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  Fairfax VA (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 TEOCO has launched AirborneU, a Service Enablement Platform for unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs). Designed to support the next generation of IoT Services delivered via drones, the platform combines Airspace, Radio-Signal-Space (3D radio coverage), environmental data (wind and weather), as well as cost and regulatory information to enable, optimize and operate autonomous flight plans and missions. Autonomous UAV operation requires 3D radio connectivity for command and control, communication, aut ... read more |
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France to block Chinese group taking control of Toulouse airportParis (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 The French government will not sell a 10 percent stake in the Toulouse airport in southern France to a Chinese consortium, a deal that would have given it majority control of the fast-growing transport hub, a government source said Monday. ... more  
China drowns out critics of lifetime Xi presidencyBeijing (AFP) Feb 27, 2018 China's propaganda machine kicked into overdrive on Tuesday to defend the Communist Party's move to lift term limits for President Xi Jinping as criticism persisted on social media in defiance of censorship. ... more  
UN chief calls for renewed disarmament pushGeneva (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 The UN secretary-general launched Monday what he termed "a new initiative" to revitalise global disarmament, warning that surging arms sales and rising nuclear tensions required a renewed effort towards containing deadly weapons. ... more  
Russia vetoes Western bid at UN to pressure Iran over YemenUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 Russia vetoed Monday a UN draft resolution presented by Britain and strongly backed by the United States that would have pressured Iran over its failure to block supplies of missiles to Yemen's Huthi rebels. ... more |
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Microsoft data warrant case in top US court has global implicationsWashington (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 Microsoft faces off with the US government before the Supreme Court Tuesday over a warrant for data stored abroad that has important ramifications for law enforcement in the age of global computing. ... more  
Army awards AM General $11.8M for 60 HumveesWashington (UPI) Feb 26, 2018 AM General was awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to procure 60 M1167 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles or HMMWV. ... more  
Taiwan military veterans clash with police in pension protestTaipei (AFP) Feb 27, 2018 Protesters including senior military veterans pushed down a gate to Taiwan's parliament building Tuesday and clashed with police as they tried to storm in over pension cutbacks. ... more  
Navy christens expeditionary fast transport USNS BurlingtonWashington (UPI) Feb 26, 2018 The U.S. Navy has christened U.S. Naval Ship Burlington, its newest Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport. ... more 
Pummeled civilians in Syria enclave await Russia's first daily truceDouma, Syria (AFP) Feb 27, 2018 The battered residents of Syria's Eastern Ghouta rebel enclave were waiting Tuesday morning for the start of a "humanitarian pause" announced by Russia after days of carnage wrought by artillery and air strikes. ... more |
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 Families of IS suspects in Iraq face 'collective punishment': HRW 
Polish Holocaust rescuers urge dialogue with Israel amid rowWarsaw (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 Some of the last surviving Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust called for dialogue and reconciliation between Poland and Israel on Monday, amid an unprecedented row over a law making it illegal to attribute Nazi crimes to the Polish state. ... more  |
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Iraq extends air blockade of Kurdistan by three monthsArbil, Iraq (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 Iraq has extended by three months a ban on international flights to the autonomous Kurdish region, a senior official at Arbil airport in the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan said on Monday. ... more  
Iraq condemns 15 Turkish women to death for belonging to ISBaghdad (AFP) Feb 25, 2018 An Iraqi criminal court on Sunday sentenced to death 15 Turkish women after finding them guilty of belonging to the Islamic State group, a judicial official said. ... more 
France says it foiled two terror attacks this yearParis (AFP) Feb 25, 2018 France has foiled two terror attacks this year targeting a leading sports team and the armed forces, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said Sunday. ... more 
'Emperor Xi'? -- China gambles on return to lifetime ruleBeijing (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. ... more 
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 |
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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 23, 2018 
Raytheon and Lockheed Martin were awarded a contract under a foreign military sale for the delivery of Javelin weapon systems.
The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $94.8 million under a modified contract.
The contract would provide the countries of France, Taiwan, Jordan, Qatar, Turkey and Lithuania with Javelin weapon systems, rounds, ... more |
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 Fairfax VA (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 
TEOCO has launched AirborneU, a Service Enablement Platform for unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs). Designed to support the next generation of IoT Services delivered via drones, the platform combines Airspace, Radio-Signal-Space (3D radio coverage), environmental data (wind and weather), as well as cost and regulatory information to enable, optimize and operate autonomous flight plans and missi ... more |
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 Portsmouth, United Kingdom (AFP) Feb 27, 2018 
British astronaut Tim Peake on Monday hailed a "groundbreaking" satellite being built by Airbus which its developers say will bring an unprecedented level of flexibility to space telecommunications.
The Eutelsat Quantum satellite is being put together by the multinational company in Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, where it was unveiled Monday ahead of transfer to France for testin ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 26, 2018 
AM General was awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to procure 60 M1167 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles or HMMWV.
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $11.8 million under a modified contract.
The HMMWV, or what is commonly known as the Humvee, is a four-wheel drive military light truck that has been regularly produced since 19 ... 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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 Saint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 
Nanoscale light sources and nanoantennas already found a wide range of applications in several areas, such as ultra compact pixels, optical detection or telecommunications. However, the fabrication of nanostructure-based devices is rather complicated since the materials typically used have a limited luminescence efficiency. What is more, single quantum dots or molecules usually emit light non-di ... 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.
"Who will guara ... more |
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 Tehran (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.
One of the most popular slogans during the 1979 revolution was "Neither East nor West", a defiant vow that Iran would no longer favour either of the world's major forces at the time - American-style capitalism ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 23, 2018  Donald Trump papered over superpower rivalries with China on Friday, saying relations had never been better but trade was a major problem.
"I don't think we've ever had a better relationship with China than we do right now," Trump said, using trademark hyperbole.
"Other than the fact that they've been killing us on trade for the last long period of time. Killing us."
Trump regularl ... more |
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 Georgetown, Guyana (AFP) Feb 25, 2018 
Antigua and Barbuda, a hurricane-ravaged Caribbean tourist destination, will go to the polls next month more than a year earlier than scheduled, the prime minister said on Saturday.
The two-island nation's parliamentary elections were scheduled for June 2019, but will now be held on March 21, Gaston Browne said.
Voters will select the 17 members of Antigua and Barbuda's House of Represen ... 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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 Paris (AFP) Feb 25, 2018 
France has foiled two terror attacks this year targeting a leading sports team and the armed forces, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said Sunday.
Paris is still on its highest level of alert after a string of Islamist attacks over the last three years.
"Since January 1, we have foiled two planned attacks which had not been totally finalised but a number of people were in the process of ... more |
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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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