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  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 25, 2022 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently captured the highest-resolution image of the universe in infrared that has ever been seen. The historic photos were made possible by the Defense Department's ability to secure strategic and critical materials necessary for the mission. At the top of that list is the unique element beryllium. Invisible to X-rays and with a stiffness six times greater than steel, beryllium is an element in a class by itself. Due to its properties, DOD and the Departme ... read more |
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MDA selects NC and Raytheon to further develop Glide Phase Interceptor prototypeWashington DC (SPX) Jul 25, 2022 The Department of Defense has awarded two firm fixed price Other Transaction (OT) Agreement modifications to exercise options; one to Northrop Grumman and one to Raytheon through the Missile Defense ... more  
US releases $270 mn in military aid to Ukraine including rocket systemsWashington (AFP) July 22, 2022 The United States on Friday signed off on another $270 million in military aid to Ukraine including four new Himars precision rocket systems. ... more  
CIA chief says chaos-hit Sri Lanka made 'dumb bets' on ChinaWashington (AFP) July 20, 2022 CIA chief Bill Burns on Wednesday blamed "dumb bets" on high-debt Chinese investment as a factor in Sri Lanka's economic collapse, saying it should serve as a warning to other nations. ... more  
Canada's military creates new space divisionOttawa (Sputnik) Jul 25, 2022 The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) has established the 3 Canadian Space Division as its newest addition to the country's military, the Department of National Defense ... more |
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Macron says Iran nuclear deal 'still possible'Paris (AFP) July 23, 2022 French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday told his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi that reviving the landmark 2015 deal on Tehran's nuclear capabilities was "still possible" but must happen "as soon as possible". ... more 
Iran says Saudi ready to move reconciliation talks to higher levelTehran (AFP) July 22, 2022 Iran and Saudi Arabia are ready to move reconciliation talks to a higher level, more than a year after they began and six years after the two rivals severed relations, Iran's foreign minister says. ... more  
China slams Taiwan parliament speaker's Lithuania visitVilnius (AFP) July 22, 2022 Beijing on Friday voiced a "strong protest" against Lithuania for welcoming a Taiwanese delegation on a visit, claiming it violated the one-China policy. ... more 
Taiwan stages Chinese invasion war games with Ukraine in mindTaipei (AFP) July 25, 2022 Taiwan kicked off its largest annual military exercises Monday, with trench warfare and shoulder-launched Stinger missiles deployed against simulated Chinese attacks in drills informed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ... more |
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Russian air strike on Syria kills seven: monitorJisr Ash Shughur, Syria (AFP) July 22, 2022 A Russian air strike killed seven people, four of them children, in Syria's rebel-held Idlib region on Friday, a war monitor said. ... more  
Iraq's Kurdistan caught in Turkish war with rebelsBaghdad (AFP) July 22, 2022 After artillery bombardment killed nine people in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, Baghdad called for a withdrawal of Turkish forces and said Ankara should handle its "domestic problems" with PKK rebels far from Iraq's borders. ... more  
Macron hosts close ally Egypt's al-SisiParis (AFP) July 22, 2022 French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday met Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Paris for their latest talks aimed at tightening a relationship based on security and defence ties that has troubled activists. ... more
Angry Iraq buries dead from shelling blamed on TurkeyBaghdad (AFP) July 21, 2022 An angry and grieving Iraq on Thursday buried nine holidaymakers, including a newlywed, killed in the artillery bombardment of a Kurdish hill village. ... more |
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Israel strikes Damascus countryside: monitorBeirut (AFP) July 21, 2022 An Israeli air strike early Friday hit military sites in the Damascus countryside, a war monitor said. ... more 
Myanmar marks 75th anniversary of death of independence heroYangon (AFP) July 19, 2022 The 75th anniversary of the assassination of Myanmar's independence hero and father of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi was a muted affair Tuesday, with soldiers patrolling Yangon's streets and anti-junta demonstrators staging small protests in other parts of the country. ... more  
Six Iraq police killed in attack blamed on IS: army sourceBaghdad (AFP) July 20, 2022 Six Iraqi police were killed and seven wounded early Wednesday in an attack by jihadists on their position in a remote area north of Baghdad, a military source said. ... more 
Terran Orbital completes Space-to-Ground Optical Link demonstration on Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3Boca Raton FL (SPX) Jul 20, 2022 Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries, has announced the first signal acqui ... more 
China denounces US for calling space a 'Warfighting Domain'Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 21, 2022 Last month, the US Space Force (USSF) launched a new intelligence center and US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines called space "a warfighting domain." The military branch was launched i ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 25, 2022 
The Department of Defense has awarded two firm fixed price Other Transaction (OT) Agreement modifications to exercise options; one to Northrop Grumman and one to Raytheon through the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) authority under 10 U.S.C. 4022.
Each modification has an approximate value of $41.5M and an anticipated Period of Performance through February 2023. These modifications will allo ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 25, 2022 
Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE: NOC) systems fused sensor information from multiple services to create a fire-control-quality composite track on a multi-service network during U.S. Indo-Pacific Command's (INDOPACOM) Valiant Shield exercise, enabling an extended battlespace and allowing better and quicker decisions.
