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  Washington (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 The United States said Tuesday that Russia was not complying with New START, the last remaining arms control treaty between the world's two main nuclear powers, as tensions soar over the Ukraine war. Responding to a request from Congress, the State Department faulted Russia for suspending inspections and canceling talks but did not accuse Moscow of expanding nuclear warheads beyond agreed limits. "Russia is not complying with its obligation under the New START Treaty to facilitate inspection ac ... read more |
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NATO chief hails Japan plans to expand defence spendingTokyo (AFP) Feb 1, 2023 NATO's chief on Wednesday applauded Japan's plan to double its defence spending, saying that the pledge reflected the country's resolve for greater security involvement in a volatile world. ... more 
US, South Korean defence chiefs vow more drills to counter NorthSeoul (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met his counterpart in Seoul on Tuesday, pledging to beef up joint drills and security cooperation as South Korea seeks nuclear reassurances in the face of growing North Korean threats. ... more  
Lockheed Martin team up with DARPA and AFRL for hypersonicsPalmdale CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2023 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) team accomplished their primary objectives durin ... more  
AAC Clyde Space to be part of first ESA situational awareness GEO Satellite programEdinburgh, Scotland (SPX) Jan 31, 2023 A consortium including AAC Clyde Space's subsidiary AAC Hyperion has been selected by European Defence Fund to develop a less than 100 kg satellite to be placed in geostationary orbit (GEO) for spac ... more |
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Japan and NATO pledge 'firm' response to China, Russia threatsTokyo (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 Japan and NATO must "remain united and firm" in the face of security threats posed by China, North Korea and Russia's war in Ukraine, Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday in Tokyo. ... more  
France to send more mobile artillery to UkraineParis (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 France will ship 12 more Caesar truck-mounted howitzers and fresh air defence equipment to Ukraine to bolster the fight against Russian invaders, Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said Tuesday. ... more  
Poland not in talks to send F-16s to UkraineWarsaw (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 Poland is not in talks to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, a deputy defence minister said Tuesday, a day after the US ruled out delivering fighter jets to the war-torn country. ... more  
China angered by new Czech president's Taiwan callPrague (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 China criticised Czech president-elect Petr Pavel on Tuesday for holding a telephone call with Taiwan's president and foreign minister the day before. ... more |
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Hungary blasts Sweden's 'stupidity' on NATO row with TurkeyBudapest (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 Hungary accused Sweden of "stupidity" Tuesday over an extremist incident in Stockholm that led Turkey to suspend NATO accession talks with the Nordic country and its neighbour Finland. ... more  
Iridium GO exec redefines personal off-the-grid connectivityMcLean VA (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) has unveiled the most capable, ultra-portable solution for truly global connections to all smartphones, tablets and laptops - a new class of personal satellite ... more  
DARPA team begins work on field deployable whole blood equivalentWashington DC (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 Bleeding is the most common cause of potentially survivable death in trauma, in both military and civilian settings. Whole blood is recognized as the resuscitation fluid of choice; however, it has l ... more  
LeoLabs expands weather radar coverage of Southern Hemisphere in the Indo-Pacific regionMenlo Park CA (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 LeoLabs, the leading commercial provider of Space Domain Awareness (SDA) services and low Earth orbit (LEO) mapping, announced the commissioning of the LeoLabs West Australian Space Radar (WASR). Th ... more |
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AI voice tool 'misused' as deepfakes flood web forumParis (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 A British AI firm said it was rethinking its "safeguards" after its audio tool was used to clone celebrity voices and have them say racist and homophobic slurs. ... more 
UK court examines legality of resuming Saudi arms salesLondon (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 London's High Court on Tuesday examined the legality of a decision by the UK to renew sales of arms to Saudi Arabia that could be used in the war in Yemen. ... more  
Voices from Myanmar's coup, two years onBangkok (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 Mothers who have lost sons, young women training as combat medics - none of Myanmar's population has been left untouched by the tumult that has engulfed the country since a military coup two years ago. ... more  
Blinken meets Palestinian leaders in bid to restore calmRamallah, Palestinian Territories (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to meet Palestinian leaders Tuesday for his final stop on a Middle East tour aimed at curbing the worst outbreak of Israeli-Palestinian violence in years. ... more 
Myanmar junta prepares for poll, raising fears of more bloodshedBangkok (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 Two years after a coup snuffed out Myanmar's short-lived democratic experiment, the country's military is planning elections that analysts warn could spark further bloodshed as opposition to junta rule rages on. ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 
The Kremlin refused to say Friday whether Russia was preparing for strikes on the capital after images of missile defence systems on several Moscow rooftops circulated on social media.
