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Putin 'in a corner' with options narrowing Paris (AFP) Oct 8, 2022 US President Joe Biden admitted this week that American diplomats still did not know how Russian President Vladimir Putin could bring an end to his faltering war in Ukraine and save face. Western analysts see no good options. The question of Putin's "off-ramp" - or decisions that allow him to end the fighting without admitting defeat - has exercised Western policymakers and foreign policy experts since the very start of the war in February. "Where does he find a way out?" Biden asked on Thursd ... read more |
France creates 100-mn-euro fund for Ukraine to buy arms Prague (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 France has created a fund, initially worth 100 million euros ($98 million), for Ukraine to directly buy weapons and other materiel it needs in its war against invading Russia, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday. ... more Washington (AFP) Oct 8, 2022 The United States will soon be unable to provide Ukraine with certain types of ammunition that are essential to Kyiv's battle against Russia's invasion, as supplies are being used up faster than they can be replaced. ... more Aboard Air Force One (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 The United States sees no sign of Russian preparations to use a nuclear weapon in the near future, the White House said Friday after President Joe Biden warned that the world risks "Armageddon." ... more Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin should face an "international tribunal", the head of Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties said Friday after the group was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. ... more |
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Missile launches legitimate defence against US: North Korea Seoul (AFP) Oct 8, 2022 North Korea on Saturday defended its recent flurry of missile tests as a legitimate counter to US military threats. ... more Washington (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday designed to protect the privacy of personal data transfers between the EU and the United States and address European concerns about US intelligence collection activities. ... more Montreal (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 UN aviation agency members on Friday set the year 2050 as their goal for achieving net-zero carbon emissions for air travel - an industry often criticized for its outsized role in climate change. ... more Baghdad (AFP) Oct 8, 2022 A year since Iraq's last elections, it remains without not only a new government but a budget too, obstructing much-needed reforms and infrastructure projects in the oil-rich but war-ravaged country. ... more |
One dead, four wounded in Iraqi Kurdistan bombing Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 One person was killed and four others, two women and two children, were injured when a bomb exploded Friday in the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, counter-terrorism forces said. ... more Seoul (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 North Korea fired two ballistic missiles Thursday and claimed its recent blitz of sanctions-busting tests were necessary countermeasures against joint military drills by the United States and South Korea. ... more New York (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 US President Joe Biden said Thursday the world risks nuclear "Armageddon" for the first time since the Cold War and that he is trying to find Russian President Vladimir Putin's "off-ramp" in the Ukraine conflict. ... more Moscow (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 A growing list of failings and defeats in Ukraine have spawned angry outbursts from Russia's elite, who still support the "military operation" but have gone as far as to suggest army chiefs should face the firing squad. ... more |
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Bialiatski: veteran rights defender in authoritarian Belarus Moscow (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 Ales Bialiatski, the head of Belarus rights group Viasna who was jailed last year, won the Nobel Peace Prize in the wake of historic demonstrations and a severe crackdown in his ex-Soviet country. ... more Sydney (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said Friday he has assured Australia that his nation will not allow a Chinese military presence in its territory. ... more San Antonio, Philippines (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 US and Philippine marines stormed a beach near a disputed rocky outcrop in the South China Sea on Friday as part of joint military drills involving more than 3,500 troops. ... more Beijing (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 President Xi Jinping has embarked on a "final round of purges" ahead of a major Chinese Communist Party congress, wielding his long-running anti-corruption campaign to cement his grasp on power, analysts say. ... more Beijing (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 When Xi Jinping took power in 2012, some observers predicted he would be the most liberal Communist Party leader in China's history, based on his low-key profile, family backstory and perhaps a degree of misguided hope. ... more |
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Lockheed Martin's next gen interceptor achieves communications testing milestone 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 |
Missile launches legitimate defence against US: North Korea Seoul (AFP) Oct 8, 2022 North Korea on Saturday defended its recent flurry of missile tests as a legitimate counter to US military threats. The reclusive communist country has conducted six sanctions-busting launches in less than two weeks, the latest coming Thursday with the firing of a pair of ballistic missiles. On Tuesday, it fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan, prompting an alert for p ... more |
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NASA's upgraded Mobile Mission Control Center to analyze Advanced Air Mobility flight tests Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 NASA recently unveiled a series of upgrades to its Mobile Operations Facility (MOF), a specially outfitted mission control center on wheels housed at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. NASA's Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign will use the MOF to test systems required to integrate air taxis, cargo delivery, and other AAM concepts into the National Airspace ... more |
