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  Seoul (AFP) June 4, 2018 Seoul is monitoring developments in the North's military, it said Monday after reports Pyongyang replaced three of its top military officials ahead of a summit with the United States. President Donald Trump is due to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12 in Singapore with Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal high on the agenda and reports said that the reshuffle could be aimed at taming the military. Late last month the North's state media revealed that Kim Su Gil had been appointed as dir ... read more |
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Netanyahu heads to Europe seeking about-face on IranBerlin (AFP) June 4, 2018 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embarks Monday on a three-day European tour in Germany set to be dominated by strategic differences on Iran, as leaders attempt to rescue the nuclear deal after US withdrawal. ... more  
Saudi warns of military action if Qatar gets Russian missiles: reportParis (AFP) June 2, 2018 Saudi Arabia has threatened military action against Qatar if it goes ahead and acquires Russia's top of the range S-400 air defence missile system, Le Monde daily reported. ... more  
Mattis accuses China of S. China Sea 'intimidation and coercion'Singapore (AFP) June 2, 2018 China's military build-up in the South China Sea and its deployment of high-end weapons systems in the disputed waters is designed to intimidate and coerce neighbours, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Saturday. ... more 
US Army launches war games on NATO's eastern flankVilnius (AFP) June 3, 2018 Some 18,000 troops from 19 mostly NATO countries began annual US-led military exercises in Poland and the Baltic states on Sunday to boost combat readiness on the alliance's eastern flank as it faces an increasingly assertive Russia. ... more |
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Modi calls for 'equal access' to shared maritime areaSingapore (AFP) June 1, 2018 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Friday for countries to have "equal access" to shared maritime and air spaces, and for regional disputes to be settled under international law. ... more  
Arianespace and ISIS to launch small satellites on the Vega SSMS POC flightParis, France (SPX) Jun 01, 2018 Arianespace reports that ISIS - Innovative Solutions In Space - has joined the group of customers who have signed contracts to launch payloads on Vega's Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) Proof ... more  
Space Traffic Management - Oversight, Licensing And EnforcementBethesda, MD (SPX) Jun 01, 2018 Soon, another 10,000 new satellites will be launched into the most congested space in the universe. There are already an estimated 100 trillion objects in low-earth orbits, most of these things are ... more  
Russian State Space Giant Roscosmos May Curb Space Program Due to Lack of FundsMoscow (Sputnik) May 31, 2018 The Russian federal space program might face cuts as the Roscosmos state corporation is likely to suffer funding shortages amounting to 150 billion rubles (almost $2.4 billion) in the next three yea ... more 
Commercial satellite launch service market to grow strongly through 2024Selbyville DE (SPX) Jun 01, 2018 According to a new research report by the market research and strategy consulting firm, Global Market Insights, Inc, the Commercial Satellite Launch Service Market to hit $7bn by 2024. Increas ... more |
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Iraq issues arrest warrant for Kurdish referendum leaderKirkuk, Iraq (AFP) June 3, 2018 Iraqi judicial authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a Kurdish politician at the centre of last year's failed independence bid, a source from within the provincial administration said Sunday. ... more  |
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Iraq court sentences French woman to life for IS membershipBaghdad (AFP) June 3, 2018 An Iraqi court on Sunday jailed a French woman for 20 years for belonging to the Islamic State group, as her lawyers accused authorities in Paris of "interference" to prevent her returning to France. ... more  
US-led anti-IS coalition admits 9 more civilian deathsWashington (AFP) June 1, 2018 The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq acknowledged Friday the deaths of another nine civilians, increasing the toll of non-fighters killed to at least 892. ... more 
Czech MPs up quota for army missions abroadPrague (AFP) June 1, 2018 Czech lawmakers on Friday raised the quota for army missions deployed by the EU and NATO member abroad including Afghanistan, Iraq, Mali and the Baltic states, but final approval for the deployments could fail due to opposition from the Communists. ... more 
Kim says committed to denuclearisation of Korean peninsula: KCNASeoul (AFP) May 31, 2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov he was committed to denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, the official KCNA news agency reported Friday. ... more 
NATO tells Russia to stop meddling, in first talks since Skripal caseBrussels (AFP) May 31, 2018 NATO told Russia to put a stop to its "malign activities" against the alliance as the two sides met Thursday for their first political talks since the nerve agent attack on a former Kremlin double agent in Britain. ... more |
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 Riyadh (AFP) May 25, 2018 
Saudi air defences on Friday intercepted a ballistic missile over the southern city of Najran after it was fired from rebel-held territory in neighbouring Yemen, a Saudi-led military coalition said.
Debris from the missile landed in residential areas of Najran without causing casualties, coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency.
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 Washington (UPI) May 31, 2018 
Boeing has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense for cruise missiles.
