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  Moscow (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that a scientific breakthrough was a key priority for Russia as the country struggles with increasing international isolation and a brain drain. "We have placed the scientific technological breakthrough among our key national goals and priorities," Putin said at a tech forum in Siberia's main city Novosibirsk. "I am convinced that we are able to accomplish this by uniting the efforts of the state, businesses and the scientific educational community while exp ... read more |
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NKorea still 'serious and imminent threat': JapanTokyo (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 North Korea still poses a "serious and imminent threat", Japan said Tuesday in its first annual defence review since tensions eased on the Korean peninsula. ... more 
Iran fights US sanctions at UN courtThe Hague (AFP) Aug 27, 2018 Iran demanded Monday that the UN's top court order the United States to suspend nuclear-linked sanctions against Tehran, but Washington vowed to "vigorously" fend off the legal challenge. ... more  
US Marines test laser communication system to beat radio jammersWashington DC (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2018 One of the US Defense Department's top research agencies has been testing a new communication network that one researcher described as "basically fiber optic communications without the fiber." ... more  
Russia to hold biggest military drills since Cold WarMoscow (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 Russia will next month hold its biggest war games since at least the 1980s, with around 300,000 troops and 1,000 aircraft, the defence minister said Tuesday. ... more |
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Activists urge killer robot ban 'before it is too late'Geneva (AFP) Aug 27, 2018 Countries should quickly agree a treaty banning the use of so-called killer robots "before it is too late", activists said Monday as talks on the issue resumed at the UN. ... more  
Russia Restores Defunct Soviet Network to Monitor Near-Earth ObjectsMoscow (Sputnik) Aug 27, 2018 Russia has restored a global network of mothballed Soviet observatories to monitor near-Earth objects, according to a report by a state research institute. The document, obtained by Sputnik fr ... more  
China launches new twin BeiDou navigation satellitesXichang (XNA) Aug 27, 2018 China on Saturday successfully sent twin BeiDou navigation satellites into space on a single carrier rocket. The Long March-3B carrier rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in ... more  
Interns create dynamic visualization of NASA's space-to-ground communications resourcesGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 For the first time ever, people worldwide can get an inside look into what it takes to enable communications for nearly 40 NASA missions, thanks to a small team of college students. NASA's Nea ... more 
Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Powers OSIRIS-REx's Approach of Asteroid BennuRedmond WA (SPX) Aug 27, 2018 Powered by Aerojet Rocketdyne propulsion, OSIRIS-REx's long-awaited approach of Asteroid Bennu has officially begun. With the asteroid now in sight, the spacecraft's onboard thrusters will begin to ... more |
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 Successful capital raising sees Kleos Space Launch on the ASX 
Heat shield install brings Orion spacecraft closer to spaceKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 During Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), an uncrewed Orion spacecraft will launch atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket and begin a three-week voyage in space, taking it about 40,000 miles beyond the M ... more  |
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UN probe reports possible 'war crimes' by all sides in Yemen conflictGeneva (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 All sides in Yemen's bloody conflict may have committed war crimes, UN investigators said Tuesday, highlighting deadly air strikes, rampant sexual violence, and the recruitment of young children as soldiers. ... more 
Intense air strikes target airport in Yemen capitalSanaa (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 Heavy air strikes targeted the international airport in Yemen's rebel-held capital and an adjacent airbase early Tuesday, residents said, with rebels blaming the Saudi-led coalition fighting on the side of the government. ... more  
Iraq new parliament to meet, paving way for governmentBaghdad (AFP) Aug 27, 2018 Iraq's parliament will meet next week for its first session since May elections to choose a speaker and begin the process of forming a government, the outgoing president said Monday. ... more 
Iran defence minister in Damascus, says will help rebuild SyriaDamascus (AFP) Aug 26, 2018 Iran's top defence official met Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and its defence minister on Sunday in Damascus, hailing their strong ties and pledging to contribute to the war-torn country's reconstruction. ... more 
China slams 'irresponsible' Trump accusations over N. KoreaBeijing (AFP) Aug 25, 2018 China on Saturday called Donald Trump "irresponsible" after the US president cancelled his top diplomat's trip to North Korea and suggested Beijing was stalling efforts to disarm Pyongyang. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 16, 2018 
TOTE Services of Jacksonville, Fla., has received an $11 million contract for operation and maintenance of the Sea-Based X-Band Radar vessel.
The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, will last one year with four-and-a-half years worth of possible options, which could bring the cumulative value of this contract to $65.3 million, the Pentagon said.
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 
Raytheon and Lockheed Martin's Javelin joint venture company has received a $14 million contract modification for Javelin Weapon System modernization.
