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March 11, 2013

Sanctions hold little fear for North Korea: analysts
Seoul (AFP) March 8, 2013
The UN Security Council may have sharpened the teeth of its sanctions regime on North Korea, but analysts doubt it has the bite to put an increasingly belligerent Pyongyang off its nuclear programme. Thursday's adoption of a sanctions resolution by the 15-member council was almost drowned out by the North's vitriolic rhetoric, which threatened nuclear strikes against the US and the scrapping of peace pacts with South Korea. The resolution, drafted in response to North Korea's third nuclear test ... read more

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Screaming crowds greet Kim on Korean frontline North Korean television broadcast emotional scenes Friday of cheering soldiers and their young families greeting leader Kim Jong-Un as he visited a frontline unit that shelled the South in 2010. ... more		Beechcraft fights defense Embraer contract Beechcraft Corp. is protesting a light air support aircraft contract given to Embraer of Brazil and the Sierra Nevada Corp. by the U.S. Air Force. ... more		France, Israel for stronger sanctions on Iran Sanctions on Iran over its contested nuclear programme are biting but need to be strengthened further, French President Francois Hollande and his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres said on Friday. ... more
				Jordan king hopes Obama visit revives Mideast peace King Abdullah II of Jordan said on Saturday that he hoped the visit of US President Barack Obama to Israel and the West Bank later this month will offer a momentum to the Mideast peace process. ... more		N. Korea scraps peace pacts as sanctions toughened An enraged North Korea responded to new UN sanctions with fresh threats of nuclear war on Friday, vowing to scrap peace pacts with South Korea as it upped the ante yet again after its recent atomic test. ... more

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Iraq minister quits after protester killed Iraqi Agriculture Minister Ezzedine al-Dawleh resigned on Friday after a protester was killed in the north, the second minister from the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc to quit this month. ... more		Merkel under fire over Mideast arms sales German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is under fire again over lifting longtime restrictions of arms exports to the Middle East after figures show weapon sales to the Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf more than doubled in 2012. ... more		AI systems proposed to boost launch cadence reliability and traffic management China debuts Long March 12A reusable rocket in Jiuquan test flight Curiosity Blog, Sols 4750-4762: See You on the Other Side of the Sun		11 militants killed in Orakzai Pakistani security forces have killed 11 insurgents in Pakistan's Orakzai northwestern tribal region. ... more
				US buries two Civil War sailors , 151 years later The remains of two sailors who died aboard a famed US Civil War ship were buried with full military honors on Friday, 151 years after their groundbreaking vessel fought a crucial battle. ... more		Chad joins African force in Mali Chad's 2,000-strong contingent in Mali, which has played a leading part in the fight against jihadist militants, on Saturday officially joined the regional African force deployed there. ... more

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Australia's bloated defense contracts Projected Australian defense budget constraints are affecting military acquisition programs. ... more		China looks to Russia, Africa after transition China's new president will pay a state visit to Russia and three African countries, the foreign minister said Saturday, with Beijing looking to step up diplomacy after a protracted leadership transition. ... more		OPERA satellite data sharpens US crop and water management Alen Space begins SATMAR satellite validation over Bay of Algeciras Deep Arctic gas hydrate mounds host ultra deep cold seep ecosystem		NATO contractor killed in Afghan 'insider attack': officials A NATO civilian contractor was killed by three people wearing Afghan security force uniforms on Friday in the latest suspected "insider attack" to target the international military coalition. ... more
				Pakistan middle class fixes sights on China When Misbah Rashid taught Chinese 30 years ago, few signed up. Today his department has more than 200 Pakistani students, increasingly attracted by the prospect of an affordable education and a job. ... more		Second F-35 For The Netherlands Rolls Out Of F-35 Production Facility The second Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II for the Netherlands rolled out of the F-35 production facility on March 2. This is the latest step in the production process leading to its eventua ... more

Lockheed Martin Wins Aegis Combat System Engineering Agent Contract

US radar to boost missile defence in Japan

Israel tests Arrow but funding cuts loom

Raytheon delivers first Standard Missile-6 from new Alabama missile integration facility

Lockheed Martin Receives Long Range Anti-Ship Missile Contract From DARPA

Syria missile strikes in Aleppo leave 58 dead: NGO

Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Joint STARS, Global Hawk Interoperability

Europe presses ahead on UAS development

Better workstations for drone operators may reduce mishaps

INTEROP-7000 uses ISSI to link IP-based voice comms with legacy radio

Space race under way to create quantum satellite

Boeing Receives USAF Contract for Integrated C4ISR Targeting Solution

	Knife attack in China's Xinjiang kills 4: government Several knife-wielding attackers killed four people and wounded eight others in China's ethnically-divided western region of Xinjiang, a government official said on Friday. ... more		French defence minister visits troops in Mali French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Thursday visited French troops in northern Mali, where the military says they have killed 150 Islamist rebels over the past month. ... more		N. Korea voids pacts with South as sanctions toughened North Korea announced Friday it was voiding non-aggression pacts with South Korea and severing a hotline with Seoul, hours after the UN Security Council adopted tough new sanctions on Pyongyang. ... more		Human brain treats prosthetic devices as part of the body The human brain can learn to treat relevant prosthetics as a substitute for a non-working body part, according to research published March 6 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Mariella Pazzaglia ... more

Redesigned carbon framework boosts battery safety and power

Molecular catalyst switches between hydrogen and oxygen production

Project Pele microreactor reaches key milestone with first TRISO fuel delivery

Award-winning Tibetan writer denied China passport		Space station to watch for Earth disasters		Anger over attack on Hong Kong journalists in China		Improving Electronics by Solving Nearly Century-old Problem		Venezuela, China vow deeper ties after Chavez death
Oettinger: EU wants Norway natural gas		Large protest in Greece against Canadian goldmine plans		Russia muscles in on East Med gas boom		China expresses currency fears as yen plummets		China inflation spikes, factory output growth slows

France believes French hostages in Sahel still alive

First discovery of a natural topological insulator

Peak Oil Is Almost Here and There's No Magic To Counter It

China trade surplus narrows in February: customs

World leaders at Chavez funeral: Who's Who of US foes

China exports jump in February as economy recovers

Man-made material pushes the bounds of superconductivity

Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Joint STARS, Global Hawk Interoperability

N. Korea threatens 'pre-emptive' nuclear strike on US

Russia will continue building up its defenses

US ready to compromise with Russia on battlefield nuclear arms

Lockheed Martin Wins Aegis Combat System Engineering Agent Contract

China targeting navigation system's global coverage by 2020

China's fourth space launch center to be in use in two years

Russian GLONASS space satellite group again at full strength

Analytical theory may bring improvements to lithium-ion batteries

UN hits N. Korea with new sanctions amid attack threat

Mysterious electron stash found hidden among Van Allen belts

Iraq closes border post after Syria clashes

Raytheon delivers first Standard Missile-6 from new Alabama missile integration facility

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