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  Rebkong County, China (AFP) March 4, 2018 Despite a few elbows to the face, Tsering pushed through the broil of Tibetan worshippers and lifted her bawling two-year-old over the mad crush, briefly pressing the girl's forehead to a passing sacred scroll. Scores of monks and men heaved the enormous thangka - an image of Buddha painted on silk, rolled up in a tight cylinder while in transit - through the packed streets around Rongwo Monastery in China's northwestern province of Qinghai for a religious ritual wrapping up Losar, the Tibetan new ... read more |
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Avaada Power commits bllion to Uttar Pradesh solar projectsLucknow, India (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 Avaada Power Pvt. Ltd, India's leading clean energy company, has signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Uttar Pradesh to invest USD 1.55 billion in the state for developi ... more  
India seeks custody of fugitive arrested in Hong KongNew Delhi (AFP) Feb 27, 2018 Indian police said Tuesday they are seeking custody of a fugitive arrested in Hong Kong who is wanted for a daring jailbreak in Punjab that freed a militant and for a string of other crimes. ... more  
Brothers look to harness artificial intelligence for greater goodSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 As debate swirls on whether artificial intelligence will be a boon or a curse for humanity, two Indian-American entrepreneur brothers are out to ensure the emerging technologies don't just benefit the richest in society. ... more 
China rules out arson in Tibetan temple fireBeijing (AFP) Feb 22, 2018 Chinese authorities have ruled out arson as the cause of a recent fire at Tibetan Buddhism's holiest temple, state media reported Thursday, adding an important Buddha statue had emerged "intact" from the blaze. ... more |
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Dutch shipping bosses in court over 'toxic' ship dumpingThe Hague (AFP) Feb 13, 2018 Six Dutch shipping company bosses will appear before a Rotterdam court Wednesday accused of deliberately dumping old ships on the beaches of India and Turkey. ... more  
Russia, India may sign contract on S-400 air defense systems supplies soonNew Delhi (Sputnik) Feb 12, 2018 Negotiations between Russia and India on the supplies of S-400 air defense systems are "at the final stage," the contract may be signed any day now, Russian Ambassador to India Nikolay Kudashev told ... more  
Chinese company hitches space ride on UK satelliteBeijing (XNA) Feb 12, 2018 A United Kingdom satellite company has secured a 25-million-pound ($35 million) contract to lend a high-resolution Earth observation spacecraft to a Chinese partner for seven years. Beijing-ba ... more 
Mercedes apologises to China after quoting Dalai LamaBeijing (AFP) Feb 7, 2018 German automaker Mercedes-Benz has apologised for "hurting the feelings" of people in China after its Instagram account quoted Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, seen as a separatist by Beijing. ... more  
India Prepares For Second Lunar Mission with Chandrayaan-2New Delhi (Sputnik) Feb 08, 2018 India's space agency, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), is prepping for its second mission to the moon, which is scheduled for blast off around April 2018. The objective for the v ... more |
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Gandhi nonviolence a tough sell in Trump era, says grandsonParis (AFP) Jan 29, 2018 Seventy years ago, a 12-year-old boy seething with resentment over his treatment in apartheid South Africa was sent to his grandfather in rural India on an anger management course. ... more  |
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New Mumbai metro will beat traffic, but at what cost?Mumbai (AFP) Jan 21, 2018 A new underground metro is expected to ease the burden on Mumbai's notoriously congested roads and railways, but not everybody in India's sprawling financial capital is happy about the multi-billion-dollar project. ... more  
Stressed-out Dhaka to get 'Anger Management Park'Dhaka (AFP) Jan 28, 2018 Bangladesh started work Sunday on an "anger management park" in the capital Dhaka which the mayor said would help the 15 million inhabitants cope with rising daily stress. ... more  
Expert behind new MH370 search hopeful of find within a monthSydney (AFP) Jan 24, 2018 After years of futile efforts, a fresh hunt for MH370 has set off for the remote Indian Ocean - and the top Australian scientist who helped pinpoint the new search zone is hopeful the missing jet can be found within weeks. ... more
New hunt for flight MH370 gets under wayKuala Lumpur (AFP) Jan 23, 2018 A new hunt for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 using high-tech underwater drones has started, officials said Tuesday, in the latest bid to solve one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. ... more  
Iran reviewing data recorder from sunken Sanchi oil tankerWashington (UPI) Jan 29, 2018 A committee set up to examine what happened to the Sanchi oil tanker, an Iranian vessel that sank in mid-January, said Monday it's looking at black box data. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 1, 2018  Lockheed Martin has been awarded two contracts worth more than $155 million for work on the F-35 fighter fleets of the United States and foreign customers.
