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  Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) April 1, 2022 Moscow on Friday accused Kyiv of carrying out its first air strike on Russian soil, further dashing hopes of any deescalation in President Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine. Peace talks between Ukrainian and Russian officials resumed via video, but Moscow warned that the helicopter attack on a fuel depot in the town of Belgorod would hamper negotiations. After over a month of a military campaign that has reduced parts of Ukraine to rubble, Moscow said in peace talks earlier this week it would ... read more |
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EU to seek China rethink over Russia tiesBrussels (AFP) April 1, 2022 The EU holds a virtual summit with China on Friday amid increasing alarm over Beijing's growing proximity with Moscow and its reluctance to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine. ... more  
Fresh Japan sanctions on North Korea after ICBM launchTokyo (AFP) April 1, 2022 Japan's government on Friday approved fresh sanctions against North Korea over its recent test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile, following Washington's calls for tougher international punishment for the nuclear-armed state. ... more  
Solomons leader rules out hosting China military baseSydney (AFP) April 1, 2022 Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said Friday his government would not allow a Chinese military base to be built in his country "under its watch" as he defended a pending security agreement with Beijing. ... more  
Russia-Ukraine talks resume via video: Russian negotiatorMoscow (AFP) April 1, 2022 Russia and Ukraine on Friday resumed peace talks by video conference, a negotiator said, after Moscow reported a Ukrainian air strike on a fuel depot in western Russia. ... more |
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Iran slams new US sanctions as sign of 'ill will'Tehran (AFP) March 31, 2022 Iran on Thursday criticised the United States for imposing new sanctions on the Islamic republic, saying it shows the Americans harbour bad intentions towards its people. ... more 
War in Ukraine could 'drag on for awhile' as Russia eyes Donbas: PentagonWashington (AFP) March 31, 2022 Russia may be repositioning some of its forces around the Ukrainian capital Kyiv to send them to the eastern Donbas region, where Ukrainian forces have been putting up fierce resistance, the Pentagon said Thursday. ... more 
Sweden's PM says 'hasn't ruled out' NATO membershipStockholm (AFP) March 30, 2022 Sweden's prime minister said Wednesday she hasn't ruled out NATO membership in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, after having insisted until now on her country's policy of military non-alliance. ... more  
Ukraine war spurring NATO allies to spend more: StoltenbergBrussels (AFP) March 31, 2022 Russia's invasion of Ukraine has created a "new sense of urgency" among NATO member states to boost defence spending, the alliance's chief Jen Stoltenberg said Thursday as he unveiled the organisation's 2021 report. ... more |
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HENSOLDT Cyber and Beyond Gravity team up for robust satellite cybersecurityZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 HENSOLDT Cyber will supply its high security IT operating system TRENTOS to Beyond Gravity's for its latest satellite computer . The company's say this will ensure a high level of IT security for sa ... more 
SpiderOak and Lockheed Martin Space enter space cybersecurity + blockchain collaborationWashington DC (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 SpiderOak Mission Systems and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Space's Mission Solutions business are developing and testing a zero-trust cybersecurity platform to secure data across the space data suppl ... more  
New technical concept for NATO's Future Surveillance and Control capabilitiesFalls Church VA (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 Airbus Defence and Space together with Northrop Grumman and seven industrial players forming the ASPAARO (Atlantic Strategic Partnership for Advanced All-domain Resilient Operations) team have been ... more  
Axed French sub deal to cost Australia up to $5.5 billionSydney (AFP) April 1, 2022 Australia will be forced to pay up to Aus$5.5 billion (US$4.1 billion) to exit a submarine deal with France in favour of acquiring nuclear-powered US or British models, officials admitted Friday. ... more |
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Russia launches conscription drive amid Ukraine conflictMoscow (AFP) April 1, 2022 Russia on Friday launched its spring draft of young men eligible for national service, vowing conscripts will not be sent to fight in Ukraine, where over 1,000 troops have been killed. ... more 
SKorea test-fires solid-fuel space rocketSeoul (Yonhap) Mar 31, 2022 South Korea successfully test-fired a solid-fuel space rocket Wednesday, the defense ministry said, following North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch last week. The stat ... more 
NATO sees no Russian pull-back in Ukraine, expects more offensivesBrussels (AFP) March 31, 2022 NATO is not seeing a pull-back of Russian forces in Ukraine and expects "additional offensive actions," the alliance's chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday. ... more 
Denmark to send 800 NATO troops to LatviaCopenhagen (AFP) March 31, 2022 Denmark will send 800 troops to Latvia in May in response to a request from NATO, the Danish prime minister said Thursday. ... more  
Japanese space industry startup "Synspective" raises US $100MTokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 30, 2022 Synspective Inc., a SAR satellite data and solutions provider, announced that the company has raised US $100M (11.9 billion yen) including a Series B funding round. The latest funding was led by Som ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 30, 2022 
The Missile Defense Agency, in partnership with the U.S. Army Program Executive Office Missiles and Space, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, and Ballistic Missile Defense System Operational Test Agency, successfully conducted a flight test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Weapon System. The test, designated Flight Test THAAD Weapon System (FTT)-21, was conducted at t ... more |
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 Seoul (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.
