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  Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 Ukraine has received the first Iris-T defence system from Germany, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has said. "IRIS-Ts from (Germany) are already here. (American) NASAMS are coming. This is only the beginning. And we need more," Reznikov tweeted late on Tuesday. "There is a moral imperative to protect the sky over (Ukraine) in order to save our people." Germany had promised delivery of the first Iris-T missile shield "in the coming days" after Russia unleashed deadly attacks across Uk ... read more |
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China celebrates President Xi in massive exhibitionBeijing (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 Intercontinental missiles, disinfection robots and a piece of the Moon - China's Communist Party on Wednesday flaunted the fruits of its decade under President Xi Jinping ahead of a key meeting expected to extend his rule. ... more  
Cold Siberian air would help Putin this winterParis (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 Across Europe, governments are scrambling to prevent energy rationing and blackouts this winter. Whether they succeed will depend in part on something they have no control over: the weather. ... more  
Arms for Ukraine: US pulls ahead, Europe slowsParis (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 Dozens of countries have supplied military support to Ukraine since Russia invaded it on February 24, either in the form of weapons, financial aid for arms purchases or military training. ... more  
France to step up military deployments in eastern EuropeParis (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 France will deploy more troops and equipment to Romania in the coming weeks and step up its presence elsewhere in eastern Europe as war grinds on in Ukraine, Defence Minister Sebastian Lecornu said Tuesday. ... more |
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Russia's Ukraine strikes 'sign of weakness': NATO chiefBrussels (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said Russia was striking Ukraine's infrastructure to make up for battlefield losses by its troops and vowed allies would "step up and sustain" support for Kyiv. ... more  
UK spy chief warns China's technology is 'urgent problem'London (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 China's growing technological dominance "is an increasingly urgent problem" for Western countries, who must act to defend their values and influence, the director of Britain's GCHQ spy agency warned Tuesday. ... more 
The censor cannot hold: the pressure of controlling China's internetSan Jose, United States (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 As a teenager in rural China, Zeng Jiajun used his internet know-how to watch a banned documentary on the bloody military crackdown in Tiananmen Square. ... more  
Elon Musk 'doesn't know much' about Taiwan, says premierTaipei (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 Taiwan's premier on Tuesday said Elon Musk "doesn't know much" about the self-ruled island, after the billionaire suggested it should become part of China. ... more |
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Eastern NATO allies call Russia's Ukraine strikes 'war crimes'Warsaw (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 Eleven members of NATO's eastern flank on Tuesday called Russia's recent bombing blitz across Ukraine a "war crime", adding that any nuclear threats were "unacceptable". ... more 
Canadian sappers to help train Ukraine forces in PolandWarsaw (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 Canada on Tuesday said it would soon send combat engineers to NATO ally Poland to help train Ukrainian forces who have been battling a Russian invasion for more than seven months. ... more 
Second Israeli soldier shot dead within days as violence surgesNablus, Palestinian Territories (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 An Israeli soldier was shot dead Tuesday near a settlement in the occupied West Bank in an attack claimed by Palestinian militants, the second deadly assault on armed forces within days. ... more  
Russia targeting civilians 'amounts to a war crime': EUBrussels (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. ... more |
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US places Myanmar arms dealers on sanctions blacklistWashington (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 The US Treasury placed a group of Myanmar arms dealers and their company Dynasty International on its sanctions blacklist Thursday for their support of the "oppressive" military government. ... more  
CAPSTONE reports 'Initial Recovery Successful' for lunar orbiterWashington DC (SPX) Oct 10, 2022 Over the past couple of weeks, the CAPSTONE mission team has been working to resolve an anomaly that occurred early last month and resulted in the spacecraft losing full 3-axis attitude control and ... more  
Earth Blox announces no-code SaaS offering for data analysts at Google's Geo for Good Summit 2022Mountain View CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 Earth Blox, the no-code Earth observation platform for data analysts, has announced a low-touch SaaS offering at Google's Geo for Good Summit in Mountain View, California and invited delegates to re ... more 
Djibouti says seven soldiers killed in rebel attackDjibouti (AFP) Oct 8, 2022 Djibouti said seven of its soldiers were killed in an attack by a rebel group on a military barracks in the early hours of Friday, and launched a search to find six still missing. ... more  
From 'football' to 'biscuits': how Biden would launch nukesWashington (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. ... more |
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 Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 
Ukraine has received the first Iris-T defence system from Germany, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has said.
"IRIS-Ts from (Germany) are already here. (American) NASAMS are coming. This is only the beginning. And we need more," Reznikov tweeted late on Tuesday. "There is a moral imperative to protect the sky over (Ukraine) in order to save our people."
Germany had promised de ... 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.
"Our next-generation GMLRS provides versatil ... more |
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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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 Paris (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 
Dozens of countries have supplied military support to Ukraine since Russia invaded it on February 24, either in the form of weapons, financial aid for arms purchases or military training.
The United States is by far the biggest supplier of weapons to Ukraine, followed by the United Kingdom, Poland and Germany.
The Germany-based Kiel Institute for the World Economy, which tracks military, ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said Russia was striking Ukraine's infrastructure to make up for battlefield losses by its troops and vowed allies would "step up and sustain" support for Kyiv.
"I think what we saw yesterday (Monday) is actually a sign of weakness, because the reality is that they are not able to make progress on the battlefield. Russia is actually losing on the battle ... 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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 Beijing (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its growth forecasts for China for this year and 2023 as strict Covid curbs and a crisis in the property sector fuel a slowdown in the world's number two economy.
China's gross domestic product is expected to expand 3.2 percent this year, the IMF said in its quarterly global forecast, down 0.1 percentage point from its previous forecast in July. ... 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 12, 2022 
Intercontinental missiles, disinfection robots and a piece of the Moon - China's Communist Party on Wednesday flaunted the fruits of its decade under President Xi Jinping ahead of a key meeting expected to extend his rule.
Thousands of people thronged an exhibition in Beijing celebrating Xi's "New Era" just days before a Party Congress at which the country's political elite are expected to ... more |
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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.
"The European Union condemns in the strongest possible terms t ... more |
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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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