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Boeing wins $3.48 billion contract for US missile shieldWashington (AFP) Dec 30, 2011 Boeing won a $3.48 billion contract Friday to retain its leading role in building a US shield against long-range ballistic missiles, defeating rival Lockheed Martin Corp., officials said Friday. The US Missile Defense Agency announced the decision for the seven-year contract in which Boeing will test, engineer and manufacture the system designed to thwart potential attacks from intercontinental ballistic missiles. Chicago-based Boeing was joined by partner Northrop Grumman, which will oversee th ... read more |
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 Lockheed wins contract for UAE anti-missile system The Pentagon awarded US defense giant Lockheed Martin Corp. with a $1.96 billion contract Friday to supply the United Arab Emirates with a missile defense system. ... more | .. |
  Saudi F-15s tip of $123B gulf arms plan The $30 billion sale of 84 advanced Boeing F-15SA fighters and upgrades for 70 older models is a major component of a far wider U.S. arms deal with Saudi Arabia that's worth $63 billion and aimed at countering Iran. ... more | .. |
  Pyongyang: Business as usual in new year North Korea has hit out at South Korea's president and other "foolish politicians" if they think Pyongyang will change after the death of leader Kim Jong Il. ... more | .. |
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  Indian army eating out-of-date food India's army is eating out-of-date food, the government's spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee said. ... more | .. |
  Israel says it killed senior jihadist in Gaza strike Israel said its warplanes killed a senior jihadist militant in the Gaza Strip on Friday, two days after saying it was weighing a wider campaign to stem an increase in rocket fire from the territory. ... more | .. |
  Russia says nuclear submarine fire out Russian firefighters on Friday put out flames on a nuclear submarine undergoing repairs near Norway after almost a day-long blaze that raised concerns about the security of Russia's ageing fleet. ... more | .. |
  Iran to test-fire missiles in strategic oil waterway Tehran said it will test-fire missiles in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, a move likely to stoke tensions with Washington already running high over Iran's threats to close the strategic oil waterway if sanctions are enforced. ... more |
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Perseverance rover cleared for long distance Mars exploration
Possible "superkilonova" exploded not once but twice
Origami style lunar rover wheel expands to climb steep caves | .. |
  NATO coalition at risk from French vote NATO's multifaceted partnership with eastern member Turkey is at risk after Ankara slapped sanctions on Paris in response to a French Parliament vote criminalizing denial of genocide, including the deaths of Armenians during World War I. ... more | .. |
  Over 560 ISAF troops die in Afghan war in 2011 Foreign troops fighting in Afghanistan continue to pay a high toll, with more than 560 killed in 2011, the second highest number in the 10-year war against the Taliban-led insurgency. ... more | .. |
 Israel FM slams ultra-Orthodox gender segregation moves Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman condemned as "intolerable barbarism" Friday efforts by hardline ultra-Orthodox Jews to segregate the sexes in public places. ... more | .. |
 Turkish PM sorry over deadly strike on Kurds Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed regret Friday for the killing of 35 Kurdish civilians in an air strike as mourners vented their fury and rebels called for an uprising. ... more |
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 Russia hands over Nerpa nuclear sub to India: report Russia has handed over the nuclear-powered attack submarine Nerpa to India following more than two years of delays, a senior naval official was quoted as saying Friday. ... more | .. |
  Anonymous releases more Stratfor data Online "hacktivist" group Anonymous has released a trove of email addresses and credit card numbers stolen from the website of intelligence analysis firm Stratfor and promised further attacks. ... more | .. |
 Finland to widen missile shipment probe Finland wants to widen a probe into the illegal transit of 69 Patriot missiles through its territory aboard a regular merchant vessel, Finnish customs said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Iraq row festers as speaker denies penning op-ed A political row festered in Iraq on Friday, as a top Sunni leader denied he penned a commentary criticising the Shiite-led government, the latest in a crisis that has stoked sectarian tensions. ... more |
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Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
Climate driven model explores Neanderthal and modern human overlap in Iberia
Economic losses from natural disasters down by a third in 2025: Swiss Re | .. |
 US stunned by 1981 Israeli strike on Iraq: UK files US defence secretary Caspar Weinberger was left stunned by Israel's air strike on an Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981, according to secret British files released Friday. ... more | .. |
  Argentina's last dictator sentenced again Argentina's last dictator Reynaldo Bignone, already serving a life term, was handed a 15-year prison sentence Thursday for rights violations at a clandestine detention center, sources said. ... more | .. |
 US, SKorean envoys discuss 'next steps' on NKorea US and South Korean defense chiefs and top diplomats discussed the "next steps" to take on the Korean peninsula following the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, US officials said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Thatcher warned over navy before Falklands invasion Prime minister Margaret Thatcher was warned about the risks in slashing Britain's navy, a year before the 1982 Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands, secret files released Friday showed. ... more |
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 As US commander, Petraeus ruled out resigning: book The former US military commander in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, rejected suggestions to resign over disagreements with President Barack Obama, concluding it would be a "selfish, grandstanding move," a new book says. ... more | .. |
 Turkish air strike kills 35 Kurds in apparent 'blunder' Turkish fighter jets killed 35 Kurds in an air strike the country's ruling party admitted could have been a "blunder" that mistakenly hit civilians instead of Kurdish separatists. ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Awarded U.S. Navy Systems Contracts With Combined Potential Value of Nearly $72 Million Raytheon has received two separate contract awards from the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) of the United States Navy for work on: the Phalanx, SeaRAM and Land-based Phalanx weapons systems; and ... more | .. |
 India gets indigenous bomb disposal unit The Indian army's corps of engineers has taken delivery of the first six indigenously made, remotely operated vehicles designed for bomb disposal. ... more |
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The Quantum Age will be Powered by Fusion
Physicists map axion production paths inside deuterium tritium fusion reactors
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Genocide bill protesters hack French sites The Web site of the French Senate was functioning again this week after it was hacked by Turkish protesters upset at an Armenian genocide bill. ... more | .. |
 'U.S. mulls ways to aid Syrian rebels' Amid dwindling expectations the Arab League observer mission to Syria will end the savagery there, senior U.S. officials are reported to be quietly preparing options to help dissident groups seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad. ... more | .. |
 Outside View: American exceptionalism Americans should be thankful that the values that define the United States - personal liberty and individual pursuit of happiness - are increasingly embraced around the globe. ... more | .. |
 NATO troops killed by Afghan counterparts: precedents A man dressed in Afghan army fatigues on Thursday shot dead two French soldiers in what appeared to be the latest attack by a member of the Afghan security forces on NATO troops. ... more |
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 Pakistan military debuts on graft list Corruption watchdog Transparency International for the first time has included Pakistan's military in an annual survey, listing it as a notch more corrupt than the country's education department. ... more | .. |
 Gaza rocket hits Israel after overnight air strikes Palestinian militants fired a rocket at southern Israel on Thursday, hours after Israeli warplanes attacked "terror sites" inside the Gaza Strip, the army said. ... more | .. |
 Turkish air strike kills 35 Kurds near Iraq: official A Turkish air raid on a Kurdish area near the Iraq border killed at least 35 people, with the military apparently mistaking smugglers for separatist rebels, officials said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 US base in Kyrgyzstan 'very dangerous': president Kyrgyzstan's new leader said Thursday it was "very dangerous" for his Central Asian nation to host a US military base at Bishkek airport and that it must become a fully civilian airport by 2014. ... more |
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