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  Beijing (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 China's Communist Party has handed President Xi Jinping an open path to indefinite rule - a move analysts warn carries enormous risks by abandoning a succession model that brought stability after turbulent decades under Mao. Xi, who has concentrated power, accumulated titles and purged potential rivals since becoming head of state in 2013, could remain president for life after the party proposed abolishing a rule limiting the top leader to two five-year terms. But giving all the levers of power ... read more |
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Russia hacked Olympics computers, turned blame on N Korea: reportWashington (AFP) Feb 25, 2018 Russian military spies hacked hundreds of computers used by Winter Olympics organizers and tried to make it look like the work of North Korea, the Washington Post reported Sunday, quoting US intelligence sources. ... more  
Iran's eastern shift shows patience running out with the WestTehran (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 Iran's supreme leader has signalled a decisive shift in favour of relations with China and Russia, indicating that patience is running out with efforts to improve ties with the West. ... more 
N. Korea slams latest US sanctions as 'act of war'Seoul (AFP) Feb 25, 2018 North Korea on Sunday slammed the latest US measures against it as an "act of war", after US President Donald Trump announced the "heaviest sanctions ever" on the nuclear-armed regime. ... more 
UN faces rival drafts on Iran missiles to YemenUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 25, 2018 The UN Security Council on Sunday was considering two draft resolutions on Yemen after Russia put forward a rival text aimed at blocking action against Iran over missiles sent to the country's Huthi rebels. ... more |
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Taiwan seeks 'new phase' of China ties in reshuffleTaipei (AFP) Feb 23, 2018 Taiwan replaced its China affairs chief Friday, promoting a minister associated with pro-independence politics in what it said was a bid to forge a "new phase" in relations with rival Beijing. ... more  
Strikes on east Syria's last IS pocket kill 25 civiliansBeirut (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 Air strikes on the last pocket of Islamic State jihadists in eastern Syria have killed at least 25 civilians, including seven children, a monitor said on Monday. ... more 
Syria's Ghouta reels from strikes, clashes despite ceasefire callDouma, Syria (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 Desperate civilians trapped in one of the most ferocious assaults of Syria's civil war awaited aid and medical help Monday after regime air strikes pounded rebel-held Eastern Ghouta despite UN ceasefire demands. ... more 
Relatives protest visit by N. Korea general blamed for warship sinkingSeoul (AFP) Feb 24, 2018 Angry relatives of sailors killed in the 2010 sinking of a South Korean warship protested Saturday against the impending visit to the Winter Olympics of a North Korean general blamed for the attack. ... more 
US seeks UN ban on 33 ships, 27 firms over North Korea smugglingUnited Nations (AFP) Feb 24, 2018 The United States is seeking to have the United Nations ban 33 vessels from ports worldwide and blacklist 27 shipping businesses for helping North Korea circumvent sanctions. ... more |
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Trump announces 'heaviest ever' sanctions on North KoreaWashington (AFP) Feb 24, 2018 US President Donald Trump has rolled out fresh sanctions against North Korea-linked shipping assets, hailing the package as the "heaviest sanctions ever" levied on the Pyongyang regime. ... more  |
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Beijing protests US sanctions on Chinese firms over N. Korea tiesBeijing (AFP) Feb 25, 2018 Beijing has protested against Washington's decision to impose sanctions against Chinese companies accused of conducting illicit economic deals with North Korea, the foreign ministry said. ... more 
EU's Tusk warns Poland against 'anti-semitic excesses'Brussels (AFP) Feb 23, 2018 EU President Donald Tusk warned Poland on Friday against "anti-semitic excesses" and other behaviour that risked ruining Warsaw's global standing. ... more  
Northrop Grumman gets production, support contracts for E-2D HawkeyeWashington (UPI) Feb 23, 2018 Northrop Grumman has been awarded two contracts for production and support on the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye program. ... more  
United Technologies Aerospace Systems awarded $2.5B for spare partsWashington (UPI) Feb 22, 2018 United Technologies Aerospace Systems was awarded $2.5 billion for aviation-related spare parts and related services. ... more 
Iran sticking to nuclear deal: UN watchdogVienna (AFP) Feb 22, 2018 Iran is still sticking to the 2015 nuclear accord, a UN atomic watchdog report showed Thursday, four months ahead of US President Donald Trump's deadline to fix its "disastrous flaws". ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 20, 2018 
The United States and Israel successfully tested the Arrow 3 weapons system to defend against ballistic missiles.
Israel Aerospace Industries, in collaboration with the Israeli air force and the United States' Missile Defense Agency, conducted the test at 2:30 a.m. Monday at an unidentified site in central Israel, the U.S. Defense Department said in a release.
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 22, 2018 
The U.S. State Department on Wednesday said it has approved a possible foreign military sale to Sweden of Patriot Configuration-3 Modernized Fire Units.
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of the possible $3.2 billion sale, for which Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are the primary contractors.
