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  New Delhi (AFP) March 24, 2022 When 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a recent border clash with China, the military hardware New Delhi sent to bolster its Himalayan frontier was mostly Russian-origin, showing not for the first time its closeness to "longstanding and time-tested friend" Moscow. Facing an increasingly assertive China closer to home, these ties help explain Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reluctance to criticise Vladimir Putin - a regular visitor - over the Ukraine invasion. India has abstained on UN resolutio ... read more |
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US criticizes Iran presence at Qatar defense showcaseWashington (AFP) March 24, 2022 The US State Department warned of possible sanctions Thursday after Iranian military officials attended a defense show in Qatar and exhibited some of Iran's military hardware. ... more  
What are 'tactical' nuclear weapons, and would Putin use them?Paris (AFP) March 24, 2022 Russia's invasion of Ukraine has raised the spectre of something considered almost unthinkable until recently: the use of a small nuclear weapon during a conflict in Europe. ... more 
North Korea's missile test a rude awakening for Biden in EuropeWashington (AFP) March 24, 2022 North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile test Thursday exposed how thinly stretched US foreign policy risks becoming - with the Ukraine war putting President Joe Biden's hoped-for pivot to Asia on the back burner. ... more 
Fire and fury: North Korea's banned weapons testsParis (AFP) March 24, 2022 North Korea fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday, Japan and South Korea said, denouncing the most powerful launch since 2017 by the isolated, nuclear-armed state. ... more |
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North Korea says Kim ordered test of 'new type' of ICBMSeoul (AFP) March 25, 2022 Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the test-firing of North Korea's largest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile, ensuring his country is ready for "long-standing confrontation" with the United States, state media reported Friday. ... more  
Fleeing Putin, Russians resettle in pro-Kremlin SerbiaBelgrade (AFP) March 25, 2022 As free speech was curtailed, her friends imprisoned and the Russian economy tanked in the days after Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Marina packed her bags and fled Moscow. ... more 
Kremlin rebuffs speculation as defence minister surfaces; Day 29 of Russia's invasionMoscow (AFP) March 24, 2022 The Kremlin said Thursday that Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu was too busy for public appearances, as his absence from view for nearly two weeks prompted questions from journalists. ... more 
China top diplomat in India for first visit since border clashNew Delhi (AFP) March 25, 2022 China's foreign minister was in India on Friday, officials said, his first visit since a deadly clash on the Asian giants' disputed Himalayan border in 2020. ... more |
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China calls NATO claims of backing Russia 'disinformation'Beijing (AFP) March 24, 2022 Beijing on Thursday accused the NATO chief of "spreading disinformation" with claims that China has backed Russia's war against Ukraine, amid growing international pressure to distance itself from Moscow. ... more 
Biden's Brussels triple summit big on unity, short on tougher measuresBrussels (AFP) March 25, 2022 US President Joe Biden coaxed a display of unity in the face of Russia's Ukraine invasion from an overlapping array of Western leaders at a trifecta of Brussels summits Thursday. ... more  
Ukraine demands unlimited NATO aid against Russia's month-old warKyiv (AFP) March 24, 2022 A month since Russia launched its shock invasion, Ukraine's leader Thursday demanded NATO "save" his shattered country with all-out military aid to let its armed forces turn their dogged defence into attack. ... more  
Four Russians indicted in US for energy sector hacksWashington (AFP) March 24, 2022 Four Russian agents have been indicted in the United States for hacking attacks targeting the energy sector around the world, including a US nuclear power operator and a Saudi petrochemical facility. ... more |
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Complex questions as face recognition tech joins Ukraine warWashington (AFP) March 25, 2022 Ukraine is employing face recognition technology to identify invading Russian troops killed on its soil, a complex and unprecedented avenue for software already seen as problematic, experts said Thursday. ... more  
Taliban vow to address 'all concerns' of China as Wang visitsKabul (AFP) March 24, 2022 The Taliban said Thursday they had assured Beijing's most senior diplomat about any concerns China thinks may "emerge from Afghan soil", ahead of a key meeting with their neighbours next week. ... more  
Deep in Siberia, a village buries soldier killed in UkraineZubkovo, Russia (AFP) March 24, 2022 Dozens of mourners trudged through the snow in a remote Siberian village on Thursday to pay last respects to Sergei Sokolov, a young Russian serviceman killed in Ukraine. ... more  
Russia hypersonic missile 'not a game changer' in Ukraine: USWashington (AFP) March 20, 2022 Russia's claim it used a hypersonic missile in Ukraine was a way to reclaim war momentum, but the next-generation weaponry has not proved to be a "game changer," the Pentagon's chief said Sunday. ... more 
Russia turns to attrition one month into Ukraine warParis (AFP) March 23, 2022 Russia's forces in Ukraine appear to be turning to a war of attrition with devastating effect on civilians, after failing to secure hoped-for swift gains when President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion one month ago. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 19, 2022 
Joe Biden has promised to help Ukraine get air defense systems with a longer range than the shoulder-borne Stinger missiles already on the ground, but finding the powerful anti-missile batteries Ukraine's military so urgently needs is proving easier said than done.
