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  Paris (AFP) Feb 21, 2023 Russia's step back from a key arms control treaty is a blow to efforts to cap nuclear stockpiles, but does not immediately heighten the risk of nuclear war, experts said Tuesday. President Vladimir Putin's announcement that he was halting cooperation under the New START treaty should be understood as another attempt to put pressure on Western countries supplying Ukraine with weapons and money as it fights the Russian invasion, they added. Former US president Barack Obama signed the deal in 2010 ... read more |
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Russia to comply with nuclear treaty curbs despite suspensionMoscow (AFP) Feb 21, 2023 Russia said Tuesday it will observe curbs imposed by the New START treaty, hours after President Vladimir Putin announced Moscow was suspending participation in the arms pact with the United States. ... more 
Putin suspends US nuclear treaty, Biden vows Russia will never winMoscow (AFP) Feb 21, 2023 President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday suspended Moscow's participation in a nuclear arms treaty with Washington as US President Joe Biden vowed in a rival speech that Russia would never win in Ukraine. ... more  
Why China's military support for Russia would be a 'game changer'Beijing (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 The United States has said China is "considering providing lethal support" for Russia's war in Ukraine. ... more 
N. Korea slams UN chief's 'unfair' missile condemnationSeoul (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 North Korea rejected on Wednesday condemnation by the United Nations chief of its recent ballistic missile launches, saying it was "unfair and unbalanced" and ignored Pyongyang's right to self-defence. ... more |
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UN nuclear watchdog team in Iran to resolve 'ambiguities'Tehran (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 Iran said Wednesday that International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors were in the country to clear up "ambiguities" about its uranium enrichment activities. ... more  
China accuses Biden of 'saying one thing, doing another' over balloon spatBeijing (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 China on Wednesday accused Joe Biden of "saying one thing and doing another" in a direct rebuke of the US president's decision to shoot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon this month. ... more  
Ukraine cautious on Chinese 'peace plan'Brussels (AFP) Feb 21, 2023 Ukraine's foreign minister expressed cautious interest Tuesday in China's ideas for a peace deal to end the war with Russia, but warned it must respect Kyiv's territorial integrity. ... more  
SpaceX Dragon crewed flight to ISS pushed back 24 hoursWashington (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 US space agency NASA and SpaceX on Tuesday pushed back by 24 hours the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket that is to carry four astronauts to the International Space Station. ... more |
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SpaceX faces a $175,000 penalty for failure to report launch data to FAASpace Coast FL (SPX) Feb 19, 2023 The United States' Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed a $175,000 civil penalty to SpaceX for failing "to submit launch collision analysis trajectory data directly to the FAA before t ... more 
New START: key Obama-era nuclear disarmament treatyMoscow (AFP) Feb 21, 2023 President Vladimir Putin has announced Moscow's suspension of its participation in the New START treaty, which commits Russia and the United States to limiting their stockpile of nuclear warheads. ... more 
NATO 'stronger than it's ever been': BidenWarsaw (AFP) Feb 21, 2023 US President Joe Biden on Tuesday said NATO was stronger than ever during a visit to Poland ahead of the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. ... more  
Belgium probes passage by 'Russian spy ship'Brussels (AFP) Feb 21, 2023 Belgium has launched an investigation after a suspected Russian spy ship was spotted off its North Sea coast, perhaps surveying key energy and communications links, a minister said Tuesday. ... more |
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Russian refuseniks hide in fear to evade Ukraine conflictUndisclosed Location, Russia (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 The documents issued to Dmitry by the Russian military carry an ominous handwritten designation: "Category One. State of Health B". ... more 
On EU, Ukraine borders, Belarus special forces are 'ready'Brest, Belarus (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 In reclusive Belarus, just a few kilometres from the EU frontier, special forces in the army of Kremlin ally Alexander Lukashenko are simulating forest combat while paratroopers nearby practise jumping from aircraft. ... more  
Sanction-hit Russia displays combat-tested arms at UAE fairAbu Dhabi (AFP) Feb 20, 2023 Russia showed up in force Monday at an arms fair in the United Arab Emirates, displaying combat-tested weapons up for export, including rifles and air defence systems. ... more 
UN Security Council 'silence' on N. Korea missiles 'dangerous', US saysUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 20, 2023 The United States on Monday denounced a "dangerous" lack of action by the UN Security Council on North Korea's missile launches, accusing - but not naming - China and Russia of having "forced" the body "into silence." ... more  
Taiwan 'to bolster' military ties with United StatesTaipei (AFP) Feb 21, 2023 Taiwan will boost military exchanges with the United States to curb "authoritarian expansionism", President Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday after meeting with visiting US lawmakers. ... more |
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 Bratislava (AFP) Feb 9, 2023 
Germany will give Bratislava two sets of the MANTIS air defence system to protect Slovakia's eastern border with Ukraine, the Slovak defence ministry said Thursday.
"Slovakia will receive the systems free of charge and permanently," the ministry spokeswoman Martina Kakascikova told AFP.
