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  New Delhi (AFP) July 11, 2017 At least five people were killed and 10 missing Tuesday after a massive landslide buried homes in a remote village in northeast India, a disaster management official said. An avalanche of mud and rock struck the village after weeks of heavy rain in Papum Pare district in the Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh along the border with China. Jokey Angu, head of the state's disaster management authority, told AFP rescue teams were trying to find survivors beneath the rubble of eight homes buried u ... read more |
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India Plans to Roll Out National GPS Next YearNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017 The Indian Space Research Organisation is set to offer GPS from its own navigation system for mobile users from next year, aiming to make it more accurate than foreign competitors' products. T ... more  
U.S., Japan, India start Malabar 2017 joint naval exercisesWashington (UPI) Jul 7, 2017 The United States, Japan and India have started a week-long series of joint naval exercises involving ships and aircraft from all three nations, the U.S. Navy announced Friday. ... more  
With demolitions, China squeezes Buddhist academySertar, China (AFP) July 6, 2017 The hills around revered Tibetan Buddhist academy Larung Gar were once a seamless carpet of vibrant red, dominated by the homes of thousands of monks, nuns and devotees who crowded the remote valley in southwest China to explore their faith. ... more  
Rivers do not have same rights as humans: India's top courtNew Delhi (AFP) July 7, 2017 India's sacred Ganges and Yamuna rivers cannot be considered "living entities", the country's top court ruled Friday, suspending an earlier order that granted them the same legal rights as humans. ... more |
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Indian troop withdrawal 'precondition' for peace: ChinaBeijing (AFP) July 5, 2017 China warned Wednesday that the withdrawal of Indian troops from disputed territory was a precondition for peace as tensions rise in a border row between the two Asian powers that has drawn in tiny Bhutan. ... more  
Modi, Netanyahu seek to deepen ties on first visit by an Indian PMJerusalem (AFP) July 5, 2017 Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday on the first ever visit by an Indian premier to Israel as they sought to deepen ties beyond high-priced defence deals. ... more  
Space Debris Mitigation Mission Successfully Launched on June 23rd, 2017Fino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 D-Sat, the first nanosatellite with the ability to remove itself from orbit in a direct and controlled way through a dedicated device at the end of its mission, was successfully launched on Friday J ... more 
Indian chopper goes missing near China borderNew Delhi (AFP) July 4, 2017 An Indian helicopter with three people on board has gone missing near the country's border with China after taking off on a flood rescue mission, an official said Tuesday. ... more
Modi begins first ever Israel visit by an Indian PMJerusalem (AFP) July 4, 2017 Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Israel Tuesday for what he called a "groundbreaking" first ever visit by an Indian premier, with growing ties between the two countries including billion of dollars in defence deals. ... more  
Table top plasma gets wind of solar turbulenceMumbai, India (SPX) Jul 03, 2017 Turbulent magnetic field dynamics that explain astrophysical phenomena like the evolution of stars could thus far be obtained only through observations via telescopes and satellites. Now a tea ... more |
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Sri Lanka deploys troops to tackle dengue crisisColombo (AFP) July 2, 2017 Sri Lanka deployed hundreds of soldiers to destroy mosquito breeding grounds as the country battles the spread of deadly dengue fever that has killed a record 215 people this year, officials said Sunday. ... more  
Air pollution casts shadow over solar energy productionDurham NC (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 Global solar energy production is taking a major hit due to air pollution and dust. According to a new study, airborne particles and their accumulation on solar cells are cutting energy output ... more  
India, Portugal Shake Hands on Space CooperationNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jun 28, 2017 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Lisbon agreed with Portuguese authorities on creation of alliance to advance space research, the Indian Foreign Ministry said in a statement o ... more
India warns China over border road 'security' threatNew Delhi (AFP) June 30, 2017 India condemned a new road that China is building on the rivals' Himalayan border on Friday, saying it raises "serious security" concerns. ... more |
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  Washington (UPI) Jul 3, 2017 
Sikorsky Aircraft has been awarded a $3.8 billion contract for the manufacturing and support of UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The planned multi-year production run of Black Hawks, announced on June 30 by the Department of Defense, includes program management, systems engineering, and technical data on the aircraft.