The pictures appeared to show a Pantsir anti-aircraft system installed on the defence ministry building along the Moskva River, which was visible Friday on the main ministry building in the capital.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 31, 2023 
The joint DARPA and U.S. Air Force Hypersonic Airbreathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) completed yet another successful flight test. The Lockheed Martin version of the missile, with its Aerojet Rocketdyne scramjet, capped a program that accomplished all of its initial objectives. It was the final flight test for HAWC, which is providing critical data to inform Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) hype ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) Jan 29, 2023 
Iran said early Sunday it had repelled a drone attack on a military site in central Isfahan province, according to the defence ministry quoted by the IRNA news agency.
"An unsuccessful attack was carried out using (drones) ... on one of the workshop complexes of the ministry of defence," it said, adding that the strike late Saturday night caused only minor damage to the roof of a building bu ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Jan 27, 2023 
The Department of the Air Force's Navigation Technology Satellite-3, or NTS-3, Vanguard program has reached another major milestone in preparation for the satellite's launch in late 2023.
Industry partner L3Harris Technologies, the spacecraft prime contractor, recently delivered the NTS-3 space vehicle to an Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, integration and test facility at Kirtland ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 
France will ship 12 more Caesar truck-mounted howitzers and fresh air defence equipment to Ukraine to bolster the fight against Russian invaders, Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said Tuesday.
The artillery pieces, adding to 18 already delivered, would be financed from a 200-million-euro ($217-million) pot France set up to fund arms for Kyiv, Lecornu told a Paris press conference with his ... more |
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 London (AFP) Jan 31, 2023  London's High Court on Tuesday examined the legality of a decision by the UK to renew sales of arms to Saudi Arabia that could be used in the war in Yemen.
The case has been brought by UK-based NGO, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), which accuses the government of contributing to breaches of international law and the world's largest humanitarian disaster, which has claimed tens of thousand ... more |
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 Budapest (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 
Hungary accused Sweden of "stupidity" Tuesday over an extremist incident in Stockholm that led Turkey to suspend NATO accession talks with the Nordic country and its neighbour Finland.
Turkey and Hungary remain the only members of the 30-nation Western defence alliance to have failed to ratify the membership bids by Sweden and Finland.
But a decision by Swedish police to allow a protest ... 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) Jan 26, 2023 
Iraq has sentenced 14 people to death by hanging for their role in the Islamic State group massacre of hundreds of army cadets in 2014, judicial officials said Thursday.
The massacre, one of the worst committed by IS in Iraq, saw the extremists in June 2014 abduct up to 1,700 mainly Shiite cadets from the Speicher military base in the Tikrit region and execute them.
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 
The United States said Tuesday that Russia was not complying with New START, the last remaining arms control treaty between the world's two main nuclear powers, as tensions soar over the Ukraine war.
Responding to a request from Congress, the State Department faulted Russia for suspending inspections and canceling talks but did not accuse Moscow of expanding nuclear warheads beyond agreed l ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Jan 27, 2023 
The World Trade Organization will appoint experts to examine two European Union complaints against China over patents and trade restrictions imposed on Lithuania, a Geneva-based trade official said Friday.
The decision was reached during the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) meeting on Friday, the official said on condition of anonymity.
China is the EU's biggest trading partner, and t ... more |
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 Heijningen, Netherlands (AFP) Jan 30, 2023 
Seventy years after the worst natural disaster to strike the Netherlands, Chiem de Vos, seven at the time, still hears his neighbour's desperate cries of "My children are drowning!" ringing in his ears.
And as the Dutch this week commemorate the great flood of 1953, thoughts are inevitably turning to current-day climate change and how the low-lying country remains vulnerable to rising ocean ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 31, 2023 
China's Deep Space Exploration Lab (DSEL) said Monday that it is inviting top global talents to apply for the 2023 Overseas Outstanding Young Talents Program, to promote the development of deep-space exploration.
According to the DSEL, the program, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, aims to attract outstanding young scholars from overseas, who have made achievement ... more |
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 London (AFP) Jan 30, 2023 
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei on Monday said the Chinese state's razing of his studios still fails to make "any sense" to him, as he launched his first design-focused exhibition, due to open in London in April.
Ai's love of artefacts and traditional craftsmanship will be at the heart of the show which will feature hundreds of thousands of objects collected by the Chinese artist since the 1990s ... more |
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 London (AFP) Jan 28, 2023 
A serving member of the British Army appeared in court on Saturday charged with a terror offence and a bomb hoax.
Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, was remanded in custody after his brief appearance in London's Westminster Magistrates' Court.
London police said he was charged on Friday over two incidents at a Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Stafford, central England, near the army barracks where ... more |
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 Bothell WA (SPX) Jan 24, 2023 
Lockheed Martin achieved first light from the Directed Energy Interceptor for Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense System (DEIMOS) system, which verifies that the laser's optical performance parameters align with the system design parameters.
Lockheed Martin's 50 kW-class DEIMOS system is a ruggedized, tactical laser weapon system that can be integrated into the Stryker combat vehicle to deliv ... more |
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