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  Fort Campbell TN (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 Researchers, roboticists, and technologists deployed swarms of autonomous air and ground vehicles to test mission capabilities in the final field experiment (FX-6) of DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program at the Cassidy Combined Arms Collective Training Facility (CACTF) in Fort Campbell, Tennessee. Since the program kicked off in 2017, OFFSET has held six field experiments with objectives of increasing complexity and difficulty. The program envisions future small-unit infantry f ... read more |
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Oculus Observatory set to disrupt space situational awareness globallyAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Dec 09, 2021 The 'Oculus Observatory' is a new kind of space observatory, designed, built, and managed by Silentium Defence, which delivers the widest field of view, and the most cost-effective monitoring of obj ... more  
Macron lays out agenda for 'powerful, sovereign' EUParis (AFP) Dec 9, 2021 President Emmanuel Macron vowed Thursday France would work towards a strong and "sovereign" European Union when it takes over the bloc's rotating presidency that coincides with France's presidential election. ... more  
Biden sends warning as 'difficult' Iran talks resumeWashington (AFP) Dec 9, 2021 President Joe Biden warned Thursday that the United States was preparing "additional measures" against Iran as expectations grow that talks on halting Tehran's nuclear program are set for failure. ... more  
US-led anti-IS coalition ends Iraq combat missionBaghdad (AFP) Dec 9, 2021 The US-led coalition against the Islamic State group has finished its combat mission in Iraq and will shift to a training and advisory role, the alliance and its host country said Thursday. ... more |
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Orbex begins construction of new rocket launchpad in the UKForres UK (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 Orbex, Europe's leading private small satellite launch services provider, has announced it has started construction of its first state-of-the-art Launch Platform, the first orbital space launchpad t ... more  
Two new satellites mark further enlargement of GalileoParis (ESA) Dec 09, 2021 Europe's largest satellite constellation has grown even bigger, following the launch of two more Galileo navigation satellites by Soyuz launcher from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on 5 Decembe ... more  
Nicaragua switches diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to ChinaManagua (AFP) Dec 10, 2021 Nicaragua inked a deal on Friday switching diplomatic allegiance from Taiwan to China in a political coup for Beijing as it seeks to isolate the democratic island it has vowed to one day seize. ... more  
China's Uyghur population control was genocide: reportLondon (AFP) Dec 9, 2021 China committed genocide in the Xinjiang region by preventing births in the Uyghur population, a London panel probing alleged human rights abuses concluded on Thursday. ... more  
Iraq holds funeral for Yazidi mass grave victims of ISKojo, Iraq (AFP) Dec 9, 2021 Incense wafted in the air as a funeral cortege made its way Thursday to a cemetery in northern Iraq for the burial of 41 Yazidis killed by jihadists and recovered from mass graves. ... more |
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Champions of press freedom to accept Nobel Peace PrizeOslo (AFP) Dec 10, 2021 She risks prison, he has buried several colleagues: Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia, two champions of the free press, will on Friday receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize honouring a profession under attack. ... more  
India defence chief's body arrives in Delhi after helicopter crashNew Delhi (AFP) Dec 9, 2021 The body of Indian defence chief General Bipin Rawat arrived in New Delhi on Thursday, one day after he and 12 others were killed in a helicopter crash near a military academy. ... more
India defence chief among 13 dead in helicopter crashCoonoor, India (AFP) Dec 8, 2021 Indian defence chief General Bipin Rawat was among 13 people killed in a helicopter crash on Wednesday, raising questions over the future of military reforms he was leading. ... more 
Biden to call NATO's Eastern Europe allies on Ukraine: W.HouseWashington (AFP) Dec 8, 2021 US President Joe Biden will call NATO's Eastern European members on Thursday to discuss his video summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin and fears of war in Ukraine, the White House said. ... more
US to decide quickly if Iran serious about nuclear talksWashington (AFP) Dec 8, 2021 The United States will swiftly determine whether Tehran is acting in "good faith" in talks about reviving the Iran nuclear accord, a State Department spokesman said Wednesday, one day before negotiations were due to resume. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 06, 2021 
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced the completion of military construction and installation of radar arrays for the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) during a ceremony declaring the initial fielding of the radar here Dec. 6.
LRDR is a multi-mission, multi-face radar with a wide field of view. Its massive arrays, each measuring 60 feet high by 60 feet wide, and advanced ga ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 08, 2021 
The South Korean Defense Ministry has unveiled a model for a hypersonic weapon prototype months after North Korea tested its own weapon. Just days ago while in South Korea, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin criticized Chinese hypersonic weapons tests for destabilizing the region.
