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US secretary of state designate Hillary Clinton promised Tuesday during her Senate confirmation hearing to renegotiate quickly the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) that expires December 31. Clinton said the incoming administration of President Barack Obama "will have a very strong commitment to START treaty negotiations" which made little progress under George W. Bush's outgoing team. ... read more 
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 15, 2009The head of India's army on Wednesday confirmed that Pakistan has redeployed troops along the two countries' tense border but said he regarded war as a "last resort." "The aspect of some (Pakistani) troops coming towards the east... we are aware of it. That has happened. They have come to the eastern border of Pakistan with India," General Deepak Kapoor told a news conference. "However, ... more
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Seoul (AFP) Jan 15, 2009Former South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung Thursday urged the next US president not to put the North Korean nuclear issue on the back burner while focusing on Iran's atomic activities. Kim, who won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for a historic summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-Il, said President Barack Obama should pursue an "all-at-once package deal" -- with the US giving the communist state a ... more  
Washington (UPI) Jan 14, 2009 Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, a United Technologies Corp. company, announced Monday it has won a $12 million contract from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency for the first phase of a contract "to design, build, integrate, and test a prototype Divert and Attitude Control System -- DACS -- that will power two different types of kinetic vehicles on missile interceptors." ... more  
Gaza City (AFP) Jan 14, 2009Israeli jets carried out a fresh wave of air strikes across the Gaza Strip late on Wednesday, killing at least 13 Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy, medics and witnesses said. Six people were killed in a number of air raids near the Sufa crossing, close to the southern town of Rafah, said the sources. Three civilians were also killed in a house east of Khan Yunis in the centre of ... more 
Seoul (AFP) Jan 15, 2009Seoul Thursday rejected North Korea's fresh demand for verification that all US nuclear weapons have been withdrawn from South Korea, saying there are no such weapons on its territory. The North made the demand Tuesday in a foreign ministry statement seen as its first message to the incoming US administration of Barack Obama. The communist state, which has committed itself to nuclear dis ... more |
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France updates net-zero plan, with fossil fuel phaseout; Fight over fossil fuels nixes key text of UN environment reportParis, France (AFP) Dec 12, 2025 France released on Friday a revamped roadmap to become carbon neutral by 2050, with an ambitious plan to phase out oil and gas. ... more  
Policies to expand US grid weigh cost reliability and emissionsBoston MA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 Growing energy demand means the U.S. will almost certainly have to expand its electricity grid in coming years. What's the best way to do this? A new study by MIT researchers examines legislation in ... more 
EU agrees to weaken and delay green business rulesBrussels, Belgium (AFP) Dec 9, 2025 European governments and lawmakers agreed to weaken and delay new environmental and human rights rules Tuesday, clearing a key hurdle in a push to unpick EU regulations seen as too burdensome for businesses. ... more 
  
X-MAT introduces X-FOAM: A game-changing ceramic foam for extreme environmentsOrlando, FL (SPX) Dec 01, 2025 X-MAT has announced the release of X-FOAM, a 1,300°C ceramic foam engineered for use in harsh environments demanding high thermal insulation and structural performance. ... more 
Bible 1.0: How Ancient Canon Became Our First Large Language ModelsSydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Modern large language models are treated as something radically new: vast statistical machines trained on almost everything humans have written, and able to regenerate knowledge on demand. Yet in structural terms, humanity has worked with something similar for millennia. ... more 
Digital twin successfully launched and deployed into spaceDavis CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 A dynamic digital twin designed by UC Davis researchers was launched into Earth's orbit last week aboard a SpaceX rocket. The innovation, which will model the current condition and predict the futur ... more
  
AI advances robot navigation on the International Space StationStanford CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025 Imagine a robot about the size of a toaster floating through the tight corridors of the International Space Station, quietly moving supplies or checking for leaks - all without an astronaut at the c ... more 
Indian dance mudras yield advanced synergies for robotic hand controlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2025 Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County extracted building blocks from precise hand gestures in Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form. Their analysis revealed a richer set ... more 
MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebeeBoston MA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a devastating earthquake. Like real insects, these robots could flit through t ... more
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Washington (AFP) Jan 13, 2009Iran is likely to use this year's elections in Iraq to try and extend its influence over the country even as it trains, funds and arms militant groups intent on destabilizing Iraq, the Pentagon said Tuesday. In a quarterly report to Congress, the Defense Department said Iran's "malign influence" was one of a number of factors that still weighs on the security situation in Iraq even though vi ... more 
Camp Hero, Afghanistan (AFP) Jan 14, 2009Having already fought against the Taliban in his two years in the Afghan army, Gul Mohammad has little trouble picking up the tricks of his new American-issue automatic weapon. What concerns the young soldier is whether he will be able to rely on the weapon when it counts, as he has done so often before with its Russian equivalent, a Kalashnikov AK-47, favoured in central Asia for decades. ... more 
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 13, 2009A new audit of a $1.2 billion contract for reconstruction in Iraq's southern oil sector split the blame for cost overruns and underperformance between the main contractor, Kellogg Brown & Root, and the U.S. and Iraqi governments. Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton until April 2007 and now an independent firm known as KBR, was awarded the vaguely worded contract in January ... more  
Washington (AFP) Jan 13, 2009The Pentagon said Tuesday that 61 former detainees are believed to have returned to terrorism since their release from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a big increase from its last count. Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, used the new numbers to highlight the challenges of quickly closing the prison despite reports that President-elect Barack Obama will move immediately to direct its closure ... more |
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US says Mexico agrees to water treaty obligationsNew York (AFP) Dec 13, 2025 The United States and Mexico reached an agreement on water-sharing on Friday, after President Donald Trump threatened new sanctions. ... more 
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IAEA calls for repair work on Chernobyl sarcophagusVienna (AFP) Dec 7, 2025 The UN nuclear watchdog has said that the protective structure surrounding the exploded reactor at Chernobyl can no longer perform its main function of blocking radiation, after a Russian drone strike earlier this year. ... more 
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