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  Seoul (AFP) Jan 31, 2022 North Korea has conducted an unprecedented seven weapons tests so far this month - including launching its most powerful missile since 2017. The nuclear-armed country has also threatened to restart testing of long-range and nuclear weapons, blaming "hostile" US policy for forcing its hand. Such tests had been put on hold while leader Kim Jong Un embarked on high-level negotiations with then-US president Donald Trump, but talks collapsed in 2019 and have been stalled ever since. Pyongyang ha ... read more |
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Pentagon hopes to 'Light a Fire' for hypersonic development during high-level defense meetingMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 01, 2022 In October 2021, Gen. John Hyten, then-vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned that China's military capabilities would soon surpass that of both Washington and Moscow. Hyten claimed that ... more 
Iran stops using nuclear site after attack: UN watchdogVienna (AFP) Jan 31, 2022 Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency it has stopped production at one of its nuclear facilities attacked last June and transferred work to another site, the watchdog said Monday. ... more  
Russia says wants 'respectful' ties with USMoscow (AFP) Jan 30, 2022 Russia said Sunday it wants "mutually respectful" relations with the United States and denied posing a threat to Ukraine, as the UK said it was preparing fresh sanctions against Moscow. ... more 
North Korea confirms most powerful missile test since 2017Seoul (AFP) Jan 31, 2022 North Korea confirmed Monday it had fired its most powerful missile since 2017, capping a month-long blitz of launches that has raised the spectre of leader Kim Jong Un restarting nuclear tests. ... more |
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UAE intercepts Yemen rebel ballistic missile: defence ministryDubai (AFP) Jan 30, 2022 The UAE said Monday it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by Yemen's Huthi rebels towards the Gulf country with no casualties reported, the third such incident this month. ... more 
Iran says differences persist on key issues at nuclear talksTehran (AFP) Jan 31, 2022 Iran said Monday that differences with the United States remain over the issues of lifting sanctions and obtaining guarantees in Vienna talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal. ... more  
China Focus: China to explore space science more: white paperBeijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2022 China will carry out more space science exploration in the next five years, said a white paper on the country's space activities released Friday. The white paper, titled "China's Space Program ... more  
Chinese satellite reportedly grappled, moved another spacecraft away from orbitMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 01, 2022 The event was discussed as part of a webinar on managing the risks of satellite close approaches in geostationary orbit, hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Secure W ... more 
China to improve space infrastructure with new satellites, technologies: white paperBeijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2022 China will continue to improve its space infrastructure, and integrate remote-sensing, communications, navigation, and positioning satellite technologies in the next five years, according to a white ... more |
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China's cooperation with int'l space community fruitfulBeijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2022 China has been engaged with the international space community over the past five years, yielding fruitful results in space science, technology and application, a Chinese official said Friday. ... more  
Astra Awarded VADR Contract by NASAAlameda CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 Astra Space, Inc. has been awarded of the Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) Launch Services Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the National Aerona ... more 
China to improve space debris monitoring: white paperBeijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2022 China will improve space debris monitoring in the next five years to ensure the safe, stable and orderly operation of the space system, according to a white paper on the country's space activities r ... more 
North Korea says Sunday test was Hwasong-12 missileSeoul (AFP) Jan 30, 2022 North Korea confirmed it had fired a Hwasong-12 "mid-range ballistic missile", state media reported Monday, the first time it has tested a weapon that powerful since 2017. ... more  
Lithuanian firms grapple with China's 'undeclared sanctions'Vilnius (AFP) Jan 27, 2022 For Lithuanian peat exporter Kazimiras Kaminskas, a resolution of the dispute with China cannot come soon enough as his business is hit by what the government calls Beijing's "undeclared sanctions". ... more |
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 Dubai (AFP) Jan 30, 2022 
The UAE said Monday it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by Yemen's Huthi rebels towards the Gulf country with no casualties reported, the third such incident this month.
The defence ministry said in a statement that United Arab Emirates "air defences intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Huthi terrorist group towards the country".
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 Seoul (AFP) Jan 30, 2022  North Korea confirmed it had fired a Hwasong-12 "mid-range ballistic missile", state media reported Monday, the first time it has tested a weapon that powerful since 2017.
