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| October 14, 2013 |
 End of an era at US Space Command Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - The 21st Space Wing closed the Air Force Space Surveillance System due to resource constraints caused by sequestration, marking the end of its 52 years of service to the Space Situational Awareness mission, Oct. 1. The Air Force Space Surveillance System was designed to transmit a "fence" of radar energy vertically into space to detect all objects passing through that fence. It operated fr ... more |  |
 Russia Appoints New Space Chief Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 15, 2013 - Former Deputy Defense Minister Oleg Ostapenko will head up Russia's Federal Space Agency, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday. The move comes as part of a major reshuffle of the country's troubled space industry. During a meeting with Ostapenko Thursday, Medvedev said he hoped that, as head of the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, Ostapenko will help streamline the country's space p ... more |  |
 US Navy Next Gen Air And Missile Defense Radar Contract Awarded Tewksbury MA (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Raytheon has been awarded a $385,742,176 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the engineering and modeling development phase design, development, integration, test and delivery of Air and Missile Defense S-Band Radar (AMDR-S) and Radar Suite Controller (RSC). AMDR is the Navy's next generation integrated air and missile defense radar and is being designed for Flight III Arleigh Burke (DDG ... more |  |
 US senators to ice new sanctions if Iran ends enrichment Washington (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - US senators have vowed to stay the implementation of new Iran sanctions if Tehran takes verifiable steps such as immediately halting uranium enrichment, ahead of a new round of talks on its suspect nuclear program. In a letter sent to President Barack Obama last week, a group of leading Democratic and Republican senators said they would be prepared to match Iran's actions and hold off threat ... more |  |
 UN frets over Syria deadlines as treaty takes effect United Nations, United States (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - The United Nations said Monday "the race is on" to make sure Syria keeps to deadlines to destroy its chemical weapons as a key treaty took effect for Damascus. The Chemical Weapons Convention came into force for Syria on Monday. That is one month after the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) accepted President Bashar al-Assad application, submitted in a bid to he ... more |  |
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Syrians find safety for Eid al-Adha holiday in Iraq Kawergosk , Iraq (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Shaqlawa Mohammed Rashid sits at the entrance of a white tent in a refugee camp in northern Iraq, reflecting on what will be her first Eid al-Adha holiday outside Syria. The 16-year-old girl smiles at her mother Barshan, who sits next to her on a dusty carpet with a cloth covering half her face to shield it from the sun and dust, and whispers comfortingly: "Our situation here is temporary." ... more |  |
 West Bank killings heighten fears of new intifada Ramallah, West Bank (UPI) Oct 14, 2013 - With three Israelis killed in the West Bank in as many weeks and new clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police at Jerusalem's flashpoint holy sites there are growing concerns that another Palestinian intifada is brewing. The dwindling prospects of a U.S.-brokered peace agreement amid the ever-expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank, occupied by the Israelis since J ... more |  |
 Japan says parts export to UK navy not illegal: reports Tokyo (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Japan has approved the sale of engine parts for use by the British Royal Navy, saying it would not violate arms exports by Tokyo, press reports said Monday. The gas turbine parts manufactured by Kawasaki Heavy Industries will be produced for Rolls-Royce which will then supply them to the Royal Navy, the business daily Nikkei and Kyodo News said. The government said the parts were not dee ... more |  |
Army army defuses car bomb in Beirut Hebollah bastion Beirut (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - The Lebanese army defused a car bomb on Monday in the southern Beirut stronghold of Hezbollah, the military said in a statement, weeks after it was hit by two bombings. The army said it called in bomb disposal experts after spotting a suspicious vehicle in the Maamura area of Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday afternoon. "The vehicle turned out to be rigged with explosives," it said, ad ... more |  |
Iran says hopes 'roadmap' agreed in nuclear talks with P5+1 Tehran (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Iran's foreign minister said he hoped a "roadmap" for negotiations could be reached in nuclear talks with world powers this week but added that a higher-level meeting would probably be needed. The Geneva talks, set to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, will be the first such negotiations since President Hassan Rouhani, a reputed moderate, took office in August. "I hope that we will be ... more |  |
