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  Seoul (AFP) March 28, 2022 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to build up "overwhelming" and unstoppable military power, state media reported Monday, days after he presided over the nation's biggest missile launch. Kim's comments follow Pyongyang successfully carrying out the launch in defiance of crippling international sanctions on Thursday, the first time the North has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile at full range since 2017. Known as the Hwasong-17, the powerful ICBM was first unveiled in October 2 ... read more |
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Iran hits back at US criticism after arms displayTehran (AFP) March 27, 2022 Iran on Sunday said it has the "right" to showcase its military equipment, after it was criticised by the US for displaying military hardware at a Qatar defence show. ... more  
Germany mulling Israeli anti-missile shield purchaseBerlin (AFP) March 27, 2022 Germany is looking at buying an Israeli anti-missile shield system that could also offer protective cover for neighbouring EU states, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sunday. ... more  
US, Philippines kick off their largest-ever war gamesManila (AFP) March 28, 2022 The Philippines and the United States launched the largest-ever joint military drills in the archipelago nation on Monday, signalling deepening defence ties as fresh tensions surface in the disputed South China Sea. ... more 
Philippine coastguard accuses China ship of risking collisionManila (AFP) March 27, 2022 The Philippine Coast Guard has accused its Chinese counterpart of steering one of its ships within metres of a Filipino patrol vessel in the disputed South China Sea, breaking international rules and risking a collision. ... more |
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EU envoy visits Iran to close gaps on nuclear dealTehran (AFP) March 27, 2022 The EU's coordinator for talks to restore the 2015 nuclear deal met Iran's foreign minister and its chief negotiator Sunday in Tehran, state media reported, aiming to bridge gaps in the talks. ... more 
US to keep Guard sanctions even with Iran nuclear dealDoha (AFP) March 27, 2022 The United States will maintain sanctions on Iran's Revolutionary Guards even if there is a deal to limit the country's nuclear programme, US special envoy Robert Malley said Sunday. ... more 
US, Israel 'committed' to preventing Iran getting nuclear bomb: BlinkenJerusalem (AFP) March 27, 2022 The US and Israel are committed to ensure Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday, as the allies acknowledged differences over negotiations with Tehran. ... more 
Blinken in Israel to meet Arab ministers as Iran nuclear talks advanceJerusalem (AFP) March 27, 2022 The US and Israel "see eye-to-eye" on preventing Iran from obtaining atomic weapons, America's top diplomat said Sunday, before talks in Israel with Arab foreign ministers sceptical of a nuclear pact with Tehran. ... more |
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Coalition air raids strike Yemen as rebels, UN seek truceRiyadh (AFP) March 27, 2022 The Saudi-led coalition launched air strikes Sunday on Yemen hours after Huthi rebels announced a three-day truce, with the UN chief condemning a surge in violence as the war enters its eighth year. ... more  
Kyrgyz town mourns Russian soldier killed in UkraineKara-Balta, Kyrgyzstan (AFP) March 27, 2022 In a provincial town in Kyrgyzstan, the mother of a man who died fighting for Russia in Ukraine wailed as his coffin was carried away by blue-uniformed Russian military men, on its final journey into the ground. ... more  
Iraq building Syria wall to keep out IS fightersBaghdad (AFP) March 27, 2022 Iraq is building a concrete wall along part of its border with Syria to stop Islamic State group jihadists from infiltrating, an Iraqi military source said Sunday. ... more  
Russian space agency wants foreign partners to pay it in rublesMoscow (AFP) March 23, 2022 The Russian space agency said Wednesday it will insist its international partners pay it in rubles, after President Vladimir Putin said Russia will only accept ruble payments for gas deliveries to "unfriendly countries". ... more |
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North Korea goes Hollywood with dramatic missile launch footageSeoul (AFP) March 25, 2022 Leather jacket, sunglasses and a gigantic missile: North Korean state media announced the launch of Pyongyang's largest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile with an attempt at old-school Hollywood flair on Friday. ... more 
Russia-West scientific collaboration a casualty of Ukraine warParis (AFP) March 26, 2022 For neuroscience researcher Boris, "everything fell apart" a month ago, when Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent decades-long scientific cooperation with the West crashing back to Earth. ... more
Blinken heads to Israel, Morocco, AlgeriaWarsaw (AFP) March 26, 2022 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken flies to Israel Saturday as the Ukraine war rages, aiming to rally regional support for Kyiv and quell the Jewish state's worries about a looming nuclear deal with Iran. ... more 
'No turning back' for North Korea's Kim after ICBM testSeoul (AFP) March 25, 2022 Emboldened by the launch of his biggest missile, Kim Jong Un is increasingly confident he's winning North Korea's nuclear deterrent race and will likely undertake more powerful weapons tests, analysts say. ... more 
China top diplomat in India for first visit since border clashNew Delhi (AFP) March 25, 2022 India and China sought Friday to patch up relations as Beijing's foreign minister visited Delhi for the first time since a deadly clash on the Asian giants' disputed Himalayan border. ... more |
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 Berlin (AFP) March 27, 2022 
Germany is looking at buying an Israeli anti-missile shield system that could also offer protective cover for neighbouring EU states, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sunday.