Seoul's military said it had detected the launch Sunday of an intermediate-range ballistic missile - Pyongyang's seventh weapons test in January.
North Korea has never test-fired this many missiles in a calendar month ... more |
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 New Delhi (AFP) Jan 29, 2022 
India ended a week of military pageantry on Saturday with a synchronised drone display showcasing its homegrown tech industry, in patriotic celebrations marking a milestone in the country's independence history.
A thousand aircraft flew in formation in the night skies above the capital New Delhi, flashing the saffron, white and green of the national flag, before rearranging themselves into a ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 
Radio frequency (RF) and microwave signals invisibly permeate the environment around us, carrying everything from radar signatures to the data from our mobile phones. Within RF systems, electronic oscillators can act as precise clocks or directly generate the baseline microwave tones.
While an ideal oscillator provides a tone at a singular frequency, component imperfections and coupling to ... 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) Jan 27, 2022 
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered Pentagon officials Thursday to undertake reforms to reduce the number of civilian deaths from military strikes after multiple unjustified fatal incidents.
"The protection of civilians is fundamentally consistent with the effective, efficient and decisive use of force in pursuit of US national interests," Austin said in a directive issued to Departmen ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 29, 2022 
France plans to send several hundred soldiers to Romania as part of a possible deployment on NATO's eastern flank, Defence Minister Florence Parly said Saturday amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
French President Emmanuel Macron had recently expressed France's "readiness to go further, and within the framework of NATO to commit to new missions... in particular in Romania".
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 26, 2022 
Named for a Roman god, Janus particles refer to nanoparticles that possess surfaces with two or more distinct physical chemical properties. The special nanoparticles were introduced to the scientific community by 1991 Nobel Prize winner Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, who pointed out that "objects with two sides of different wettability have the unique advantage of densely self-assembling at liquid-liq ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Jan 29, 2022 
Iraqi air strikes on Saturday killed nine suspected "terrorists" implicated in a deadly Islamic State group attack on an army base earlier this month, the military said.
The January 21 attack, which killed 11 soldiers in Hawi al-Azim in the eastern province of Diyala, was the deadliest claimed by the jihadists in Iraq this year.
In a statement released late Saturday, the military said i ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 31, 2022  A senior US official said Monday that time was running out for nuclear negotiations with Iran and urged Tehran to agree to direct talks to help forge a deal.
Speaking on background, the official said that Iran's nuclear program was nearing "breakout" toward nuclear weapons capability, leaving just "weeks" to reach a deal that would put the program on hold and ease sanctions on the country. ... more |
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 Vilnius (AFP) Jan 27, 2022 
For Lithuanian peat exporter Kazimiras Kaminskas, a resolution of the dispute with China cannot come soon enough as his business is hit by what the government calls Beijing's "undeclared sanctions".
Kaminskas, who heads up Klasmann-Deilmann Lietuva, has around 200 containers loaded with peat substrates that are stuck in several Chinese ports.
"When we try to clear customs and choose the ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 30, 2022 
A baby in his car seat. A man in bed. A girl walking with her mother: Stray bullets killed each of them days apart as surging gun violence ripples through the United States.
In addition to the people killed in suicides or the homicides hitting record levels in some US cities, an untallied number of other victims are struck by bullets that weren't meant for them.
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2022 
China will explore the moon's polar regions and is mulling over a manned lunar landing in the coming five years, according to a white paper released on Friday.
The white paper, titled "China's Space Program: A 2021 Perspective," said China will continue its studies and research "on the plan for a human lunar landing."
A new-generation manned spacecraft will be developed to support it ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 29, 2022 
Hong Kong's oldest university covered up one of the last public tributes to the deadly 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on Saturday, as Beijing continues to muzzle dissent in the financial hub.
Hong Kong was the only place in China where mass remembrance of Tiananmen was tolerated, but authorities have driven such activities underground after imposing a sweeping national security law on the c ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 29, 2022 
An American woman who allegedly led an all-female Islamic State battalion in Syria has been charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist group, the US Justice Department announced Saturday.
The woman, identified as Allison Fluke-Ekren, formerly of the US state of Kansas, had been named in a sealed criminal complaint filed in 2019 in a federal Virginia court, the government ... 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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