The contract, from the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center and valued at more than $17.2 million, comes under the terms of a fixed-price, definitive contract that enables Boeing to provide "Conventional Air-Launched Cruise Missile/Air-Launched Cruise Missile Test Instrument Kit," according to the Pentagon. ... more |
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 Marseille, France (SPX) Jun 01, 2018 
Marking a world first, researchers from the Etienne Jules Marey Institute of Movement Sciences (CNRS / Aix-Marseille Universite) have drawn inspiration from birds to design an aerial robot capable of altering its profile during flight. To reduce its wingspan and navigate through tight spaces, it can reorient its arms, which are equipped with propellers that let it fly like a helicopter.
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 Sunnyvale CA (SPX) May 22, 2018 
Lockheed Martin recently put its fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-5) satellite through its paces in realistic simulations of its future launch experience. The satellite completed the tests successfully and is now in system-level testing in preparation for delivery to the U.S. Air Force in 2019.
For the 39 days of Thermal Vacuum Chamber (TVAC) testing, AEHF-5 was subjected to e ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 29, 2018  Oshkosh Defense has been awarded a contract for services in support of medium tactical vehicles.
The contract, from Marine Corps Systems Command, is valued at more than $43.2 million under the terms of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract. The deal enables Oshkosh Defense to provide engineering change proposal kits, parts and hardware components to support the medium tac ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 30, 2018 
Mack Defense has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense for heavy-load dump trucks.
The contract, from U.S. Army Contracting Command and announced on Tuesday, is valued at more than $296.4 million under the terms of a 7-year firm-fixed-price contract that enables Mack Defense to provide 683 M917A3 armored heavy-load dump trucks, according to the Pentagon.
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 Vilnius (AFP) June 3, 2018 
Some 18,000 troops from 19 mostly NATO countries began annual US-led military exercises in Poland and the Baltic states on Sunday to boost combat readiness on the alliance's eastern flank as it faces an increasingly assertive Russia.
The eighth Saber Strike manoeuvres, which run until June 15, come after it was revealed Poland is considering a proposal to welcome a permanent deployment of US ... more |
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 Ulsan, Korea (SPX) May 29, 2018 
An international team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has discovered a novel method for the synthesis of ultrathin semiconductors. This is a unique growth mechanism, which yielded nanoscopic semiconductor ribbons that are only a few atoms thick.
This breakthrough has been jointly conducted by Distinguished Professor Feng Ding and Dr. Wen Zhao from the Center for Multidimensional Carb ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) June 3, 2018 
An Iraqi court on Sunday jailed a French woman for 20 years for belonging to the Islamic State group, as her lawyers accused authorities in Paris of "interference" to prevent her returning to France.
Melina Boughedir, a mother of four, was sentenced last February to seven months in prison for "illegal" entry into the country, and was set to be deported back to France.
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 Seoul (AFP) May 31, 2018  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov he was committed to denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, the official KCNA news agency reported Friday.
"Kim Jong Un said that the DPRK's will for denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula still remains unchanged and consistent and fixed," KCNA reported after their meeting in Pyongyang on Thursday.
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 Brussels (AFP) May 31, 2018 
Inflation in the eurozone leaped to the ECB's target in May, data showed on Thursday, fuelled by a huge increase in oil prices as the US decided to pull out of a nuclear deal with Iran.
The EU's statistics authority, Eurostat, said inflation in the eurozone jumped to 1.9 percent in May, a sharp pick-up from the 1.2 percent recorded in April.
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 Paris (ESA) May 30, 2018 
In what the UN describes as the world's fastest growing refugee crisis, almost 700 000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar for neighbouring Bangladesh since August 2017. With the Bangladesh government proposing a vulnerable low-lying island as a relocation site for thousands, Sentinel-1 data have shown how unsuitable this site would be.
While the Rohingya have faced decades of repression, t ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 30, 2018 
Beijing is open to other UN nations using the Chinese space station on an equal basis, Shi Zhongjun, China's ambassador to the United Nations and other international organizations in Vienna, said Monday.
"CSS belongs not only to China, but also to the world ... All [UN] countries, regardless of their size and level of development, can participate in the cooperation on an equal footing," Sh ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) May 31, 2018 
Nine protesters were jailed in Hong Kong Thursday after being found guilty of rioting during the "Fishball Revolution" clashes with police two years ago, the latest in a series of legal actions against demonstrators.
Aged from their late teens to over 70 years old, they were handed sentences ranging from 28 months to over four years for their involvement in the city's worst violence for deca ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) May 13, 2018 
Investigators on Sunday were probing the background of a 20-year-old Frenchman born in Chechnya who killed one man and wounded four other people during a stabbing spree in central Paris, for which the Islamic State group claimed responsibility.
The Saturday night attack in a lively area of theatres and restaurants near the city's historic opera house was the latest in a series of apparent Is ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 19, 2018 
The US Air Force will this summer begin testing a laser that will be mounted on an F-15 warplane, an official said Monday.
The Pentagon last year awarded a $26 million contract to Lockheed Martin for a laser program called SHiELD (Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator.)
The idea is to put a laser system on aircraft with an output of about 50 kilowatts to test their ability to zap ... more |
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