The model for the weapon, named Hycore, was revealed on Friday by the Defense Ministry's Agency for Defense Dev ... more |
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 Fort Campbell TN (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 
Researchers, roboticists, and technologists deployed swarms of autonomous air and ground vehicles to test mission capabilities in the final field experiment (FX-6) of DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program at the Cassidy Combined Arms Collective Training Facility (CACTF) in Fort Campbell, Tennessee. Since the program kicked off in 2017, OFFSET has held six field experiments wit ... more |
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 Reston VA (SPX) Dec 06, 2021 
SES Government Solutions has announced its new Common Operational Picture (COP) platform, Hydra, built exclusively to serve the U.S. Government and military. Managed and operated in-house, Hydra is a modular web-based monitoring and control system that provides end-to-end situational awareness in a single unified operational network platform.
Hydra collects, normalizes, and organizes data ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Nov 12, 2021 
Two Russian paratroopers died during snap military drills with Belarus near its western border with EU member Poland on Friday when their parachutes malfunctioned in strong winds, the defence ministry in Moscow said.
"Despite doctors' efforts both Russian servicemen died of their wounds," the ministry said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies.
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 Stockholm (AFP) Dec 6, 2021 
The world's biggest weapons manufacturers largely avoided the economic downturn caused by Covid-19 and recorded a growth in profits last year for the sixth year in a row, according to a report published on Monday.
Governments around the world have continued to buy arms during the pandemic and some also passed measures to help their big weapons firms, according to the Stockholm International ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Dec 9, 2021 
Russia's military escorted five French and US military aircraft over the Black Sea and away from its border Thursday, it said, as tensions mounted over the conflict in Ukraine.
Its statement was released with details expected of a phone call between Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Joe Biden, who is reiterating support to Eastern European countries concerned about Russia's ... more |
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 Groningen, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 27, 2021 
It is an intuitive rule of thumb: if you reduce the density of a material, its stiffness will also be reduced. But scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US noticed that materials that are based on sandwich nanotubes retained their stiffness at lower densities.
Modelling by materials scientists from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) revealed how this ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Dec 9, 2021  The US-led coalition against the Islamic State group has finished its combat mission in Iraq and will shift to a training and advisory role, the alliance and its host country said Thursday.
The change of the mission for around 2,500 American troops stationed in the war-battered country by the end of the year was first announced by US President Joe Biden in July when he hosted Iraqi Prime Min ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 9, 2021 
President Joe Biden warned Thursday that the United States was preparing "additional measures" against Iran as expectations grow that talks on halting Tehran's nuclear program are set for failure.
"The president has asked his team to be prepared in the event that diplomacy fails and we must turn to other options," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said as troubled negotiations with Iran ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 10, 2021 
Debt-crippled Chinese property giant Evergrande looks headed for a huge restructuring after it defaulted on $1.2 billion in bond repayments and remains mired in further liabilities worth more than $300 billion.
What would a restructuring mean for creditors, homeowners and investors?
- Who gets priority? -
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) Dec 9, 2021 
Niger called Thursday for a UN resolution formally linking climate change and security issues around the world but Russia, China and India opposed the idea.
President Mohamed Bazoum made the appeal at a meeting of the council, where his country holds the presidency in December.
Niger hopes for a vote on a draft resolution that asks UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "to integrate clim ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 08, 2021 
A special lecture will begin at 3:40 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday, given by the three Shenzhou-13 crew members aboard China's space station, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced on Monday.
The three astronauts, namely Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu, will interact with students on Earth. The primary ground classroom will be at the China Science and Technology Museum. ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 9, 2021 
Jailed Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai was among three democracy campaigners convicted on Thursday for taking part in a banned Tiananmen vigil as the prosecution of multiple activists came to a conclusion.
Lai, the 74-year-old owner of the now-shuttered pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper, was found guilty of unlawful assembly charges alongside former journalist Gwyneth Ho and prominent righ ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Dec 8, 2021 
Iraqi authorities Wednesday repatriated 100 Iraqi fighters from the Islamic State jihadist group who were being held by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria, a senior Iraqi security official said.
"This morning we collected 100 terrorists" held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters in Syria, General Abdul Amir al-Shammari told AFP.
The jihadists "h ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Nov 04, 2021 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate is partnering with The University of New Mexico (UNM) to establish a center for directed energy studies, a congressionally-funded endeavor.
The Directed Energy Center will be based at UNM and jointly managed by UNM's School of Engineering and UNM's Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM). AFRL is recognized as the nation's ... more |
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