The Department of Defense announced on Wednesday that it has awarded a $148.7 million contract for logistics services for all branches of the U.S. military and foreign customers, as well as $7.4 million for the sustainment of the U.S ... more |
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) March 2, 2018 
German computer chip maker Infineon said Friday it is teaming up with China's biggest car maker, SAIC Motor Corporation, to produce power modules for the Chinese electric car market, the world's biggest.
Infineon said in a statement it will hold a 49-percent stake in the new Shanghai-based company, SAIC Infineon Automotive Power Modules (SIAPM), which will make inverters - vital parts that ... more |
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 San Juan (AFP) March 1, 2018 
Puerto Rico's power grid broke down again on Thursday, leaving some 800,000 customers without power, as the US Caribbean possession struggles to recover five months after Hurricane Maria slammed the island.
Justo Gonzalez, head of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), said that one of the island's main transmission lines was out of service. Officials said the line should be fully ... more |
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 Matsumoto, Japan (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 
A collaborative team of researchers from Shinshu University in Japan have found a new way to curb some of the potential dangers posed by lithium ion batteries.
The team, led by Susumu Arai, a professor of the department of materials chemistry and head of Division for Application of Carbon Materials at the Institute of Carbon Science and Technology at Shinshu University, published their res ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 28, 2018 
An American legislator has expressed concern over the Trump administration's efforts to sign a nuclear cooperation accord with Saudi Arabia, which is preparing to build its first reactors.
Riyadh plans to announce at the beginning of March who will construct the first two of up to 16 reactors, and negotiations are under way with the United States for its agreement to export technology needed ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 
Long ago, about 400,000 years after the beginning of the universe (the Big Bang), the universe was dark. There were no stars or galaxies, and the universe was filled primarily with neutral hydrogen gas.
Then, for the next 50-100 million years, gravity slowly pulled the densest regions of gas together until ultimately the gas collapsed in some places to form the first stars.
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 Berlin (AFP) Feb 27, 2018  Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday said she saw "no violations" in a major investment by a Chinese billionaire in German car giant Daimler which has reignited concern over Chinese influence on European firms.
"We are open to trade partners and at first glance do not see any violations," Merkel told reporters in Berlin, days after Chinese billionaire Li Shufu bought a near 10-percent stake i ... more |
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 Kabul (AFP) March 1, 2018 
The United States welcomes Afghan plans for peace talks with the Taliban but will keep up pressure on the militants until they are concluded, the US ambassador said Thursday.
After an international peace conference in Kabul, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday unveiled a plan to open talks with the Taliban, including eventually recognising them as a political party.
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 Austin TX (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 
Research conducted by The University of Texas at Austin and University of California, Berkeley has found that a little-studied, underground layer of rock can hold significant amounts of water that may serve as a vital reservoir for trees, especially in times of drought. The study, published in the journal PNAS looked at the water stored inside the layer of weathered bedrock that commonly lies un ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Feb 28, 2018 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday accused Washington of training Europeans in the use of nuclear weapons, with the aim of using them against his country.
"Nuclear disarmament is hampered by the US non-strategic nuclear weapons in Europe," Lavrov told the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.
Russia's top diplomat took particular issue with "nuclear so-called sharing ... more |
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 Rebkong County, China (AFP) March 4, 2018 
Despite a few elbows to the face, Tsering pushed through the broil of Tibetan worshippers and lifted her bawling two-year-old over the mad crush, briefly pressing the girl's forehead to a passing sacred scroll.
Scores of monks and men heaved the enormous thangka - an image of Buddha painted on silk, rolled up in a tight cylinder while in transit - through the packed streets around Rongwo M ... more |
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 Bamako (AFP) Feb 28, 2018  Families on Wednesday accused Mali's military of killing seven civilians during an operation in the centre of the country a week earlier, as the government opened an enquiry into the deaths.
In a separate incident in the same region, six Malian soldiers were killed on Tuesday when their vehicle struck a mine, the army said on Wednesday, and a forest ranger was gunned down in a third incident ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 28, 2018 
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had signed the country's new state arms procurement program, which includes, among other things, robotics, intelligence systems, UAVs and precision ammunition.
"Yes, the document has been signed by the president," Rogozin said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper, when asked a relevant ques ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 27, 2018 
Raytheon has been awarded a contract for logistic support for the Navy's Phalanx close-in-weapon system.
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $48 million under a previous modified contract.
The modified contract will furnish "repaired and new units for 1,041 line items under prescribed performance metrics in response to Fleet requisition ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 
Three members of the Expedition 54 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS), including NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba, returned to Earth on Tuesday after months of performing research and spacewalks in low-Earth orbit.
Vande Hei, Acaba and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed at 9:31 p.m. EST (8:31 a.m. Feb. 28 in Kazakhstan) sout ... more |
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