meters or 11.9 feet, has received a face-l ... more  
Raytheon and Northrop Grumman to deliver hypersonic air-breathing missile to USSFTucson AZ (SPX) Sep 27, 2022 Raytheon Missiles and Defense, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, in partnership with Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), has been selected to develop the Hypersonic Attack Cruise M ... more 
Outpost completes successful flight tests of their autonomous paragliderParis, France (SPX) Sep 25, 2022 During a technical session at IAC, Michael Vergalla, CTO of Outpost, presented a paper on the findings of Outpost's two successful flight tests on a breakthrough technology of an autonomous paraglid ... more |
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UN says committed to Ukraine 'integrity' within 'recognized' bordersUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 27, 2022 The UN reaffirmed its commitment to Ukraine's "territorial integrity" on Tuesday, as pro-Moscow authorities in several parts of the war-torn nation claimed victory in annexation votes condemned internationally as a sham. ... more 
Cyber warfare rife in Ukraine, but impact stays in shadowsParis (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 Hackings, network sabotage and other cyber warfare campaigns are being intensely deployed by both sides as Russia's invasion of Ukraine grinds on, though the covert operations have not proved decisive on the battlefield - at least so far. ... more  
Vandenberg's final Delta 4 Heavy launchedVandenberg SFB CA (SPX) Sep 24, 2022 Team Vandenberg launched a National Reconnaissance Office mission (NROL-91) aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex-6 Saturday, Sept. 24, at 3:25 ... more  
ClearSpace secures a major UK contract to help clean up spaceLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 27, 2022 In October 2021, the UK Space Agency (UKSA) commissioned the ClearSpace UK-based subsidiary to perform a feasibility study for a mission to remove at least two UK-registered derelict objects from lo ... more |
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Zelensky says Ukraine will 'defend its people' as Kremlin claims vote victoryKyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 27, 2022 Ukraine will "defend" citizens in Moscow-held regions which authorities said voted overwhelmingly for a merger with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday. ... more  
Blinken defends Pakistan arms sales against Indian criticismWashington (AFP) Sept 27, 2022 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday defended military sales to Pakistan after withering criticism from growing US partner India, which considers itself the target of Islamabad's F-16 planes. ... more 
Iranian woman died of 'blow to the head': family in IraqSulaimaniyah, Irak (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini was visiting Tehran with her family when she encountered the notorious morality police and died after a "violent blow to the head", her cousin living in Iraq said. ... more 
With an eye on China, US to develop drones with IndiaWashington (AFP) Sept 22, 2022 The United States and India will co-develop drones, a senior Pentagon official said Thursday, as Washington seeks closer ties with Delhi as a way of countering China. ... more  
Soviet-era rocket launchers still serving on Ukraine frontlineDonetsk Region, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 22, 2022 For a handful of Ukrainian gunners camping under a clump of trees not far from the Russian lines, the day passes beside a BM-21 Grad rocket launcher waiting for firing orders. ... 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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 Tehran (AFP) Sept 22, 2022 
Iran unveiled a new medium-range ballistic missile on Thursday during a military parade commemorating the Iran-Iraq war, state television said.
"The liquid-fuelled Rezvan ballistic missile has an operational range of 1,400 kilometres (870 miles)," said the station, which aired images of the missile mounted on a military vehicle.
The Rezvan missile was presented in Tehran during an annual ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Sep 25, 2022 
During a technical session at IAC, Michael Vergalla, CTO of Outpost, presented a paper on the findings of Outpost's two successful flight tests on a breakthrough technology of an autonomous paraglider re-entry system to enable industry-leading payload Earth return capabilities from orbit.
The tests, conducted in April 2022, are a huge milestone for Outpost in creating a technology that wil ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2022 
Somewear Labs, the enabler of critical communications for the world's most important organizations, reports it has raised $13.7 million in a Series A funding round.
