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  Seoul (AFP) Jan 11, 2018 With their good looks and sharp moves, North Korea's female cheerleaders are a marked contrast to the regime's menacing nuclear ambitions. Dubbed the "army of beauties" in South Korea, the young North Korean women - mostly in their late teens or early 20s - have attracted huge publicity whenever they have been sent to the South. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's future wife Ri Sol-Ju was among the group who attended the 2005 Asian Athletics Championships in Incheon. The cheerleaders are se ... read more |
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Europe, Iran to back nuclear deal as Trump decision loomsBrussels (AFP) Jan 11, 2018 Europe and Iran are to put on a united front in support of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal at talks in Brussels Thursday as Washington mulls reimposing sanctions on Tehran. ... more  
SpaceX says rocket worked fine as spy satellite reported lostMiami (AFP) Jan 09, 2018 A SpaceX rocket worked fine in its weekend launch of a secretive government satellite, named Zuma, the company said Tuesday after reports the payload did not make it into orbit. "For clarity: ... more  
India to court ASEAN leaders as it seeks edge over ChinaNew Delhi (AFP) Jan 10, 2018 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host 10 Southeast Asian leaders as guests of honour at India's Republic Day celebrations as New Delhi seeks to blunt China's influence in the region. ... more 
Macron urges European unity to face rising ChinaBeijing (AFP) Jan 10, 2018 French President Emmanuel Macron pleaded on Wednesday for European unity in the face of China's growing economic power as he wrapped up a visit to Beijing with several business deals. ... more |
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Congress to receive update from Pentagon as agency audit beginsWashington (UPI) Jan 10, 2018 The House Armed Services Committee will hear testimony on the Pentagon's financial improvement and audit remediation, or FIAR, plan on Wednesday morning at 10 am EST as the agency undergoes a defense-wide audit amid years of financial management concerns. ... more 
Netanyahu set to lead trade task force to IndiaJerusalem (AFP) Jan 10, 2018 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will take 130 businessmen with him to India next week for trade talks which will also cover defence sales, a senior Israeli official said Wednesday. ... more 
Olympic deal will do little to disarm N. Korea: analystsSeoul (AFP) Jan 10, 2018 An agreement for North Korea to send athletes to the Winter Olympics in the South signals a step change in relations, analysts say, but will do little to curb Pyongyang's nuclear capabilities. ... more 
US demands 'immediate release' of Iranian political prisonersWashington (AFP) Jan 10, 2018 The White House on Wednesday demanded that Iran release demonstrators rounded up in countrywide protests, raising pressure on Tehran as US President Donald Trump weighs the future of a key nuclear deal. ... more 
Trump, Moon signal openness for talks with N. KoreaWashington (AFP) Jan 10, 2018 President Donald Trump is open to the US holding talks with North Korea "under the right circumstances," the White House said Wednesday after South Korean President Moon Jae-In signalled a willingness to sit down with Kim Jong-Un. ... more  
China launches remote sensing satellites SuperView-1Taiyuan (XNA) Jan 10, 2018 China launched a pair of 0.5-meter high-resolution remote sensing satellites Tuesday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The satellites, SuperView-1 03/0 ... more  
State Department approves $133.3M missile sale to JapanWashington (UPI) Jan 10, 2018 The State Department has approved the potential $133.3 million foreign military sale of Standard Missile-3 Block IIA missiles to Japan. ... more |
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 Intelsat signs contract with Arianespace for two launches  
ESA researching see-through metalsParis (ESA) Jan 10, 2018 Astronauts on the International Space Station have begun running an experiment that could shine new light on how metal alloys are formed. How humanity has mastered metallurgy is synonymous wit ... more 
Arianespace prepares for a busy 2018Evry, France (SPX) Jan 10, 2018 The past year saw Arianespace carry out 11 successful launches; sign 19 additional launch contracts, including three for Vega C and two for Ariane 6; and enter a new governance structure alongside A ... more 
Arianespace begins building final 10 Ariane 5s ahead of Ariane 6 operational debutEvry, France (SPX) Jan 10, 2018 With this latest order, there are now 23 Ariane 5 launchers in production or to be produced, from the PB+ and PC batches. With this latest "PC batch," the industry confirms its commitment to consoli ... more |