Work will be performed in Stratfo ... more Washington (UPI) Jun 20, 2017Boeing announces Rolls-Royce engine contract  Washington (UPI) Jul 6, 2017Boeing receives contract for Dutch, Turkish CH-47 Chinook parts  Washington (UPI) Jul 10, 2017Boeing receives contract for engineering, support of E-3 Sentry |
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 Osnabruck, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2017 
Can a self-driving vehicle be moral, act like humans do, or act like humans expect humans to? Contrary to previous thinking, a ground-breaking new study has found for the first time that human morality can be modelled meaning that machine based moral decisions are, in principle, possible.
The research, Virtual Reality experiments investigating human behavior and moral assessments, from The ... more Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) July 10, 2017German 'dieselgate' investigators target Porsche employees  Blacksburg VA (SPX) Jul 12, 2017Forget defrosting your car at a glacial pace  Paris (AFP) July 6, 2017France 'to end sales of petrol, diesel vehicles by 2040' |
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 Washington (AFP) July 7, 2017 
Google parent Alphabet is spinning off a little-known unit working on geothermal power called Dandelion, which will begin offering residential energy services.
The announcement Thursday took the wraps off one of the secretive projects at the Alphabet unit X, known notably for its work on self-driving cars and internet balloons.
Dandelion chief executive Kathy Hannun said her team had bee ... more San Diego CA (SPX) Jun 27, 2017Fighting global warming and climate change requires a broad energy portfolio  (UPI) Jun 12, 2017Low-carbon trajectory is the only option, European leaders say Washington (UPI) Jun 8, 2017Divestment streak continues for British energy company Centrica |
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Two major issues confronting magnetic-confinement fusion energy are enabling the walls of devices that house fusion reactions to survive bombardment by energetic particles, and improving confinement of the plasma required for the reactions. At the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), researchers have found that coating tokamak walls with lithium-- a light ... more Philadelphia PA (SPX) Jul 12, 2017Conductive electrodes are key to fast-charging batteries  Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jul 10, 2017Iron secrets behind superconductors unlocked  Raleigh NC (SPX) Jul 10, 2017Smart transformers could make reliable smart grid a reality |
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 Paris (AFP) July 10, 2017 
France's new environment minister said Monday that nearly a third of the country's nuclear reactors could be shut under plans to scale back the amount of electricity produced from atomic power.
In 2015, the previous Socialist-dominated parliament passed a law obliging the government to reduce the proportion of electricity generated from nuclear to 50 percent by 2025 compared with around 75 p ... more Paris (AFP) July 10, 2017Mitsubishi, Assystem take stakes in France's nuclear reactors firm  Brussels (AFP) July 12, 2017Britain must leave EU nuclear body: Verhofstadt  Cherbourg, France (AFP) July 5, 2017Sixth MOX nuclear shipment leaves France for Japan |
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 Lancaster UK (SPX) Jul 10, 2017 
Counterfeit products are a huge problem - from medicines to car parts, fake technology costs lives.
Every year, imports of counterfeited and pirated goods around the world cost nearly US $0.5 trillion in lost revenue.
Counterfeit medicines alone cost the industry over US $200 billion every year. They are also dangerous to our health - around a third contain no active ingredients, res ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 11, 2017China teleports quantum information to space, a first  Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Jul 10, 2017Neutrons detect elusive Higgs amplitude mode in quantum material  Stanford CA (SPX) Jul 07, 2017Scientists get first direct look at how electrons 'dance' with vibrating atoms |
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 Hamburg (AFP) July 8, 2017 
World leaders made concessions on trade and climate language to Donald Trump Saturday at the end of the most fractious and riot-hit G20 summit ever, in exchange for preserving a fragile unity of the club of major industrialised and emerging economies.
In a departure from final summit declarations that tend to outline consensus on issues that range from fighting terrorism to financial governa ... more Hong Kong (AFP) July 10, 2017China's COSCO in multi-billion buyout of Hong Kong rival  Shanghai (AFP) July 10, 2017China's Wanda agrees to mammoth asset sale to slash debt  Berlin (AFP) July 12, 2017Germany toughens rules on foreign buyouts in strategic sectors |
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A US soldier has been killed and two others wounded in an attack in Afghanistan's Helmand province while conducting operations against the Taliban, US military officials said Wednesday.
Private First Class Hansen Kirkpatrick, 19, of Wasilla, Alaska died Monday following the "indirect fire" assault, which means he was hit by a mortar or some other incoming round.
