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  Seoul (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the successful test of a hypersonic missile, state media reported Wednesday, the second such launch by the nuclear-armed nation in less than a week. The missile carrying a "hypersonic gliding vehicle" hit "the set target in waters 1,000 km" away, the official Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) said. Photographs posted on the website of Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the ruling Workers' Party, showed Kim Jong Un wearing a long black leat ... read more |
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North Korea's Kim urges more 'military muscle' after hypersonic missile testSeoul (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the successful test of a hypersonic missile, state media said Wednesday, and urged North Korea to press ahead with building more "strategic military muscle" despite international sanctions over its nuclear weapons programme. ... more 
A look at how countries go nuclear - and why some do notBoston MA (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 In 1993, South Africa announced to a largely surprised world that it had built nuclear weapons in the 1980s, before dismantling its arsenal. For the first time, a country outside of the elite world ... more  
Russia has no 'voting right' on Ukraine's NATO membership: KyivKyiv (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Tuesday that Russia had no say over whether Ukraine could join NATO, a topic at the centre of high-stakes talks between the West and Russia this week. ... more 
Iran nuclear talks proceeding too slowly, says FranceParis (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 International negotiations on Iran's nuclear activities are proceeding so slowly that they are unlikely to lead to any agreement "within a realistic timeframe," France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Tuesday. ... more |
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Moscow says Russia-NATO talks are 'moment of truth'Moscow (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 Moscow said Tuesday that ties between Russia and NATO had reached a "moment of truth" ahead of high-stakes talks over Ukraine and security demands from the Kremlin. ... more 
North Korea says it tested hypersonic missileSeoul (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the successful test of a hypersonic missile, state media reported Wednesday, the second such launch by the nuclear-armed nation in less than a week. ... more  
HawkEye 360 awarded $15.5M contract with Air Force Research LaboratoryHerndon VA (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 HawkEye 360 Inc., the world's leading commercial provider of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, has announced it has been awarded a three year, $15.5 million Experimental Purpose A ... more  
Live demonstration for cyber resilienceParis (ESA) Jan 12, 2022 Applications are now being accepted to participate in Europe's newest cybersecurity demonstration, bringing together cybersecurity experts to help ESA and European industry keep critical space servi ... more  
Arianespace to launch eight new Galileo satellitesParis, France (SPX) Jan 10, 2022 Arianespace will launch the first two satellites in 2022, leading to the Full Operational Capability of Galileo open service. Then, three successive launches on Ariane 62 in 2023, 2024 and 2025, wil ... more |
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Taiwan sets up $1 bn credit for Lithuania amid China rowVilnius (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 Taiwan said Tuesday it will set up a $1 billion credit fund for business with Lithuania, where firms have been hit by a row with China over relations with Taipei. ... more  
Genting blames German state after shipbuilder's collapseFrankfurt (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 Asian tourism and casino group Genting accused a German state of failing to pay out money promised as part of a rescue plan for its now-insolvent shipbuilding subsidiary MV Werften. ... more  
Wreck of Taiwan's most advanced fighter jet found after crashTaipei (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 Taiwanese rescuers on Wednesday located the wreckage of a F-16V jet that crashed into the sea a day before, less than two months after the island launched the first squadron of its most advanced fighters. ... more  
US hopes Russian forces leave Kazakhstan 'promptly'Washington (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 The United States Tuesday called on Moscow to comply "promptly" with Kazakhstan's request to pull Russian troops out of the country, after Washington questioned the deployment following rare unrest there. ... more 
Kazakh president fires rare criticism at predecessor after unrestAlmaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev issued rare criticism of his long-ruling predecessor Tuesday, and said he expected Russian-led forces to leave the troubled Central Asian country in the next 10 days. ... more |
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 Melbourne FL (SPX) Dec 27, 2021 
L3Harris Technologies has completed the final major design milestone on the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program Phase IIb On-orbit Prototype Demonstration and has already begun building the demonstration satellite.