"The training of Slovak soldiers to use the system will begin in the coming months," Slovak Defence M ... more |
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Lockheed Martin is partnering with the U.S. Navy to integrate hypersonic strike capability onto surface ships. The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth more than $2 billion, if all options are exercised, to integrate the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) weapon system onto ZUMWALT-class guided missile destroyers (DDGs). CPS is a hypersonic boost-glide weapon system that enables long ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 18, 2023 
The United States has ended its search for debris from an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon it shot down earlier this month as well as two other objects downed near Alaska and on Lake Huron, the military's Northern Command said Friday.
"Recovery operations concluded February 16 off the coast of South Carolina, after US Navy assets assigned to US Northern Command successfully located and r ... more |
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 Space Coast FL (SPX) Feb 16, 2023 
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded Babcock International Group a six-year contract to manage and operate Skynet, the MOD's military satellite communications system, on February 15.
The contract is called Skynet Service Delivery Wrap (SDW), it is valued at 400 million pounds ($486.6 million), and it is expected to support 400 jobs in Corsham, Bristol, and Plymouth, U ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 17, 2023  The US Army on Friday announced the award of a nearly $1 billion contract to increase production of 155 mm artillery rounds that are being used in large quantities by Ukraine.
General Dynamics Ordnance & Tactical Systems and American Ordnance LLC will compete for individual orders of the rounds under the $993.7 million contract, the Army said in a statement.
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 Abu Dhabi (AFP) Feb 20, 2023 
Russia showed up in force Monday at an arms fair in the United Arab Emirates, displaying combat-tested weapons up for export, including rifles and air defence systems.
At an isolated pavilion at the International Defence Exhibition (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi, Moscow's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport said it had more than 200 full-scale models of armament, ammunition and military gear.
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 21, 2023 
China's foreign minister said Tuesday that Beijing is "deeply concerned" about the conflict in Ukraine, which is "intensifying and even getting out of control".
China has sought to position itself as a neutral party on the war in Ukraine, while maintaining close ties with its strategic ally Russia.
Beijing has pledged to publish a proposal aimed at finding a "political solution" to end ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 10, 2022 
Computer chips are packed with billions of microscopic transistors that enable powerful computation, but also generate a great deal of heat. A buildup of heat can slow a computer processor and make it less efficient and reliable. Engineers employ heat sinks to keep chips cool, sometimes along with fans or liquid cooling systems; however, these methods often require a lot of energy to operate. ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Feb 16, 2023 
Four Iraqi soldiers were killed Thursday during a counter-terrorism operation north of Baghdad, security forces said, as the majority-Shiite country marks a key religious rite.
Clashes broke out in Tarmiya, an agricultural area about 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the capital where Islamic State group fighters operate.
The raid came as hundreds of thousands of pilgrims descended on the Ka ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 21, 2023 
Russia's step back from a key arms control treaty is a blow to efforts to cap nuclear stockpiles, but does not immediately heighten the risk of nuclear war, experts said Tuesday.
President Vladimir Putin's announcement that he was halting cooperation under the New START treaty should be understood as another attempt to put pressure on Western countries supplying Ukraine with weapons and mone ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 
Asian markets sank Wednesday following hefty losses on Wall Street as still-strong economic data fanned expectations that US interest rates will go higher and stay there longer than expected.
Traders are now awaiting the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting hoping for an idea about officials' views on how much and how far to lift borrowing costs.
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 Beirut (AFP) Feb 20, 2023  Two weeks after a deadly earthquake struck Syria, only a trickle of UN aid has entered the rebel-held northwest of the war-ravaged country, with the slow pace sparking outrage and anger.
The 7.8-magnitude quake killed more than 44,000 people in Turkey and Syria, including 3,600 in Syria, piling more misery on a population who activists say has been abandoned by the world in the midst of trag ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 16, 2023 
Multiple engineering experiments are currently underway, or poised to begin, at a cabinet on China's space station which is in a near-Earth orbit. These experiments aim to acquire know-how that can support more experimental possibilities and human survival in outer space.
The Space Basic Experiment Cabinet mounted on the country's space lab module Mengtian is carrying its first group of fi ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 18, 2023 
With China's dropping of its "zero-Covid" policy, makeshift quarantine centres and testing booths are being repurposed as mini-libraries, information points or even housing.
Since Beijing suddenly abandoned its hardline virus control measures in December after almost three years, cities across China have been left with tens of thousands of the temporary structures.
Some of the metal or p ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 2, 2023 
A Pakistani who was tortured by the CIA and held in the Guantanamo Bay prison for 16 years after admitting to helping Al Qaeda was released to Belize, the US military announced Thursday.
Majid Khan, captured by US authorities in 2003 and interrogated by US intelligence for three years before being sent to Guantanamo, admitted in a 2012 plea deal to joining a plot to assassinate Pakistan's pr ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 14, 2023  The United States on Monday criticized China's reported use of military-grade laser light against a Philippine coast guard vessel in the disputed South China Sea last week, which left the ship's crew temporarily blinded.
State Department Ned Price said the Chinese coastguard's "conduct was provocative and unsafe, resulting in the temporary blindness of the crew members."
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