The round was led by a group of over a dozen current and former Fortune 500 CEOs and legendary investors, chaired by David Dorman (former CEO of AT&T and former Chairman of Motorola), and including Egon Durban (Co-CEO of Silver ... more |
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 Donetsk Region, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 22, 2022 
For a handful of Ukrainian gunners camping under a clump of trees not far from the Russian lines, the day passes beside a BM-21 Grad rocket launcher waiting for firing orders.
The Soviet-made contraption is the 1960s version of "Stalin's Organs", a fearsome World War II-era weapon that terrorised Nazi German soldiers, its 40 tubes able to launch 122 mm rockets that can hit targets up to 20 k ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) Sept 21, 2022 
North Korea on Wednesday denied it was providing arms to Russia, state media said, weeks after the United States said Moscow was turning to Pyongyang to replenish its stocks depleted by invading Ukraine.
"We have never exported weapons or ammunition to Russia before and we will not plan to export them," an official at the defence ministry's General Bureau of Equipment said in a statement car ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Sept 26, 2022  China and Russia face possible action by the UN's top rights body following historic draft resolutions against the two powerful permanent members of the Security Council.
The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva frequently investigates and tries to rein in abuses inside countries but has not taken on the two heavyweights directly until now.
A damning UN report warning of possible crimes aga ... more |
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 Halle, Germany (SPX) Sep 28, 2022 
Strong alternating magnetic fields can be used to generate a new type of spin wave that was previously just theoretically predicted. This was achieved for the first time by a team of physicists from (MLU). They report on their work in the scientific journal Nature Communications and provide the first microscopic images of these spin waves.
The basic idea of spintronics is to use a special ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Sept 26, 2022 
Iraq's parliament, at the centre of a months-long political paralysis, is to convene Wednesday for the first time since deadly unrest in August and a sit-in protest by supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr.
Parliament said in a brief statement on Monday that votes on the resignation of the assembly's speaker, Mohammed al-Halbussi, and the appointment of a first deputy speaker would top th ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 26, 2022 
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres renewed his call Monday for the global abolition of nuclear weapons as concerns grow over Russia's threat to use them in the Ukraine war.
"Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we can hear once again the rattling of nuclear sabers," Guterres told a special General Assembly session on nuclear disarmament.
"Let me be clear - the era of nuclear bl ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 26, 2022 
The pound hit a record low against the dollar Monday on surging fears about the UK economy after the government unveiled a huge tax-cutting budget.
The selloff came as most equity markets across Asia fell again owing to a growing expectation that central bank interest rate hikes to fight runaway inflation would lead to deep and painful recessions.
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 Montreal (AFP) Sept 26, 2022 
Canada deployed soldiers on Monday to help clean up widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Fiona, which left three people dead in the country's Atlantic provinces.
More than 260,000 people were still without electricity in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick on Monday morning.
Soldiers were clearing debris from roads and restoring transportation links, as television ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Sep 22, 2022 
The Shenzhou-XIV taikonauts, who are aboard the Tiangong space station, gave an off-Earth salute to all participants in China's 30-year manned space program on Wednesday.
In a celebratory video message released by the China Manned Space Agency, taikonauts Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe raised their right hands to their heads, expressing their appreciation for the country's accomplishmen ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 19, 2022 
The head of Hong Kong's journalist union was charged with obstructing police on Monday, 10 days before he was set to leave the city and begin an overseas fellowship.
Ronson Chan, chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), was arrested earlier this month over a dispute with two officers who asked to see his identification while he was covering a residents' meeting at a public h ... more |
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 Mexico City (AFP) Sept 23, 2022 
A truth commission investigating Mexico's so-called "Dirty War" of the 1960s-1980s said Friday there were indications that serious human rights violations were committed at a military base in the capital.
The announcement came after victims visited the army camp in Mexico City for the first time along with investigators probing decades-old alleged abuses against leftist movements.
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 Bothell WA (SPX) Sep 16, 2022 
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering OUSD (R&E) a new benchmark: a tactically-relevant electric 300 kW-class laser, the most powerful laser that Lockheed Martin has produced to date. This 300 kW-class laser is ready to integrate with the DOD demonstration efforts including the U.S. Army's Indirect Fires Protection Capa ... more |
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