The US president, who wants to support Ukraine militarily without entering into direct conflict with Russia, is seeking to provi ... more |
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 London (AFP) March 23, 2022 
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said late Wednesday Britain would send 6,000 missiles and Pounds 25 million ($33 million, 30 million euros) in financial aid to Ukraine's army to help it fight Russian forces.
The announcement of the funding and additional military hardware, consisting of anti-tank and high explosive weapons, comes on the eve of NATO and G7 summits set to discuss the Russian invasion. ... more |
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 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 
The wind is not just 'wind' - but a complicated arrangement of turbulent features that are influenced by the surrounding environment. Air turbulence is created by the landscape, but also by buildings, roads and wind turbines. In the ESTABLIS-UAS project, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is researching these flow effects. For this purpose, a swarm of dr ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 23, 2022 
The Meridian series of dual-use civilian/military communications satellites began to sent to space in the mid-2000s. In 2019, the first upgraded Meridian-M satellite was deployed.
The Russian military has taken control over the Meridian-M communications satellite after its launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome aboard a Soyuz rocket on Tuesday, the Ministry of Defence has announced.
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 Kyiv (AFP) March 24, 2022 
A month since Russia launched its shock invasion, Ukraine's leader Thursday demanded NATO "save" his shattered country with all-out military aid to let its armed forces turn their dogged defence into attack.
After relentless Russian bombardment of Ukrainian cities, the vast scale of civilian suffering was made stark as the UN said more than half of all Ukraine's children have been driven fro ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) March 21, 2022 
The European Union on Monday approved a new defence strategy designed to increase the bloc's capacity to act, including setting up a 5,000-strong rapid reaction force.
The plan - in the pipeline for two years - underwent a last-minute rewrite to increase the focus on the threat from Russia after Moscow invaded Ukraine.
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 Beijing (AFP) March 24, 2022 
Beijing on Thursday accused the NATO chief of "spreading disinformation" with claims that China has backed Russia's war against Ukraine, amid growing international pressure to distance itself from Moscow.
China has refused to condemn close ally Russia over the bloody invasion of Ukraine and lagged behind many other countries in providing humanitarian aid to the war-stricken country.
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 07, 2022 
Nanoparticles (which have sizes ranging between 3-500 nm), and sub-nanoclusters (which are around 1 nm in diameter) are utilized in many fields, including medicine, robotics, materials science, and engineering. Their small size and large surface-area-to-volume ratios give them unique properties, rendering them valuable in a variety of applications, ranging from pollution control to chemical synt ... more |
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 Mosul, Iraq (AFP) March 9, 2022 
Beneath what remains of the 12th-century Al-Hadba minaret, builders work on a project to revive Mosul's Old City, reduced to rubble during Iraq's battle to retake the city from jihadists.
Mosques, churches and century-old houses are being brought back to life in the northern metropolis, which the Islamic State group seized as its stronghold before being pushed out in mid-2017.
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 Paris (AFP) March 24, 2022 
North Korea fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday, Japan and South Korea said, denouncing the most powerful launch since 2017 by the isolated, nuclear-armed state.
Here is a look at the development of Pyongyang's banned nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes, for which it has been hit with international sanctions:
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 Hong Kong (AFP) March 23, 2022 
Asian markets extended gains Wednesday, tracking a rally in New York, on optimism that the Federal Reserve's plan to hike interest rates will help bring inflation under control.
While there remains plenty of concern about the war in Ukraine, analysts said some confidence had seeped back into trading floors as investors bet on consumer resilience and economies continue to reopen.
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 Kyiv (AFP) March 23, 2022 
Ukraine said Wedesday it is using artificial intelligence and social media to identify killed Russian troops in an effort to disprove Moscow's claim its invasion is a limited military operation.
"Today, we are using artificial intelligence to search social networks for profiles of Russian soldiers based on images of their bodies to report their deaths to friends and relatives," Deputy Ukrai ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 19, 2022 
China plans to conduct a number of frontier scientific experiments on its Tiangong space station, with the two laboratory modules, Wentian and Mengtian, scheduled to be launched this year, according to the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The experiments include raising fish, growing vegetables, setting up the most precise clock ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) March 22, 2022 
A Hong Kong martial arts coach accused of running an armed separatist movement with his assistant has been charged with sedition, police said Tuesday, after a raid that seized weapons including crossbows and machetes.
Police allege the coach, 59, and a 62-year-old female assistant - both of whom face weapons charges - set up a martial arts training hall to "incite hatred" against the gover ... more |
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 Beirut (AFP) March 23, 2022 
Ahead of a series of summits in Europe on Russia's war in Ukraine, US President Joe Biden warned Wednesday of a "real threat" Russia may use chemical weapons in Ukraine, repeating earlier allegations from the White House.
The last time chemical weapons were unleashed during a conflict was in Syria where a civil war erupted in 2011 as rebels sought to oust President Bashar al-Assad.
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Feb 18, 2022 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate hosted a collaborative wargame with its sister AFRL unit, the Munitions Directorate, at Kirtland AFB, Jan. 24-28, 2022. The Directed Energy and Kinetic Energy Directed Energy Utility Concept Experiment, or DEKE DEUCE, explored synergies between directed energy and kinetic concepts in the future battlespace.
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