The possible foreign military sale would provide Sweden with four Pa ... more |
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 Calgary, Canada (SPX) Feb 21, 2018 
Lockheed Martin software has been simultaneously flying, on average, at least six unmanned aircraft during every hour of the last 25 years, completing missions as diverse as reconnaisance, inspection, mapping and targeting. Today, Lockheed Martin is launching VCSi, a new vehicle control software, as the culmination of more than two decades of experience and 1.5 million hours of operational use. ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Feb 23, 2018 
High-throughput satellite (HTS) constellations have quickly become transformative technology for satellite communications, far surpassing the bandwidth speed and throughput possible with existing satellite communications.
Earlier this month SatCom Frontier published a story explaining the difference between open vs. closed HTS architecture. Open architecture systems give government end use ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Feb 22, 2018 
Russia has tested over 200 new types of arms in Syria during its campaign in support of President Bashar al-Assad, a senior lawmaker said Thursday, as Moscow was accused of taking part in air strikes against rebel-held Eastern Ghouta.
"As we helped the brotherly Syrian people, we tested over 200 new types of weapons," said Vladimir Shamanov, a former commander of Russia's airborne troops who ... more |
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 London (AFP) Feb 22, 2018  BAE Systems, the British maker of military equipment, announced a drop in annual net profit on Thursday but said it expected government defence spending to remain a priority.
Profit after tax dropped 6.5 percent to Pounds 854 million ($1.19 billion, 967 million euros) in 2017 compared with a year earlier, with the group hit by a sizeable impairment linked to its cyber security unit, BAE said in an ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Feb 23, 2018 
EU President Donald Tusk warned Poland on Friday against "anti-semitic excesses" and other behaviour that risked ruining Warsaw's global standing.
Tusk, a former Polish premier, said he had told Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels that negative opinions about Warsaw were turning into a "tsunami".
"I told Mr Morowiecki that the situation i ... more |
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 Onna, Japan (SPX) Feb 26, 2018  A small rectangle of pink glass, about the size of a postage stamp, sits on Professor Amy Shen's desk. Despite its outwardly modest appearance, this little glass slide has the potential to revolutionize a wide range of processes, from monitoring food quality to diagnosing diseases.
The slide is made of a 'nanoplasmonic' material - its surface is coated in millions of gold nanostructures, e ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Feb 23, 2018 
Farida Abbas Khalaf, one of thousands of Yazidi women abducted, raped and brutalised by Islamic State group fighters, says the jihadists' departure has not made it safe to return to Iraq.
"Everything is still the same. The same people who joined (IS) are still in those neighbourhoods. How can we return and trust them again?" Khalaf said in an interview with AFP this week.
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 24, 2018  US President Donald Trump has rolled out fresh sanctions against North Korea-linked shipping assets, hailing the package as the "heaviest sanctions ever" levied on the Pyongyang regime.
Trump used a speech to conservatives just outside Washington to step up his campaign of "maximum pressure" designed to force North Korea to roll back its weapons programs.
"We imposed today the heaviest s ... more |
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 London (AFP) Feb 20, 2018  Profits at HSBC surged during 2017, in part thanks to a strong Asian performance, the global banking giant said Tuesday as it looks to the future without long-serving chief executive Stuart Gulliver.
Net profit ballooned to $9.7 billion (7.9 billion euros) last year, from $1.3 billion in 2016 when the Asia-focused bank was hit by huge restructuring charges and writedowns.
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 Bras�lia (AFP) Feb 21, 2018 
Brazil's Senate overwhelmingly approved the army's takeover of security in Rio de Janeiro following a breakdown of law and order in drug-ravaged neighborhoods.
Despite criticism that the military intervention could lead to violations of constitutional rights, while also failing to address the causes of the urban violence, the Senate voted late Tuesday by 55 to 13, with one abstention, in fav ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 26, 2018 
China will accelerate research and commercial use of rocket upper stages, a carrier rocket official said on Friday.
"The Yuanzheng rocket upper stage family will have a new member, Yuanzheng-1S, this year, serving launches for low and medium Earth orbit satellites," said Wang Mingzhe, an upper stage architect of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
Upper stages are ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 22, 2018 
Chinese authorities have ruled out arson as the cause of a recent fire at Tibetan Buddhism's holiest temple, state media reported Thursday, adding an important Buddha statue had emerged "intact" from the blaze.
The report is the first official account of Saturday's fire at the more than 1,300-year-old Jokhang Temple, after authorities suppressed social media accounts of the incident, leadin ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Feb 18, 2018 
A court in the Iraqi capital on Sunday sentenced to death a Turkish woman and 11 other foreign widows to life in jail for belonging to the Islamic State group.
The 12 women, 11 Turks and an Azeri, some of whom appeared in the dock nursing infants, were convicted despite their pleas that they had been duped or forced by their husbands to join them in Iraq.
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 29, 2018  Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for the Surface Navy Laser Weapon System.
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $150 million under the terms of a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract.
The contract taps Lockheed Martin's Aculight Corp. to develop, manufacture and deliver two test units in fiscal 2020 - one uni ... more |
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