"I can reveal to you that that is certainly among the things that we are discussing, and for good reasons," Scholz told state television channel ARD.
The chancellor's comments confirmed earlier statements from German par ... more |
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 Washington (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.
Moscow has said it has fired two hypersonic missiles in Ukraine, and while US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin would not "confirm or dispute" whether Russia used such weapons, he warned that President ... 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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 Germantown MD (SPX) Mar 24, 2022 
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), an innovator in satellite and multi-transport technologies and networks for 50 years, has announced the award of an $18 million contract from the Department of Defense (DoD) to deploy a standalone 5G network at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington state.
The Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) was issued through the Information Warfare Research ... more |
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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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 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 criti ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 26, 2022 
For neuroscience researcher Boris, "everything fell apart" a month ago, when Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent decades-long scientific cooperation with the West crashing back to Earth.
In response to sanctions and moral outrage at Moscow's war, scientific institutes around the world swiftly cut off ties with Russia, including the European Space Agency, the European Organization for Nuclear R ... more |
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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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 Hilla, Iraq (AFP) March 27, 2022 
An American tourist poses for a holiday snap in Iraq, in front of the blue-brick Ishtar Gate that was rebuilt at the ancient site of Babylon under dictator Saddam Hussein.
Most foreigners here since Saddam's ouster in a 2003 US-led invasion have worn army fatigues and carried guns - but more recently there has been a trickle of camera-toting travel pioneers.
"Iraq was in my top three co ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) March 26, 2022  The United States called Friday for tougher international sanctions against North Korea at the UN Security Council, accusing Pyongyang of "increasingly dangerous provocations" after it test-fired its largest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile.
"The United States calls on all member states to fully implement the existing Security Council resolutions," US Ambassador to the United Nations ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) March 28, 2022 
Asian markets fluctuated Monday with traders hopeful for some progress in ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine this week, though a phased lockdown in Shanghai led to fresh concerns about already strained supply chains.
Growing expectations that the Federal Reserve will become increasingly aggressive in its drive to bring down inflation continue to dampen sentiment, with Treasury yields ... more |
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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 28, 2022 
China's cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-2 separated from the core module of the country's space station Sunday afternoon, announced the China Manned Space Agency.
At 3:59 pm Beijing Time, Tianzhou-2 left the core module of the Tiangong space station after completing all of its scheduled tasks, said the agency.
During its operation in orbit, Tianzhou-2 carried out a series of extended appli ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) March 26, 2022 
Canberra voiced concern for Australian journalist Cheng Lei's well-being Saturday, as it confirmed she would face trial in China next week after almost two years in detention.
Cheng, previously an anchor on state broadcaster CGTN, disappeared in August 2020 and was formally arrested for "illegally supplying state secrets overseas" in February last year.
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 Baghdad (AFP) March 27, 2022 
Iraq is building a concrete wall along part of its border with Syria to stop Islamic State group jihadists from infiltrating, an Iraqi military source said Sunday.
In the "first stage" of construction, a wall around "a dozen kilometres (seven miles) long and 3.5 metres (11 feet) high was built in Nineveh province", in the Sinjar area of northwest Iraq, a senior officer told AFP, requesting a ... more |
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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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