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Islamic State retreats online to 'virtual caliphate'Paris (AFP) Jan 10, 2018 On the brink of defeat in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State group has been taking refuge in its "virtual caliphate" - but even online, experts say it is in decline. ... more 
Huawei setback in US market amid national security concernsWashington (AFP) Jan 10, 2018 Chinese tech giant Huawei faces a major setback in efforts to expand in the US smartphone market following renewed national security concerns, documents showed. ... more  
Surrender or be shot in the face, senior US soldier tells ISWashington (AFP) Jan 10, 2018 US troops and their allies will shoot Islamic State jihadists in the face, beat them to death with shovels or drop bombs on them if they don't surrender, the US military's most senior enlisted member has said. ... more 
Colombia president suspends ceasefire talks over rebel attacksBogota (AFP) Jan 10, 2018 Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced that he had suspended peace talks with National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels in response to what he said were guerrilla attacks earlier Wednesday. ... more 
Philippines to protest over China activity on reclaimed reefManila (AFP) Jan 9, 2018 The Philippines will lodge a diplomatic protest with China after Manila questioned if Beijing had reneged on a pledge not to militarise a disputed South China Sea reef. ... more  
Aerospace Workforce Training - National Mandate for 2018Bethesda, MD (SPX) Jan 09, 2018 As the aerospace workforce ages and technology advances it is imperative to continually train engineers and managers to refresh and advance their knowledge base in order to keep the U.S. competitive ... more 
S. Korea's Moon willing to hold summit with Kim Jong-UnSeoul (AFP) Jan 10, 2018 South Korean President Moon Jae-In said Wednesday he would be willing to sit down with the nuclear-armed North's leader Kim Jong-Un, as the international community welcomed an agreement for Pyongyang to send its athletes to the Winter Olympics in the South. ... more |
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Former Chinese military chief of staff under investigationBeijing (AFP) Jan 9, 2018 A former chief of staff of China's military is under investigation on "suspicion of bribery", state media said Tuesday, as Xi Jinping's sweeping anti-graft crackdown claimed another top general. ... more 
Japan's Aerospace Agency Developing Radar Detecting Space Micro-DebrisTokyo (Sputnik) Jan 09, 2018 Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is developing a radar that will be capable of detecting space micro-debris of about 10 centimeters (3.9 inches), local media reported on Monday. Acc ... more
US: Olympics may show North Korea what it's missingWashington (AFP) Jan 9, 2018 Washington welcomed North Korea's invitation to South Korea's Winter Games on Tuesday, suggesting the outing could show Pyongyang what awaits if it agrees to give up nuclear weapons. ... more |
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Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for the AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense equipment in support of the USS Stout, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer.
The contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is worth more than $10.1 million under a fixed-price-incentive modification to a previous award contract.
The modification could ... more Washington (UPI) Jan 5, 2018Turkey commissions study for future missile defense system  Riyadh (AFP) Jan 5, 2018Saudi Arabia intercepts Yemen rebel ballistic missile Riyadh (AFP) Jan 5, 2018Saudi intercepts ballistic missile near Yemen border: state media |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 8, 2018 
Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Raytheon a contract to procure the Navy's Standard Missile-2, or SM-2, the primary surface-to-air defense weapon used by naval cruisers and destroyers.
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is worth more than $27.2 million under a cost-plus-fixed-fee agreement to provide Standard Missile-2 between fiscal year 2018 and 2022.
... moreWashington (UPI) Jan 10, 2018State Department approves $133.3M missile sale to Japan  Washington (UPI) Jan 4, 2018Raytheon to support Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile for U.S., NATO partners  Washington (UPI) Dec 29, 2017Raytheon awarded contracts for missiles in support of foreign countries |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2018 
DARPA's Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) program aims to extend the capability of the U.S. military's existing unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) to conduct dynamic, long-distance engagements of highly mobile ground and maritime targets in contested or denied battlespaces.