Viasat to sell its Link 16 Tactical Data Links business to L3Harris Technologies Carlsbad CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global leader in satellite communications, reports it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Link 16 Tactical Data Links (TDL) business to L3Harris Technologies for $1.96 billion, subject to customary transaction adjustments in accordance with the agreement. The sale is expected to result in cash proceeds to Viasat of approximately $1.8 billion net afte ... more |
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Homemade 'DIY' weapons boost Ukraine war arsenal Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 In a metal workshop in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih in southern Ukraine, a homemade anti-drone system waits to be mounted on a military pick-up truck. The contraption - a heavy machine gun welded to steel tubes - is one of several do-it-yourself weapons that are proving to be valuable additions to the Ukraine war effort. "We have the skills and the equipment, and we don't lack ide ... more |
US ammunition supplies dwindle as Ukraine war drains stockpiles Washington (AFP) Oct 8, 2022 The United States will soon be unable to provide Ukraine with certain types of ammunition that are essential to Kyiv's battle against Russia's invasion, as supplies are being used up faster than they can be replaced. Washington has become by far the largest supplier of arms to Ukraine since Russia launched the invasion on February 24, with more than $16.8 billion in military assistance provi ... more |
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'Inevitable': Views on US bases shift in Japan's Okinawa Ginowan, Japan (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 For decades, residents of Japan's Okinawa have strongly opposed the US military bases that dot the region but a subtle shift is under way, driven by Chinese sabre-rattling and economic challenges. The bases are often seen as a disproportionate burden for Japan's sub-tropical southernmost region. Okinawa comprises 0.6 percent of the Japanese archipelago's territory but contains 70 percent ... more |
Physicists generate new nanoscale spin waves 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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Political paralysis in Iraq hampers economic growth Baghdad (AFP) Oct 8, 2022 A year since Iraq's last elections, it remains without not only a new government but a budget too, obstructing much-needed reforms and infrastructure projects in the oil-rich but war-ravaged country. Iraq has raked in huge revenues from oil exports this year, but the profits are locked up in the central bank's coffers, which have amassed a colossal $87 billion in foreign exchange reserves. ... more |
Fire power: North Korea's banned weapons programmes Seoul (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 Here is a timeline of North Korea's banned nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes: - Beginnings - 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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Under-fire UK PM Truss fails to calm markets with growth pledge Birmingham, United Kingdom (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 Prime Minister Liz Truss vowed to steer the UK "through the tempest" as she closed her party's tumultuous annual conference on Wednesday, making an unapologetic pitch for economic "growth, growth, growth". Since succeeding Boris Johnson, Truss has alienated voters, financial markets and many in the ruling Conservative party with a crash programme of debt-fuelled tax cuts to boost Britain's s ... more |
NASA study finds climate extremes affect landslides in surprising ways Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 06, 2022 Climate change is driving more volatile precipitation patterns around the world - very dry stretches punctuated by storms that drop large amounts of rain or snow in a short amount of time. While wetter and drier spells may have certain effects that are easy to predict, such as on water levels in lakes and rivers, a recent study focused on California reveals that they can affect slow-moving lands ... more |
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Tiangong space station marks key step in assembly Beijing (XNA) Oct 06, 2022 The Wentian lab module of China's Tiangong space station has been repositioned to dock with a radial port on the station's Tianhe core module on Friday afternoon, which marked a key step in Tiangong's in-orbit assembly, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The agency said in a news release that during the hour-long operation that finished at 12:44 pm, Wentian was moved from the axia ... more |
'Malign influence': China's cultural institutes under growing scrutiny Paris (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 Accused of peddling propaganda and even spying, Chinese cultural institutes are facing increasing resistance around the world, forcing some to close down and Beijing to make changes to their management. China has set up hundreds of Confucius Institutes - named after the ancient Chinese philosopher - in more than 150 countries in less than two decades, according to the body that oversees th ... more |
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US strike kills two senior IS officials in Syria: CENTCOM Washington (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 A US airstrike killed two senior Islamic State jihadist group officials in Syria on Thursday, the military's Central Command (CENTCOM) said. "US forces conducted a successful airstrike in northern Syria, killing both Abu-Hashum al-Umawi, a deputy Wali of Syria, and another senior ISIS official associated with him," CENTCOM said in a statement, using an acronym for IS. "No US forces were ... more |
Lockheed Martin delivers its highest powered laser to date to US Department Of Defense 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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