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Japan gave its military the green light on Friday to shoot down any incoming North Korean rocket, with tensions high ahead of a planned launch that the US and allies say will be an illegal missile test. Japanese and US warships have already deployed ahead of the April 4-8 window, when the secretive North has said it will launch a communications satellite - warning that shooting it down woul ... read more 
New Delhi (AFP) March 29, 2009India's military on Sunday successfully tested a surface-to-surface version of the BrahMos cruise missile which it has developed jointly with Russia, a defence ministry spokesman said. The missile was fired from the Pokhran range in the western desert state of Rajasthan, bordering Pakistan, that was also the site of India's nuclear tests in 1998. The BrahMos has a range of 290 kilometres ... more
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London (AFP) March 29, 2009Israel used unmanned drones to attack clandestine Iranian convoys in Sudan that were attempting to smuggle rockets into Gaza, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported. The paper said that western diplomats confirmed that Israel attacked the Iranian truck convoys in late January and the first week of February in the remote Sudan desert, just outside the Red Sea town of Port Sudan. ... more  
Washington (AFP) March 28, 2009A electronic spying operation based primarily in China has infiltrated government and private computers in 103 countries around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, The New York Times reported late Saturday. Citing a report prepared by Canadian researchers and due to be issued this weekend, the paper said the system was being controlled from computers based almost exclusively in Ch ... more 
San Francisco (AFP) March 29, 2009A tenacious computer worm which has wriggled its way onto machines worldwide is set to evolve on April Fool's Day, becoming harder to exterminate but not expected to wreak havoc. A task force assembled by Microsoft has been working to stamp out the worm, referred to as Conficker or DownAdUP, and the US software colossus has placed a bounty of 250,000 dollars on the heads of those responsible ... more 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2009Lockheed Martin has announced that it will offer its extensive capabilities to the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) in the competitive acquisition the agency intends to conduct for future operations and sustainment of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system and associated support facilities. "Lockheed Martin is committed to providing efficient and effective support to the MDA and ... more |
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AI giants promise Trump to pay for increased energy needsNew York (AFP) Mar 4, 2026 Seven US tech giants at the forefront of artificial intelligence committed Wednesday to offset the costs of their increased electricity needs through investments in energy infrastructure. ... more 
  
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Left, right and faithful unite to demand human control over AIWashington, United States (AFP) Mar 4, 2026 A coalition spanning US conservative figure Steve Bannon, progressives, labor unions and faith groups announced Wednesday a joint declaration of principles on artificial intelligence, framing the effort as a pushback against what they called Silicon Valley's reckless deployment of AI. ... more 
Europe should focus on industrial AI, SAP saysWalldorf, Germany (AFP) Mar 4, 2026 Europe should focus on competing in industrial AI, a top executive at German software giant SAP said, as the continent plays catch-up in the race for the cutting-edge technology against the United States and China. ... more 
Questions over AI capability as tech guides Iran strikesParis, France (AFP) Mar 7, 2026 The latest bout of fighting between the United States, Israel and Iran has seen AI deployed as never before to sift intelligence and select targets, although the technology's use in war remains hotly debated. ... more
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Moscow (AFP) March 28, 2009Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his US counterpart Barack Obama will make a joint declaration on their weapons arsenals next week, in a step towards renewing a key Cold War disarmament pact, a Kremlin advisor said Saturday. Amid hopes of warming relations that have seen their worst cooling since the fall of communism, the two leaders are to hold their first meeting on the sidelines of ... more  
San Diego CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2009The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $48 million contract for initial fielding and continued development of the Joint Warning and Reporting Network (JWARN). This is a follow-on contract to the company's initial award in 2003. JWARN will provide the military services near real-time analysis and response capability to minimize the effects of chemical, biological, radiological and nuc ... more 
Washington (UPI) Mar 27, 2009 "If you don't succeed at first, try, try and try again." That old saying could be the motto for the Russian navy, which is pushing ahead with at least three more test launchings of its much-troubled Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile this year. "We are planning three test launches of the Bulava missile from the Dmitry Donskoi submarine. If the tests are successful, they will continue on board the new Yury Dolgoruky nuclear-powered submarine," Vice Adm. Oleg Burtsev, deputy chief of the navy general staff, announced March 19, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. ... more 
Moscow (AFP) March 27, 2009Russia plans to turn the Arctic into its "leading strategic resource base" by 2020 and station troops there, documents showed Friday, as nations race to stake a claim to the oil-rich region. The country's strategy for the Arctic through 2020 - adopted last year and now published on the national security council website - says one of Russia's main goals for the region is to put troops in it ... more |
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