Leader Kim Jong Un walks towards the camera, flanked by generals, as they prepare to fire the giant Hwasong-17 missile - Pyongyang's first ICBM test since 2017.
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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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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 
HENSOLDT Cyber will supply its high security IT operating system TRENTOS to Beyond Gravity's for its latest satellite computer . The company's say this will ensure a high level of IT security for satellites is at the heart of today's efforts to make satellites more robust and reliable.
"As satellites have become increasingly critical to the infrastructure of modern society, there is an inc ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 30, 2022 
US President Joe Biden and President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed "additional capabilities" to help the Ukrainian military, during a telephone call on Wednesday, the White House said in a statement.
Biden also told Zelensky that the United States would provide the Ukrainian government with $500 million in direct aid, as Kyiv battles against invading Russian forces.
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 Washington (AFP) March 29, 2022 
The United States, after imposing sanctions on Russia's defense industry, is considering targeting other sectors involved in Moscow's war effort in Ukraine, a US Treasury Department official said Tuesday.
"We are planning to target additional sectors that are critical to the Kremlin's ability to operate its war machine," said Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo, according to the text of ... more |
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 Copenhagen (AFP) March 31, 2022 
Denmark will send 800 troops to Latvia in May in response to a request from NATO, the Danish prime minister said Thursday.
Copenhagen had placed the battalion on alert after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and amid rising tensions between the West and Moscow.
Denmark has already sent land and air reinforcements to the Baltic states and Poland.
On Tuesday, the Danish government said it w ... 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.
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 Seoul (AFP) April 1, 2022 
Two South Korean air force planes collided in mid-air Friday, killing four pilots, Seoul's military said.
The KT-1 trainer jets crashed near the city of Sacheon, about 300 kilometres south of the capital Seoul, according to military authorities.
"Two KT-1 trainer jets at the Sacheon Air Base collided in mid-air while training and crashed," the defence ministry said in a statement.
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 Beijing (AFP) March 31, 2022 
China's factory activity shrank in March, official data showed Thursday, as the country's worst Covid outbreak in two years brought sporadic lockdowns and factory closures.
The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) - a key gauge of manufacturing activity - slid to 49.5, just below the 50-point mark separating growth from contraction, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics.
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 Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) March 31, 2022 
Russian troops on Tuesday vacated Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant after weeks of occupation, but took an unspecified number of captive Ukrainian servicemen with them, officials in Kyiv said on Thursday.
"As they ran away from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the Russian occupiers took members of the National Guard, whom they had held hostage since Feb 24, with them," the state nucl ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 30, 2022 
Three astronauts stationed in China's Tiangong space station are preparing for their return trip in the middle of April, packing up personal items, experimental products and other materials, putting equipment into place and exercising to prepare their bodies for Earth's gravity.
The astronauts, Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu, have to tidy up a large number of materials, including ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 31, 2022 
The sentencing of Australian journalist Cheng Lei by a Chinese court over accusations of supplying state secrets overseas was deferred on Thursday, with Canberra decrying the trial of a woman detained for 18 months so far as "closed and opaque".
Cheng - a mother-of-two and a former anchor on Beijing's state broadcaster CGTN - has been detained since August 2020. In February last year she ... more |
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 Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) April 1, 2022 
Human Rights Watch has called on Ukrainian authorities to launch an investigation into possible war crimes following the emergence of video footage that appears to show its soldiers shooting Russian war prisoners in the legs.
The video, which began circulating on March 27, shows three men in fatigues, hands bound behind their backs, thrown to the ground by armed men who then shoot them in ... 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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