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US warplanes shot down an Iranian drone inside Iraqi airspace north of Baghdad last month, an American military spokesman said on Monday. "This was not an accident on the part of the Iranians," the unnamed spokesman said in a statement, without elaborating. "The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) was in Iraqi airspace for nearly one hour and 10 minutes and well inside Iraqi territory before i ... read more 
Caracas (AFP) March 15, 2009Venezuela has offered Russia unlimited use of an air base off its Caribbean coast, President Hugo Chavez said Sunday - the latest step to boost military ties between the two countries. "I told (Russian) President (Dmitry) Medvedev that any time Russia's strategic aircraft need to land in Venezuela to meet their strategic aims, Venezuela will be at their service," Chavez said. Chavez's ... more
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EU to probe Czech aid for two nuclear units
Japan vote moves world's biggest nuclear plant closer to restart Global nuclear arms control under pressure in 2026 Macron, on UAE visit, announces new French aircraft carrier North Korea says Japan's nuclear ambitions must be stopped 'at any cost' India's parliament passes bill to open nuclear power to private firms Russian nuclear-capable missile Oreshnik deployed in Belarus Mossad chief says Israel must 'ensure' Iran won't restart nuclear programme Zelensky says Donetsk among key disagreements in peace talks Press Release from Business Wire: Helical Fusion Co., Ltd. 
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Seoul (AFP) March 15, 2009Critics call them provocative and a threat to regional peace but North Korea sees its missile tests as a sure-fire way of grabbing Washington's attention, analysts say. The communist state last week notified international aviation and maritime agencies that it will launch a communications satellite between April 4-8. Seoul and Washington say this is a pretext to test its Taepodong-2 miss ... more  
Paris (AFP) March 15, 2009Recent weeks have seen a flurry of diplomatic activity on the Afghan front, but this should not disguise what Western envoys admit is a radical lowering of their ambitions for the war-torn land. Where once Washington and its allies boasted that Afghanistan would serve as a democratic model in a difficult region, officials now accept things are going badly and that NATO can't hope to win a ... more  
Washington (UPI) Mar 16, 2009 Writing in the respected Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz on March 5, analyst Yossi Melman noted that in July 2007, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak questioned Shmuel Kern, director of the research and development department of the Israeli Defense Ministry, as to exploring the possibility of buying Raytheon's Vulcan Phalanx super machine gun from the United States as an anti-ballistic missile wea ... more  
Washington (AFP) March 16, 2009The US Defense Department on Monday made light of Russia's possible use of air bases in Venezuela or Cuba for its strategic bombers. "That would be quite a long way for those old planes to fly," Geoff Morrell, Pentagon press secretary, told AFP. Another defense official said Russia's efforts to promote military ties with Venezuela and Cuba were not cause for serious concern. Top US ... 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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Baghdad (AFP) March 15, 2009The US military's pullout from Iraqi cities in June will improve urban security as American troops refocus on catching insurgents in the countryside, a senior US official said Sunday. "The repositioning to peripheral locations in the city will improve security outside and in the city centres by choking off supply chains fuelling terrorism," Baghdad's deputy US commander Brigadier General Fre ... more 
Rawalpindi (AFP) March 16, 2009A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a restaurant in Pakistan's garrison city of Rawalpindi on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding 17 others, police said. "The suicide bomber blew himself up on a motorbike outside a restaurant, which was set up close to the cab stand," said senior police commander Nasir Durrani in the city that neighbours the capital, Islamabad. ... more  
Washington (AFP) March 15, 2009Ali al-Marri may have shaken off his status as the last "enemy combatant" held in the United States, but he remains in a military prison facing trial in federal court on charges of helping the Al-Qaeda terror network. The 43-year-old former Illinois student next appears before a federal judge on Wednesday in Charleston, South Carolina, a rare reprieve from deep isolation since president Geor ... more  
Washington (UPI) Mar 16, 2009 In politics, as in life, be careful what you wish for. The Palestinians had long wanted a two-state solution, and, well, now they have a two-state solution. Two states, one in the West Bank and one in Gaza. Actually, better make that three states, if you count the state of confusion that the two opposing states have created. Indeed, confusion seems to be the dominating factor in the Mid ... more |
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