Completing the CDR is the final design milestone ensuring performance, cost and schedule requirements can be met b ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 10, 2022 
The United States and Japan will soon sign an agreement that will enable bilateral cooperation on developing defenses against hypersonic missiles and on new space-based capabilities, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
According to Blinken, in the coming days the United States and Japan will sign a new five-year host nation agreement that will support framework which will invest gre ... more |
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 Stockholm (AFP) Jan 7, 2022 
An autonomous drone carrying a defibrillator helped save the life of a 71-year-old man who suffered a cardiac arrest in Sweden, the man and the drone operator said Friday.
Emergency services dispatched the drone followed by an ambulance when Sven, a retiree who asked for his last name to be withheld, collapsed in early December while shovelling snow outside his home in the western town of Tr ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Dec 21, 2021 
The SPAINSAT NG programme has successfully passed another important milestone, the critical design review (CDR) of the payload and the complete satellite, including the CDR elements of the Pacis 3 partnership project with the European Space Agency (ESA). The review was declared successful after verifying the good progress of the tests performed on the development models of the X-band payload. ... more |
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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's complementary position, navigation, and timing (PNT) AgilePod prototype achieved three important objectives in flight tests conducted here November 1-10.
The test team - representing a broad base of Air Force, Navy, and vendor organizations - successfully executed eight sorties aboard a T-38C aircraft, which included the first test of the PNT AgilePod on ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 28, 2021 
The United States renewed calls Tuesday for an arms embargo on Myanmar's junta after a Christmas Eve massacre in which Save the Children said two of the group's staff were killed.
"The targeting of innocent people and humanitarian actors is unacceptable, and the military's widespread atrocities against the people of Burma underscore the urgency of holding its members accountable," US Secreta ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Jan 7, 2022 
Japan moved ahead with an expansion of support to US troops as the allies held top-level talks on Friday over tensions with China and North Korea.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the two nations were signing a five-year extension of the support package provided by Japan for the hosting of around 50,000 US troops on its soil.
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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) Jan 9, 2022 
Iraq's new parliament held a heated inaugural session Sunday, three tense months after legislative elections won by Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, the likely kingmaker of the next government.
Sadr, 47, who once led an anti-US militia and who has a large and dedicated following, is expected to have the key say in who will serve as the next prime minister, a post now held by Mustafa al-Kadhemi. ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 
In 1993, South Africa announced to a largely surprised world that it had built nuclear weapons in the 1980s, before dismantling its arsenal. For the first time, a country outside of the elite world powers had obtained nuclear capabilities while keeping matters a secret from almost everyone else.
To this day, South Africa remains the only country to have pulled off that exact trick. Other c ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 
Asian and European markets mixed Tuesday in cautious trade as investors grew increasingly concerned about the Federal Reserve's plans to wind back its financial support measures and lift interest rates within months.
While the fast-spreading Omicron coronavirus variant plays on nerves, traders are now coming to terms with the imminent end to the pandemic era of ultra-cheap cash, which helped ... more |
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 Brasilia (AFP) Jan 10, 2022 
The tragic collapse of a cliff that left 10 dead in Brazil on Saturday was caused by torrential rains and more disasters could be on the way, meteorologist Estael Sias told AFP.
Two months of downpours have caused deadly flooding in several Brazilian states, including Bahia in the northeast and Minas Gerais in the southeast, where a huge column of rock crashed down on tourists boats on Furna ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 10, 2022 
The Shenzhou XIII astronauts in China's space station core module have completed the manual rendezvous and docking experiment with the Tianzhou 2 cargo craft, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said Saturday.
At the beginning of the experiment, the astronauts in the core module teleoperated the Tianzhou 2 cargo craft to leave the front docking port of the core module's node cabin and mov ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 
Hong Kong will outlaw a host of new national security crimes, the city's leader said Wednesday, as she presided over the first session of a new "patriots only" legislature scrubbed of political opposition.
The law will add to an already sweeping national security law imposed directly on Hong Kong by Beijing that has transformed the international finance hub and empowered authorities to carry ... more |
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 Mosul, Iraq (AFP) Jan 10, 2022 
Iraqi authorities have repatriated 111 Iraqi families linked to the Islamic State group from a Kurdish-run camp in northern Syria, a local official said on Monday.
They arrived on Saturday and were transferred to Al-Jadaa camp south of Mosul, in Nineveh province, said the official who declined to be named.
Since May 2021, at least 339 families linked to the jihadist IS group have been mo ... 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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