Work on the contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in Tucson, Ariz., with an estimated completion date of September 2020. Army fiscal 2017 and 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funds in ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has been awarded a contract for $123 million for the French 3rd/4th Systems MQ-9 Block 5 program.
Work on the contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in Poway, Calif., and is expected to be completed by May 2020. The program falls under a foreign military sale to France.
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 23, 2018 
Northrop Grumman Corporation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have developed a wireless transmission data link that can transmit 100 gigabits per second over more than 12 miles in a urban area.
The two-way data-link which features active tacking was tested in Los Angeles last January, Northrop Grumman announced on Tuesday. The link's transmission speed can vary from 9g ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 22, 2018 
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency received its first order of precision-guided munitions acquired through a NATO program involving 11 members and partners.
The PGMs are manufactured in the United States and will be delivered to Belgium and Denmark in the next several weeks, NATO announced on Wednesday. The value of the initial order is $20 million.
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 18, 2018 
The bomb that killed 40 children and 11 others in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a bus in rebel-held northern Yemen was sold by the United States under a State Department deal with Riyadh, CNN has reported.
The numbers on shrapnel, of which images were taken shortly after the attack this month, indicate that it was a laser-guided Mk 82 bomb manufactured by defense contractor Lockheed Ma ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2018  The United States on Thursday accused China of destabilizing cross-Strait relations following the announcement this week that El Salvador would end diplomatic ties with Taipei in favor of Beijing.
"The United States will continue to oppose China's destabilization of the cross-Strait relationship and political interference in the Western Hemisphere," the White House said in a statement.
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 Houston TX (SPX) Aug 27, 2018 
First, according to Rice University engineers, get a nanotube hole. Then insert water. If the nanotube is just the right width, the water molecules will align into a square rod.
Rice materials scientist Rouzbeh Shahsavari and his team used molecular models to demonstrate their theory that weak van der Waals forces between the inner surface of the nanotube and the water molecules are strong ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Aug 27, 2018 
Iraq's parliament will meet next week for its first session since May elections to choose a speaker and begin the process of forming a government, the outgoing president said Monday.
The inaugural session of the 329-seat chamber would be chaired by its oldest member, President Fuad Massum said in a decree calling for the sitting to take place on September 3.
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2018 
US President Donald Trump on Friday pulled the plug on his top diplomat's upcoming trip to North Korea - and took a swipe at China over stalled efforts to disarm Kim Jong Un's regime.
"I have asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to go to North Korea, at this time, because I feel we are not making sufficient progress with respect to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," Trump sa ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 
U.S. President Trump is admired for fulfilling campaign promises, but some of those actions are harming his own ambitions on energy, a trade group said.
On the campaign trail, Trump promised to "use every tool under American and international law to end these (trade) abuses." Nearly two years into his term, he's made good on that pledge by targeting North American, European and Chinese ... more |
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 Kochi, India (AFP) Aug 23, 2018 
Leaders of flood-stricken Kerala state angrily hit out at India's national government Thursday for rejecting a $100 million aid offer from the United Arab Emirates as more people entered relief camps to escape the devastation.
More than 1.3 million people have now packed into temporary camps even though the floods, which have left at least 420 dead and missing, are fast receding.
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 17, 2018 
China's moon lander and rover for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land on the far side of the moon this year, was unveiled Wednesday.
Images displayed at Wednesday's press conference showed the rover was a rectangular box with two foldable solar panels and six wheels. It is 1.5 meters long, 1 meter wide and 1.1 meters high.
Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China's lun ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 27, 2018 
A Hong Kong pro-democracy group led by high-profile activist Joshua Wong said Monday two of its members had been detained and questioned in mainland China.
The pair were released within hours but were warned not to publicise their experiences, the Demosisto party said in a statement.
Hong Kong has rights unseen on the mainland but concerns are growing that those liberties are under serio ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 23, 2018  Dramatically weakened on the ground, the Islamic State group faces military defeat in its one-time "caliphate" - but experts say it is almost impossible to know how many members it still has.
Online, IS propaganda claims it is undefeated in what's left of its territory - a small patch of eastern Syria - which is a fraction of the land it once controlled spanning the war-wracked country an ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 07, 2018 
The U.S. Army awarded Dynetics, Lockheed Martin and its partners a $10 million contract to continue development for the next phase of the High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstrator (HEL TVD) program, a 100-kilowatt class laser weapon system.
Laser weapons are ideally suited to address high volume, low cost threats because of their inexpensive cost per shot and deep magazine. Team Dyne ... more |
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