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 Brazil to create its own email system after protesting U.S. spying Brasilia, Brazil (UPI) Oct 14, 2013 - Brazil says it will develop its own in-house email system to strengthen privacy and avoid spying it blames on the United States. The country will ditch Microsoft Outlook and develop its own new, custom platform, CNET reported Monday. The move comes following revelations that communications between Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her key aides have been monitored by the U.S ... more |  |
Easing Iran sanctions would be 'historic mistake': Israel Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Easing pressure on Iran over its nuclear programme would be an "historic mistake," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Monday, a day before world powers resume talks with Tehran. "It would be an historic mistake to ease up on the pressure now, a moment before the sanctions achieve their objective, and particularly now, we must not give up on them but continue the pressure," ... more |  |
Libyan Al-Qaeda suspect in US: attorney New York City (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - A Libyan Al-Qaeda suspect snatched from Tripoli by US commandos and interrogated on an American warship, has been brought to New York to face trial, a prosecutor said Monday. Anas al-Libi is expected to appear in court on Tuesday in New York where he has been indicted over the 1998 US embassy bombing in Kenya that killed 213 people. The car bombing on August 7 1998 wounded 5,000 and an a ... more |  |
 Studies: Cargo aircraft demand to rise; light military helos to drop Paris (UPI) Oct 14, 2013 - There's good news and bad news for aircraft manufacturers in two new, separate projections by Airbus of France and Forecast International of the United States. On the plus side, Airbus predicts worldwide air freight traffic will grow by an average of 4.8 per cent annually over the next 20 years, almost doubling the required global freighter fleet to nearly 3,000 aircraft. On the ... more |  |
 Kurd leader says still hopeful of Turkey peace deal Ankara (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan said Monday he was still hopeful a peace deal with the Turkish state was possible but argued that Ankara needed to shift the process into a new gear. "The process that we started last year has great meaning," the leader of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said in a statement relayed by pro-Kurdish lawmakers who visited him in prison. "I ... more |  |
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Ahead of talks, Iran rejects shipping out uranium Tehran (AFP) Oct 13, 2013 - Iran will not agree to ship out its stockpile of enriched uranium, one of its main negotiators said Sunday ahead of crunch talks with world powers on its nuclear programme. "We will negotiate about the volume, levels and the methods of enrichment but shipping out the (enriched) material is a red line for Iran," deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi told the state broadcaster. The remarks ... more |  |
Several top websites use device fingerprinting to secretly track users Leuven, Belgium (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - A new study by KU Leuven-iMinds researchers has uncovered that 145 of the Internet's 10,000 top websites track users without their knowledge or consent. The websites use hidden scripts to extract a device fingerprint from users' browsers. Device fingerprinting circumvents legal restrictions imposed on the use of cookies and ignores the Do Not Track HTTP header. The findings suggest that secret t ... more |  |
Israel to make helmets for US F-35 fighter Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 13, 2013 - An Israeli company has been selected to take part in manufacturing hi-tech helmets for pilots of the US F-35 stealth fighter, Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said Sunday. He said in a statement that Elbit Systems and its US partner Rockwell Collins have been chosen by the Pentagon and F35 manufacturer Lockheed Martin to supply helmets for the next generation of the Joint Strike Fighter ... more |  |
 'De-Americanised' world needed after US Shutdown: China media Beijing (AFP) Oct 13, 2013 - While US politicians grapple with how to reopen their shuttered government and avoid a potentially disastrous default on their debt, the world should consider 'de-Americanising', a commentary on China's official news agency said Sunday. "As US politicians of both political parties (fail to find a) viable deal to bring normality to the body politic they brag about, it is perhaps a good time f ... more |  |
North Korea warns of 'all-out war' Seoul (AFP) Oct 12, 2013 - North Korea on Saturday issued a fresh warning of an "all-out war", urging the United States to stop military drills and what it described as "nuclear blackmail". In a thinly veiled threat to strike the United States, the North's National Defence Commission (NDC), chaired by leader Kim Jong-Un, said the US government must withdraw its policy of hostility against the North if it wants peace o ... more |  |
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