Multiple CODE-equipped unmanned aircraft would navigate to their destinations and find, track, iden ... more Moscow (AFP) Jan 8, 2018Drone attack on Russian bases in Syria, no casualties: Moscow  Washington (UPI) Jan 4, 2018Air Force to upgrade Reaper drone fleet as the Predator begins retirement  Washington (UPI) Dec 29, 2017Northrop Grumman tapped to deliver three Triton UAVs |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Dec 11, 2017 
With high-throughput satellites covering 99% of the populated regions of the world, commercial satellite providers like Intelsat General are ready and willing to serve the growing bandwidth needs of the military defense market. But there's a catch. At the Global MilsatCom conference held earlier this month in London, new acquisition challenges came to light: Countries are still trying to figure ... more Washington (UPI) Dec 6, 2017Harris contracted by Army for radios for security force assistance brigades  Denver CO (SPX) Dec 07, 2017Joint Hellas-Sat-4 and SaudiGeoSat-1 satellite ready for environmental tests  McLean VA (SPX) Dec 07, 2017Government outsourcing disrupts space as SatComm services commercialised |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 8, 2018 
A group of active and retired US troops gathered in freezing temperatures outside the Pentagon on Monday to bring attention to sexual assault and harassment in the military.
The protest of about 30 people, most of them women and none in uniform, comes amid an ongoing wave of revelations about sexual misconduct in the workplace that spawned the social media campaign with the #MeToo hashtag. ... more Madrid (AFP) Jan 5, 2018Too fat to march: Spanish Legion soldiers put on diet  Washington DC (SPX) Jan 04, 2018Environmentally safe red glare rocket changes fireworks, soldier technology  Washington (UPI) Jan 3, 2018Orbital ATK awarded $23M to support penetrating weapons |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 10, 2018
The House Armed Services Committee will hear testimony on the Pentagon's financial improvement and audit remediation, or FIAR, plan on Wednesday morning at 10 am EST as the agency undergoes a defense-wide audit amid years of financial management concerns.
The Under Secretary of Defense and Chief Financial Officer David L. Norquist will update the committee on the Pentagon's FIAR plan, w ... moreJerusalem (AFP) Jan 10, 2018Netanyahu set to lead trade task force to India  Milan (AFP) Jan 8, 2018Italy acquits former Finmeccanica chief in corruption case  Washington (UPI) Jan 8, 2018State Department approves potential weapons sale to Mexico |
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 New Delhi (AFP) Jan 10, 2018 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host 10 Southeast Asian leaders as guests of honour at India's Republic Day celebrations as New Delhi seeks to blunt China's influence in the region.
India will host the leaders at a commemorative summit on January 25 to mark a quarter century of ties with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the foreign ministry said Wednesday.
Traditiona ... moreBeijing (AFP) Jan 10, 2018Macron urges European unity to face rising China Manila (AFP) Jan 9, 2018Philippines to protest over China activity on reclaimed reef  Beijing (AFP) Jan 8, 2018Macron endorses China's Silk Road but warns against 'hegemony' |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 03, 2018 
As medicine and pharmacology investigate nanoscale processes, it has become increasingly important to identify and characterize different molecules. Raman spectroscopy, a technique that leverages the scattering of laser light to identify molecules, has a limited capacity to detect molecules in diluted samples because of low signal yield.
A team of researchers from the University of Hyderab ... more Raleigh NC (SPX) Dec 27, 2017Researchers find simpler way to deposit magnetic iron oxide onto gold nanorods  Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Dec 18, 2017Discovery sets new world standard in nano generators  Boston MA (SPX) Dec 14, 2017A 100-fold leap to GigaDalton DNA nanotech |
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 Mosul, Iraq (AFP) Jan 10, 2018 
Along the waterfront of the Euphrates River in Iraq's war-torn Mosul, gaping holes in hotel walls reveal little but enormous heaps of rubble.
Six months since Iraqi forces seized the country's second city from Islamic State group jihadists, human remains still rot in front of the Al-Nuri mosque.
The building, denuded of its iconic minaret and largely reduced to ruins by the fighting, wa ... more Baghdad (AFP) Jan 4, 2018More than half of Iraq's displaced have returned home: IOM  Mosul, Iraq (AFP) Jan 1, 2018Crossing the river a major challenge in devastated Mosul  Baghdad (AFP) Dec 29, 2017Iraq faces 'new war' - on corruption |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 10, 2018 
The White House on Wednesday demanded that Iran release demonstrators rounded up in countrywide protests, raising pressure on Tehran as US President Donald Trump weighs the future of a key nuclear deal.
