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  Washington (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 The US Navy's newest aircraft carrier embarked on its maiden deployment Tuesday, a milestone for a ship that has suffered problems with some of the advanced technologies it carries. The USS Gerald R. Ford - which cost more than $13 billion - will work with countries including Canada, France and Germany during a deployment that will include training on air defense, anti-submarine warfare and amphibious operations. A live video on a US Navy Facebook page showed tugboats moving the gray-painted s ... read more |
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Russia space agency seeking to extend ISS participation past 2024: officialWashington (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 Russia's space agency is discussing with Moscow a continuation of its participation in the International Space Station past 2024, a Roscosmos official said Monday. ... more  
South Korea, US fire missiles in response to North Korea testSeoul (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 The South Korean and US militaries fired a volley of missiles into the sea in response to North Korea firing a ballistic missile over Japan, Seoul said Wednesday. ... more  
Zelensky claims gains in south Ukraine, 'dozens' of villages retakenKyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said his forces were making "rapid and powerful" gains in southern Ukraine and that they had retaken "dozens" of villages from Russia this week. ... more  
Study eyes US cooperation with Pakistan amid China riseWashington (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 The United States needs to keep engaging Pakistan despite lingering distrust over Afghanistan, with investment and climate cooperation key to reducing the South Asian nation's growing reliance on China, a study group recommended Tuesday. ... more |
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White House consulting allies on 'robust' responses to NKorea launchWashington (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 The White House has announced that the US national security advisor spoke separately with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts about North Korea's missile launch over Japan on Tuesday. ... more 
Iran says nuclear deal still possibleTehran (AFP) Oct 3, 2022 It is still possible to revive Iran's nuclear deal with world powers, the foreign ministry said Monday, despite long-stalled talks over the 2015 accord. ... more 
North Korea fires ballistic missile over JapanSeoul (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years Tuesday, prompting Tokyo to activate its missile alert system and issue a rare warning for people to take shelter. ... more 
Fire power: North Korea's banned weapons programmesSeoul (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 Here is a timeline of North Korea's banned nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes: ... more |
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Japan, US hold joint drill after N. Korea missileTokyo (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 Japanese and US military planes carried out a joint drill Tuesday in response to a North Korean ballistic missile launch, Japanese officials said. ... more  
Taiwan launches first English TV channel as China pressure growsTaipei (AFP) Oct 3, 2022 Taiwan launched its first English-language TV channel on Monday in a bid to boost its international outreach against an intensified pressure campaign by Beijing. ... more  
Eyeing China, India unveils high-altitude helicoptersJodhpur, India (AFP) Oct 3, 2022 India unveiled on Monday its first batch of locally-made attack helicopters, designed primarily for use in high-altitude areas like the Himalayas where its troops clashed with China in 2020. ... more 
Mexico considers new military-run commercial airlineMexico City (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 Mexico is considering launching a new commercial airline run by the military whose fleet would include a presidential jet that has failed to find a buyer, the government said Tuesday. ... more |
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One killed, two missing in Bulgaria arms factory blastSofia (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 An explosion on Tuesday at Bulgaria's oldest arms factory killed one man and two women are feared dead in the central town of Kazanlak, officials said. ... more 
Colombia and ELN guerrillas announce new peace talksCaracas (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 Colombia's government and a delegation from the National Liberation Army (ELN) leftist guerrillas announced on Tuesday they would next month restart peace talks suspended since 2019. ... more  
Solomons says it will not 'choose sides' between US, ChinaWellington (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 Solomon Islands said Tuesday it had objected to the first draft of a US-Pacific partnership declaration because it was "not comfortable" with some indirect references to China. ... more 
Xi decade reshapes China's military, and the regionSydney (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 During Xi Jinping's decade-long rule, China has built the world's largest navy, revamped the globe's biggest standing army, and amassed a nuclear and ballistic arsenal to trouble any foe. ... more 
China since the founding of the Communist PartyBeijing (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 Here are the key dates in China since the founding of the Communist Party (CCP) which has grown into one of the world's most powerful political organisations: ... 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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 Tucson 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 Missile (HACM) for the U.S. Air Force (USAF). HACM is a first-of-its-kind weapon developed in conjunction with the Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment (SCIFiRE), a U.S. and Australia p ... more |
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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 ro ... more |
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 Herndon VA (SPX) Sep 29, 2022 
HawkEye 360 Inc., the world's leading commercial provider of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, reports it has been awarded a contract from the NRO's Commercial Systems Program Office (CSPO). The contract will assess, mature, integrate, and operationalize commercial RF intelligence into the NRO's integrated overhead architecture to support warfighters, the intelligence communit ... 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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 Sofia (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 
An explosion on Tuesday at Bulgaria's oldest arms factory killed one man and two women are feared dead in the central town of Kazanlak, officials said.
"The body of one of the three workers in the workshop, a 55-year-old man, was thrown out by the blast, he was dead," Plovdiv appeals prosecutor Todor Deyanov said outside Arsenal Kazanlak arms and munitions factory.
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 29, 2022 
US President Joe Biden has struggled in domestic polls since last year but his foreign policy is earning higher marks in much of Europe as he leads efforts against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
A 14-nation survey released Thursday by the German Marshall Fund of the United States said approval of Biden's foreign policy was higher than in the US in all countries surveyed except Italy and Turke ... 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) Oct 1, 2022 
Scuffles broke out between protesters and security forces injuring dozens as thousands gathered Saturday in Iraqi cities to mark three years since nationwide demonstrations erupted against endemic corruption.
The latest protests come as Iraq has been mired in political paralysis since elections in October last year that have failed to bring in a new president, prime minister or government. ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 
Here is a timeline of North Korea's banned nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes:
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North Korea's nuclear ambitions date back to the end of the Korean War in a stalemate in 1953.
In the 1960s, Pyongyang receives nuclear technology and hardware from the Soviet Union - a key Cold War ally - to create a nuclear energy programme.
By the 1980s, its scienti ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 30, 2022 
Markets in Asia and Europe were mixed Friday after another tough day on US trading floors, with inflation continuing to soar and central bankers getting increasingly hawkish in their attempts to bring prices under control.
Sterling, however, managed to extend gains after clawing back more of the huge losses suffered at the start of the week owing to a tax-cutting mini-budget that analysts wa ... more |
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 Ponce, Puerto Rico (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 
President Joe Biden toured hurricane-devastated areas of Puerto Rico on Monday, promising the sometimes overlooked US territory that this time, "America's with you."
The president and First Lady Jill Biden - who on Wednesday will also visit the devastation caused by Hurricane Ian in Florida where dozens have died - headed to Ponce, on the south coast of Puerto Rico, pounded by Hurricane Fi ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 05, 2022 
China has recently started recruiting the country's fourth generation of astronauts, and the search has opened to people in Hong Kong and Macao for the first time, the China Manned Space Agency said.
The agency said in a news release on Sunday afternoon experts will pick 12 to 14 candidates for the new generation. Among them, seven to eight will be spacecraft pilots, three to four will be ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Oct 4, 2022  Here are the key dates in China since the founding of the Communist Party (CCP) which has grown into one of the world's most powerful political organisations:
- July 1921: Founded in secret -
In the summer of 1921, Mao Zedong and a clutch of Marxist-Leninist thinkers in Shanghai covertly establish the party and start to set up labour unions in China's cities.
The CCP in 1924 joins wi ... 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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