The wounds sustained ... more New York (AFP) July 6, 2017Egypt arrests dozens of Chinese Uighur students: HRW  Brussels (AFP) June 29, 2017Mattis says NATO must finish the job in Afghanistan  Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (AFP) June 28, 2017Kyrgyz court convicts three over China embassy attack |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 12, 2017 
A consortium of international scientists led by a climate expert from USC have upgraded an open-source global database tracking the Earth's temperatures since 1 A.D. that further confirms that the Earth is warming at a rate unprecedented in recent geologic history. The database by the PAGES 2k Consortium relies on proxy data such as tree rings, corals, glacier ice, marine sediment and other such ... more Beijing, China (SPX) Jul 07, 2017Two significant warming intervals in southern China since 1850  New York (AFP) July 12, 2017Bloomberg outlines plan to quantify US climate efforts Hamburg (AFP) July 9, 2017G20: Compromise on climate change, but at what cost? |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) July 10, 2017 
Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu received Monday a suspended two-month prison sentence and community work after a Jerusalem court decided against imprisoning him for a misdemeanour from over four years ago.
The 62-year-old former nuclear technician was jailed in 1986 for disclosing the inner workings of Israel's Dimona nuclear plant to Britain's Sunday Times newspaper.
He s ... more United Nations, United States (AFP) July 7, 2017122 countries adopt global treaty banning nuclear weapons  Seoul (AFP) July 8, 2017US bombers drill near Korea DMZ in show of force  Washington (AFP) July 9, 2017US vows to press China to enforce NKorea sanctions |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 10, 2017  China's cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo is in a critical condition, his hospital said Monday, raising fears about his life after Western doctors said there was time to take him abroad.
The First Hospital of China Medical University in the northeastern city of Shenyang said Liu's tumour has grown, his liver is bleeding and he has kidney problems.
The hospital said in a statement ... more Beijing (AFP) July 7, 2017Chinese court jails author of Tiananmen report: lawyer Sertar, China (AFP) July 6, 2017With demolitions, China squeezes Buddhist academy  Beijing (AFP) July 8, 2017Chinese Nobel laureate too sick to travel abroad: hospital |
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 Addis Ababa (AFP) July 5, 2017 
The African Union's new chair Moussa Faki Mahamat on Wednesday questioned US commitment to fighting terrorism on the continent after it blocked efforts to get UN funding for an anti-jihadist force in the Sahel.
"This is a specific case of a certain number of African states taking the initiative to create a dedicated force to fight terrorism. So, we don't understand how the United States coul ... more Bamako (AFP) July 6, 20173 killed in north Mali clashes as UN condemns violence  Banjul, Gambia (AFP) July 7, 2017Gambian army 'hostile elements' working against government  Krakow, Poland (AFP) July 4, 2017I.Coast's Comoe park no longer endangered: UNESCO |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 3, 2017 
Belgium's Council of Ministers have approved a request by Minister of Defense Steven Vandeput to acquire 199 Light Troop Transport Vehicles.
The purchase, approved on Friday, was part of an urgent renewal of vehicles operated by the country's Special Operations Forces and obtained in the early 1990s.
The Ministry of Defense said special operation forces act with speed, autonomy a ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 10, 2017OSI acquires Morpho explosive trace detection business  Washington (AFP) July 10, 2017Mosul victory marks win for Pentagon training plan  Washington (UPI) Jul 10, 2017Bahrain signs contract with Lockheed for sniper targeting pods |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 10, 2017 
Sweden's Defense Materiel Administration, FMV, has contracted boat-builder Dockstavarvet for 18 combat boats, with deliveries starting in late 2018, the company announced last week.
The new "M" variants of the Stridsbat 90 HS series feature upgraded drivelines, upgraded protection and preparation for new management systems and weapons stations, Dockstavarvet executives said in a press r ... moreWashington (UPI) Jul 7, 2017U.S., Japan, India start Malabar 2017 joint naval exercises  Hong Kong (AFP) July 7, 2017Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning arrives in Hong Kong  Washington (UPI) Jul 3, 2017Navy christens littoral combat ship USS Billings |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2017 
Founded in 2009, the Houston, Texas-based company NanoRacks LLC provides commercial hardware and services onboard the International Space Station (ISS) for government and commercial customers. To date, the firm has sent more than 550 payloads from over 30 countries to ISS, creating trends in commercial hardware in space. In an interview with Astrowatch.net, Jeffrey Manber, the founder and CEO of ... more Paris (ESA) Jul 10, 2017Counting calories in space  Cape Canaveral (AFP) July 9, 2017Trump offers bold space goals but fills in few details  Cape Canaveral (AFP) July 9, 2017Liftoff for Trump's bold space plans may have to wait |
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