"The Trump Administration is deeply concerned by reports that the Iranian regime has imprisoned thousands of Iranian citizens in the past week for engaging in peaceful protests," the White Ho ... more Seoul (AFP) Jan 11, 2018North Korea's 'army of beauties' set to invade South Washington (AFP) Jan 10, 2018Trump, Moon signal openness for talks with N. Korea Seoul (AFP) Jan 10, 2018Olympic deal will do little to disarm N. Korea: analysts |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 10, 2018 
China's factory inflation slowed to a 13-month low in December, official data showed Wednesday, a sign of continued fragility in the world's second-largest economy.
The producer price index (PPI) - an important barometer of the industrial sector which measures the cost of goods at the factory gate - rose 4.9 percent year-on-year in December, its lowest rate since November 2016, according t ... more Beijing (AFP) Jan 9, 2018France signs deals with China but warns against 'pillaging'  Xian, China (AFP) Jan 8, 2018Macron begins China state visit at Silk Road gateway Xian, China (AFP) Jan 8, 2018Macron bets on horse diplomacy in China |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 11, 2018 
Hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico on Wednesday launched a new drive to become the 51st US state, with the island's governor demanding an end to "second-class" treatment of its citizens.
Puerto Rico's more than three million residents are US citizens, with no obstacles to living and working on the mainland.
Yet the US commonwealth in the Caribbean has just a non-voting delegation in the US Co ... more Tripoli (AFP) Jan 10, 2018Scores of migrants missing in Mediterranean: Libyan Navy  Miami (AFP) Jan 8, 20182017 the costliest year in US history for natural disasters  Mosul, Iraq (AFP) Jan 9, 2018Teachers in Iraq's Mosul learn to cope with traumatised pupils |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 08, 2018 
China is poised to begin a comprehensive lunar exploration program which is expected to kick off with the launch of the Long March 5 rocket in June. Professor Heino Falcke, an astrophysicist at Radboud University in the Netherlands, explained during an interview with Radio Sputnik why this mission is so important.
Radio Sputnik: Please tell us about your radio telescope, which you are plan ... more Wuhan, China (XNA) Jan 02, 2018China's Kuaizhou-11 rocket scheduled to launch in first half of 2018  Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2017Nation 'leads world' in remote sensing technology  Beijing (XNA) Nov 19, 2017China plans for nuclear-powered interplanetary capacity by 2040 |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 9, 2018 
A former chief of staff of China's military is under investigation on "suspicion of bribery", state media said Tuesday, as Xi Jinping's sweeping anti-graft crackdown claimed another top general.
Fang Fenghui was appointed to the PLA's top post in 2012. But he was abruptly replaced in late August amid a stand-off with India over a territorial dispute and just days after he had met US top bras ... more Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 9, 2018Pro-democracy leaders in court in Hong Kong  Beijing (AFP) Jan 4, 2018China puts Tibetan language advocate on trial for subversion  Beijing (AFP) Jan 4, 2018Migrant worker evictions tear at Beijing's backbone |
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 Lima (AFP) Jan 3, 2018 
Peru's defense minister resigned on Wednesday, becoming the second cabinet member to step down after President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski controversially pardoned former leader Alberto Fujimori, who had been incarcerated for murder and other rights abuses.
Diego Nieto's departure, confirmed to AFP by a ministry official, comes after the culture minister Salvador del Solar resigned. The head of th ... more San Francisco (AFP) Dec 23, 2017Authorities probe ex-Marine held in San Francisco terror plot: FBI  Kano, Nigeria (AFP) Dec 25, 2017Nigerian army thwarts Boko Haram attack on Maiduguri  Sydney (AFP) Dec 22, 2017Australia ends air strike campaign in Iraq and Syria |
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 Bothell WA (SPX) Nov 07, 2017 
The US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) has awarded Lockheed Martin $26.3 million for the design, development and production of a high power fiber laser. AFRL plans to test the laser on a tactical fighter jet by 2021.
The contract is part of AFRL's Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) program, and is a major step forward in the maturation of protective airborne laser systems. ... more Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2017Lockheed Martin developing technology to intercept missile threats with Directed Energy  White Sands Missile Range NM (SPX) Sep 21, 2017Upgraded Lockheed Martin Laser Outguns Threat in Half the Time Washington (UPI) Sep 20, 2017ATHENA laser testbed system successfully shoots down drones |
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