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  Washington (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 Doomsday could start with a football - the so-called "nuclear football" as the attache case carried wherever the US president goes is popularly known. The rather awkwardly stuffed black bag doesn't look like much, the only clue to its importance being that it never leaves the hand of a uniformed military aide. But inside are top secret codes and plans enabling a president to authorize nuclear strikes - and pick from a sort of menu of targets - anywhere in the world. In the White House, th ... read more |
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Biden promises Zelensky advanced air defense systemsWashington (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 US President Joe Biden on Monday promised to provide advanced air defense systems to Ukraine after Russian missiles rained down on the capital Kyiv and other cities, the White House said in a statement. ... more 
Germany says air defence shield to reach Ukraine 'in days'Berlin (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 Germany said Monday it was rushing long-promised air defence systems, capable of protecting an entire city, to Ukraine after Russia unleashed a barrage of missile strikes on the country. ... more 
N. Korea says recent tests were 'tactical nuclear' drills, overseen by KimSeoul (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 North Korea's recent missile tests involved "tactical nuclear" drills to simulate hitting the South, and were overseen by leader Kim Jong Un in response to US-led joint military exercises in the region, state media said Monday. ... more  
Mexico denies Russia space deal will aid spyingMexico City (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday denied that a space cooperation agreement signed with Russia last year would help Moscow spy on North America. ... more |
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CSO visits partners in JapanTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 11, 2022 Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. "Jay" Raymond traveled to Japan Oct. 2-6 to deepen the bilateral space partnership and explore areas for enhanced cooperation. Raymond attended meetings ... more 
Lockheed Martin delivers 700th THAAD interceptorDallas TX (SPX) Oct 11, 2022 Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) recently delivered the 700th Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). This production milestone comes at a time when g ... more 
North Korea's tactical nukes: Five things to knowSeoul (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 North Korea announced Monday that its recent spate of missile launches were "tactical nuclear" drills that simulated striking airports and military facilities across the South. ... more  
Russian, US troops in Syria share 'rare moment' of congenialityQahtaniyah, Syria (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 US and Russian troops exchanged friendly greetings and posed for pictures together over the weekend on a northeast Syria highway in a rare display of congeniality between the rival forces. ... more |
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'Horrible and cruel': Kyiv residents shocked after heavy Russian strikesKyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 The missiles that sowed death and destruction in the Ukrainian capital for the first time in almost four months came in frightening roars early Monday. ... more 
Lockheed Martin's next-gen rocket performs first Systems Qualification Flight TestDallas TX (SPX) Oct 11, 2022 Lockheed Martin has demonstrated its next-generation Extended-Range Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (ER GMLRS) in a test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The round was fired Thursday m ... more 
No 'indications' of Russian nuclear use despite Biden warning: W.HouseAboard 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 
Nobel-winning Ukraine NGO chief says Putin should face 'tribunal'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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Homemade 'DIY' weapons boost Ukraine war arsenalKryvyi 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. ... more  
Biden signs executive order on US-EU personal data privacyWashington (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  
Northrop Grumman's new navigation capability approved for US Navy deploymentCharlottesville VA (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 The U.S. Navy has approved Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE: NOC) new Electronic Chart Display and Information System (Navy ECDIS) for deployment to its fleet. The U.S. Navy's Operational ... more  
Deal reached for civil aviation to try for net-zero emissions by 2050Montreal (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  
Iraqi Kurdistan lawmakers delay polls and extend termArbil, Iraq (AFP) Oct 9, 2022 Parliament in Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdistan region voted Sunday to extend its term by a year, postponing polls against a backdrop of a wider national political paralysis. ... more |
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 Dallas TX (SPX) Oct 11, 2022 
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) recently delivered the 700th Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). This production milestone comes at a time when global demand for integrated air and missile defense systems continues to grow.
"The Missile Defense Agency, industry and the Lockheed Martin team who engineer and produce the THAAD interceptor h ... more |
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 Dallas TX (SPX) Oct 11, 2022 
Lockheed Martin has demonstrated its next-generation Extended-Range Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (ER GMLRS) in a test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The round was fired Thursday morning from the U.S. Army's HIMARS launcher and met all success criteria in a short-range test flight approximately 59 kilometers to the target area.
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 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 |
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 South Bend IN (SPX) Oct 07, 2022  SIMBA Chain announces it has been selected by SpaceWERX for a STTR Phase I in the amount of $250,000 to investigate how SIMBA's blockchain technology may enable In-space Service Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) capabilities being explored by the Department of the Air Force (DAF) and United States Space Force (USSF) through the Orbital Prime program. Orbit ... more |
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 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 |
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 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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 Qahtaniyah, Syria (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 
US and Russian troops exchanged friendly greetings and posed for pictures together over the weekend on a northeast Syria highway in a rare display of congeniality between the rival forces.
Both Washington and Moscow have troops on the ground in Syria backing opposing sides of the war that has ravaged the Middle Eastern country since 2011.
Russia's war in Ukraine since February has exacer ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 10, 2022 
Computer chips are packed with billions of microscopic transistors that enable powerful computation, but also generate a great deal of heat. A buildup of heat can slow a computer processor and make it less efficient and reliable. Engineers employ heat sinks to keep chips cool, sometimes along with fans or liquid cooling systems; however, these methods often require a lot of energy to operate. ... more |
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 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 |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 
Doomsday could start with a football - the so-called "nuclear football" as the attache case carried wherever the US president goes is popularly known.
The rather awkwardly stuffed black bag doesn't look like much, the only clue to its importance being that it never leaves the hand of a uniformed military aide.
But inside are top secret codes and plans enabling a president to authorize n ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 
US interest rate hikes are pushing global prices higher at a time of food crisis and war, presenting the world with "a perfect storm," the EU's top diplomat warned on Monday.
"Everybody's running to increase interest rates - these will bring us to a world recession," Josep Borrell predicted to EU ambassadors in an annual gathering.
A surging US dollar is making basic goods in other coun ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 07, 2022 
As a declaration of its firm commitment to innovation-led, progress-seeking sustainable development, technology multinational GMV has joined the United Nations Global Compact, a worldwide initiative. With this step, GMV takes up and assumes the legacy of one of its subsidiaries, which joined the Global Compact in 2014.
The Global Compact is the world's leading corporate sustainability init ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 11, 2022 
Propellant injection work on the Mengtian space lab, the second lab component of China's Tiangong space station, was conducted on Monday morning at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
The agency said in a news release that the lab module has undergone ground tests at the center and will undergo checks of its functions along with ... more |
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 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.
When he became leader a decade ago, Xi vowed to root out dishonest officials, both senior "tigers" and low-ranking "flies".
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 Brussels (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 
The EU believes Russia's missile attacks on civilians in Ukraine "amounts to a war crime," a spokesman for the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Monday.
"Indiscriminately targeting people in a cowardly, heinous hail of missiles on civilian targets is indeed a further escalation," the spokesman, Peter Stano, said.
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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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