Northrop Grumman's systems, including the U.S. Army's Integrated Batt ... more |
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 Arbil, Iraq (AFP) July 22, 2022 
Two bomb-laden drones targeting a Turkish military base in northern Iraq were shot down Friday, a local mayor said, amid heightened tensions days after nine Iraqi civilians died in shelling blamed on Turkey.
The Turkish army has maintained dozens of outposts over the past 25 years across northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region as part of its campaign against rebels.
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 Stevenage UK (SPX) Jul 15, 2022 
Airbus has achieved a key milestone with the successful completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) of the UK Ministry of Defence's (MOD) next secure military communications satellite, SKYNET 6A.
Richard Franklin, Managing Director of Airbus Defence and Space UK said: "Achieving this crucial milestone is tangible proof that in partnership with Defence Digital in the Ministry of Defence ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 15, 2022 
Seeking to revolutionize how the Department of Defense (DoD) objectively measures individual warfighter readiness, DARPA's newest biotechnology funding opportunity aims to develop a hand-held prediction tool for warfighter physiological states based on molecular biomarkers. The device developed under the Smart Non-invasive Assays of Physiology (SNAP) program would be readily configurable to dive ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) July 22, 2022 
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday met Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Paris for their latest talks aimed at tightening a relationship based on security and defence ties that has troubled activists.
Macron hosted the Egyptian strongman at the Elysee Palace days after hosting UAE leader Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, himself a close ally of Sisi's secular administrat ... more |
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 Ankara (AFP) July 21, 2022 
Turkey on Thursday said a new "permanent committee" would meet Finnish and Swedish officials in August to assess if the two nations are complying with Ankara's conditions to ratify their NATO membership bids.
Finland and Sweden dropped their history of military non-alignment and announced plans to join NATO after Russia invaded Ukraine at the end of February.
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 Tokushima, Japan (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 
Raman spectroscopy, an optical microscopy technique, is a non-destructive chemical analysis technique that provides rich molecular fingerprint information about chemical structure, phase, crystallinity, and molecular interactions. The technique relies on the interaction of light with chemical bonds within a material.
However, since light is a wave, optical microscopes are unable to resolve ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) July 20, 2022 
Six Iraqi police were killed and seven wounded early Wednesday in an attack by jihadists on their position in a remote area north of Baghdad, a military source said.
"Between 10 and 15 Islamic State group fighters attacked this federal police forward position around 12:30 am (2130 GMT Tuesday). The attack lasted around an hour," the source said, asking not to be identified.
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 Tehran (AFP) July 22, 2022  Iran and Saudi Arabia are ready to move reconciliation talks to a higher level, more than a year after they began and six years after the two rivals severed relations, Iran's foreign minister says.
Since April last year Iraq has hosted five rounds of talks between Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shiite-majority Iran, which support opposing sides in various conflicts around the region.
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 Washington (AFP) July 20, 2022 
CIA chief Bill Burns on Wednesday blamed "dumb bets" on high-debt Chinese investment as a factor in Sri Lanka's economic collapse, saying it should serve as a warning to other nations.
"The Chinese have a lot of weight to throw around and they can make a very appealing case for their investments," Burns said at the Aspen Security Forum.
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 Tokyo (AFP) July 22, 2022 
Japan's nuclear regulator on Friday formally approved a plan to release more than a million tonnes of treated water from the crippled Fukushima plant into the ocean, sparking an angry reaction from China.
The plan has already been adopted by the government and endorsed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), but plant operator TEPCO must still win over local communities before goin ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 25, 2022  Astronauts entered the new lab module of China's space station for the first time Monday, in a major step towards completing the orbital outpost by the end of the year.
The station is one of the crown jewels of Beijing's ambitious space programme, which has landed robotic rovers on Mars and the Moon, and made China only the third nation to put humans in orbit.
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 Beijing (AFP) July 23, 2022 
A Chinese woman who was denied permission to freeze her eggs on the grounds that she was unmarried has had her case dismissed by a Beijing court.
Xu Zaozao took legal action in 2019 after a Beijing hospital refused to freeze her eggs, a procedure only available in China to married couples suffering from infertility.
Her case was widely followed in China, where women's rights have become ... more |
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 Bangkok (AFP) July 20, 2022 
Myanmar junta troops are committing war crimes by laying landmines on a "massive scale" around villages where they are battling anti-coup fighters, rights campaign group Amnesty International said Wednesday.
Fighting has ravaged swathes of the country since last year's putsch, which sparked renewed clashes with ethnic rebel groups and the formation of dozens of "People's Defence Forces" now ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 21, 2022 
Dragonfire, the UK's Laser Directed Energy Programme (LDEW) led by MBDA, has successfully begun a series of trials to prove the accuracy and power of the novel laser weapon.
The first of these trials recently conducted by the Dragonfire consortium - a joint industry and UK MOD collaboration between MBDA, Leonardo, QinetiQ and Dstl - at low power proved the system can successfully track air ... more |
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