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  Brussels (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 International backers of Ukraine vowed on Wednesday to deliver new air defences "as fast as we can", as Kyiv pressed them to bolster protection against Russia's missile blitz. A US-led group of some 50 countries held talks at NATO headquarters in Brussels with the focus on air defences after Russian President Vladimir Putin unleashed a barrage across Ukraine following a blast at a bridge to the annexed Crimea peninsula. Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said just three words when aske ... read more |
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Eutelsat strategy update on the proposed combination with OneWebLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 13, 2022 Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) has hosted a Strategic Update on the proposed combination with OneWeb, announced in July 2022. Eutelsat and key OneWeb shareholders signed a Memor ... more  
EU agreement on Ukraine military training missionBrussels (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 The EU has reached agreement on the contours of a big military mission to train 15,000 Ukrainian armed forces personnel in several member countries, diplomats said Wednesday. ... more 
UK to supply Ukraine with air defence missilesLondon (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 Britain on Thursday said it would supply Ukraine with air defence missiles to defend itself against Russian assaults and will for the first time provide rockets capable of shooting down cruise missiles. ... more  
North Korea says it has tested and deployed 'tactical nuke' cruise missilesSeoul (AFP) Oct 13, 2022 Kim Jong Un supervised the launch of two long-range cruise missiles, state media said Thursday, adding that the weapons had already been deployed to "tactical nuke" units of the North Korean army. ... more |
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Ukraine holds line with Western arms, but needs moreToretsk, Ukraine (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 First there was a teasing crackle of small arms fire then a burst of sharp bangs as Ukrainian assault infantry fired their US-made grenade launder at the Russian positions opposite. ... more 
Russia launches new Angolan satellite into orbitMoscow (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 Russia launched a new Angolan communications satellite on Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Roscosmos agency said, after Luanda's first satellite was lost in space. ... more  
German foreign minister urges more caution towards ChinaBerlin (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Wednesday called for more caution in trade with China, warning that Europe's biggest economy must learn from the breakdown of its relations with Russia. ... more 
Biden to prioritize China competition amid 'dangerous' RussiaWashington (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 President Joe Biden's administration said Wednesday it would prioritize winning over China, seeing it as the only global rival to the United States, even as it also works to constrain a "dangerous" Russia. ... more |
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China's Xi on course for historic third term at zero-Covid CongressBeijing (AFP) Oct 13, 2022 China's 20th Communist Party Congress, which begins on Sunday, is expected to deliver President Xi Jinping a historic third term in control of a country his zero-Covid policy has closed off from much of the rest of the world. ... more  
USAF Mobility Flex Procurement To release EVTOL Request For InformationWright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Oct 13, 2022 The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, or AFLCMC, Mobility and Training Directorate's Heavy Airlift Division, Mobility Flex Procurement, released a Request for Information, or RFI, Oct. 6, 2022 ... more  
Virgin Orbit, Spire Global sign multilaunch agreementLong Beach CA (SPX) Oct 13, 2022 Building on their shared record for successful collaboration in responsive space, Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR), a global provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, has entered a ... more  
China launches new environmental satelliteTaiyuan, China (XNA) Oct 13, 2022 China launched a new satellite for disaster reduction, emergency management, and environment monitoring from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province early Thursday. A L ... more |
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NASA awards contracts to assess near-space communications capabilitiesWashington DC (SPX) Oct 13, 2022 NASA has selected two companies - Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) USA of Denver and SpaceLink Corporation of McLean, Virginia - to develop capability studies to explore and demonstrate communica ... more 
New Iridium Certus Service Providers to Support U.S. Government CustomersMcLean VA (SPX) Oct 13, 2022 Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM) has announced that Iridium partners MetOcean Telematics, NAL Research, and Trace Systems are now Iridium Certus service providers for U.S. government custo ... more 
Electron Rocket arrives at Wallops for inaugural Rocket Lab mission from VirginiaWallops Island, VA (SPX) Oct 13, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) reports that the Electron rocket to be launched in the Company's first mission from U.S. soil has arrived at Launch Complex 2 in Virginia. The mission will ... more  
Malala visits women at flood camps in PakistanKarachi (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai met Wednesday with victims of Pakistan's devastating monsoon floods, in only the second visit to her home country since being shot by the Taliban a decade ago. ... more  
Crisis-hit Iraq makes latest bid to elect presidentBaghdad (AFP) Oct 13, 2022 Lawmakers in crisis-hit Iraq meet Thursday for their fourth attempt this year to elect a state president and break a year-long gridlock marred by deadly violence that has deepened economic woes. ... 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."
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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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 Halifax, Canada (SPX) Oct 06, 2022  Team V-BAT announces the collaboration of three leading technical organizations each providing highly specialized and experienced capabilities to enable a very low-risk, non-developmental solution for the upcoming Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) Project. ... 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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 Brussels (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 
The EU has reached agreement on the contours of a big military mission to train 15,000 Ukrainian armed forces personnel in several member countries, diplomats said Wednesday.
A political accord was struck at a meeting of member state ambassadors in Brussels that one ambassador said will be put to a meeting of EU foreign ministers next Monday in Luxembourg.
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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 13, 2022  Lawmakers in crisis-hit Iraq meet Thursday for their fourth attempt this year to elect a state president and break a year-long gridlock marred by deadly violence that has deepened economic woes.
Oil-rich Iraq has yet to form a new government after general elections more than a year ago that were brought forward by a wave of mass protests against endemic corruption, rampant unemployment and d ... 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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 Washington (AFP) Oct 12, 2022  President Joe Biden's administration said Wednesday it would prioritize winning over China, seeing it as the only global rival to the United States, even as it also works to constrain a "dangerous" Russia.
"The post-Cold War era is over, and the competition is underway between the major powers to shape what comes next," Biden's national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, said in a speech at Ge ... more |
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 Las Tejerias, Venezuela (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 
Thousands of rescuers and residents were engaged in an increasingly desperate search through thick mud Wednesday for 56 people still missing after a devastating landslide swept through a Venezuelan town, killing dozens.
At the last official count, 43 bodies had been found after disaster struck Las Tejerias, a town of some 50,000 people nestled in the mountains about 50 kilometers (30 miles) ... 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 6, 2022 
Xi Jinping's China has dragged millions out of extreme poverty, sent spacecraft to the Moon and committed itself to cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
On the brink of securing a third term, the president can boast of several achievements in his first 10 years in power, though some do come with caveats.
Here AFP looks at some of the key advances made under Xi:
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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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