 |
 |
| December 26, 2013 |
 The Athena-Fidus satellite is readied for Arianespace first heavy-lift mission of 2014 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Dec 26, 2013 - The multi-role Athena-Fidus satellite has completed initial checkout at the Spaceport as it is readied for a dual-payload, geostationary transfer orbit launch on Arianespace's first flight in 2014. To be lofted January 23 from French Guiana along with the ABS-2 spacecraft aboard a heavy-lift Arianespace Ariane 5, this mission will commence a very busy 2014 - with 12 to 14 launches in prepa ... more |  |
 Rocket Rokot brings 3 Russian military-purpose satellites on orbit Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 26, 2013 - The rocket Rokot has brought three Russian military-purpose satellites on the orbit. The satellites were given the numbers Kosmos-2488, Kosmos-2489 and Kosmos-2490, representative of the press service of the Russian Defence Ministry and the Aerospace Defence Troops Colonel Dmitry Zenin said on Wednesday. "The satellites were successfully brought on the designated orbit at the scheduled tim ... more |  |
 AF selects officers for space leadership roles San Antonio Texas (AFNS) Dec 26, 2013 - More than three dozen officers have been selected for calendar year 2014 space operations director of operations, detachment commander and director of space forces positions, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced. Nominees, considered by the developmental team in November, were assessed for exceptional leadership skills and ability to set the example through unquestioned integrity ... more |  |
 Images show N. Korea efforts to restart nuclear complex Seoul (AFP) Dec 24, 2013 - Satellite imagery suggests North Korea is making "wide-ranging, extensive" efforts to fully reactivate its main nuclear complex, a US think tank said Tuesday, in line with Pyongyang's vows to strengthen its weapons programme. Recent images show work at the Yongbyon nuclear compound apparently aimed at producing fuel rods to be used in a plutonium reactor, Johns Hopkins University's US-Korea ... more |  |
 Japan's PM set for breakthrough on controversial US base Tokyo (AFP) Dec 25, 2013 - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks set to win approval from Okinawa this week for the long-stalled relocation of a US military base after a meeting Wednesday with the island's pugnacious governor. A deal with Okinawa would end a long-running dispute that has been a source of friction with Washington and also mark a significant achievement for Abe, who has sought closer US ties amid a ... more |  |
 | |
 Raytheon awarded $12.9 million Cooperative Engagement Capability contract Tewksbury, MA (SPX) Dec 26, 2013 - Raytheon has been awarded a $12,921,937 modification to a previously awarded contract to exercise options for Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) for the AN/USG-2B Shipboard System and three planar array antenna assembly systems. CEC is a sensor netting system that significantly improves battle force anti-air warfare capability by extracting and distributing sensor-derived information ... more |  |
 US drone strike kills three in northwest Pakistan Miranshah, Pakistan (AFP) Dec 25, 2013 - A US drone strike targeting a militant compound killed at least three suspected insurgents in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border late Wednesday, officials said. The attack took place around midnight in Qutab Khel village, five kilometres (three miles) south of Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan tribal region, a stronghold for Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked milita ... more |  |
Kim urges N. Korea military to bolster combat readiness Seoul (AFP) Dec 25, 2013 - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has urged the country's military to bolster its combat readiness, saying a war could break out "without any prior notice", state media reported Wednesday. The call comes at a time of heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula following the execution of Kim's uncle and former mentor in an unusually public purge. Kim visited the Command of Large Combined Un ... more |  |
Iran MPs want higher enrichment in case of new sanctions Tehran (AFP) Dec 25, 2013 - Iranian lawmakers presented a bill to the parliament's presiding board which could oblige the government to enrich uranium to 60 percent if new sanctions are imposed, media reported Wednesday. "If the other negotiating parties ratchet up the sanctions, impose new sanctions or violate our country's nuclear right, this bill will immediately oblige the government to... launch the Arak heavy wat ... more |  |
 Bomb hits Iraq defence minister's convoy, wounds two Baghdad (AFP) Dec 24, 2013 - A bomb struck the acting Iraqi defence minister's convoy west of Baghdad on Tuesday, wounding two of his guards, the ministry said. The roadside bomb hit Saadun al-Dulaimi's convoy as it travelled between Fallujah and Ramadi, "wounding two of his guards and damaging one of the vehicles," the ministry said on its website. It did not specify whether or not Dulaimi was travelling in the con ... more |  |
 | |
 Outside View: America and the Kurds London (UPI) Dec 23, 2013 - The most common question asked as a regular visitor to Iraqi Kurdistan is whether it or all Kurds can, will or wish to be independent. It reflects the long struggle of the Kurds to maintain their identity in often hostile circumstances but it is looking at the issue the wrong way round. Complex cases are often framed overseas by a somewhat simplistic folk memory that hasn't kept up with ... more |  |
Market bombing, spate of attacks kill 44 in Iraq Baghdad (AFP) Dec 25, 2013 - Attacks, including bombs that exploded in a market near a church in Baghdad, killed at least 44 people across Iraq on Wednesday, officials said. The bloodletting comes as Iraq suffers its worst violence since 2008, when it was just emerging from a brutal period of sectarian killings. "Two roadside bombs exploded in a popular market in Dura, killing 35 people and wounding 56," interior mi ... more |  |
Mao fans bow before gold image of Communist China's founder Shaoshan, China (AFP) Dec 25, 2013 - Thousands of admirers of Communist China's founder Mao Zedong flocked to his home town Wednesday to bow before his graven image - including one statue of solid gold - before his 120th birth anniversary. Pilgrims from across the country lit firecrackers and offered flowers in Shaoshan, where Mao was born 120 years ago Thursday, to celebrate a man blamed for tens of millions of deaths but wi ... more |  |
 Syria air strikes kill 15 in hard-hit Aleppo Damascus (AFP) Dec 24, 2013 - Syrian air strikes killed 15 people, including three children, in Aleppo Tuesday, as the regime pressed a blistering 10-day bombing campaign that has killed hundreds, threatening planned peace talks. One activist in Aleppo described the past 10 days as "the most violent in the whole of the Syrian revolution," a war that has claimed more than 126,000 lives since March 2011 and displaced milli ... more |  |
Japan PM Abe to visit Yasukuni war shrine Tokyo (AFP) Dec 26, 2013 - Japan's nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to visit Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni war shrine on Thursday morning, his office said. "The office is aware that the prime minister plans to visit the shrine today," said a spokesman at the Prime Minister's Office, adding that it was not a matter that was being officially announced. The visit will come exactly one year after he took powe ... more |  |
| ADVERTISEMENT + A Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison Report  Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison The Temperflow? uses a patent pending technology that allows body heat to ventilate out the mattress, while cooler air can flow back into the mattress. See www.Temperflow.com for more information about how their technology works. Or read our comparison report on two different memory foam mattress products.+ Buy a Temperflow? bed today and sleep better tonight! | |
 Israeli researchers say Samsung S4 phone has security vulnerability Be'Er Sheva, Israel (UPI) Dec 24, 2013 - Samsung's flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4, has a security flaw that could let malicious software track emails and record data communications, experts say. Researchers at Ben-Gurion University's Cyber Security Labs say the S4's Knox security platform - which Samsung has been pitching to agencies like the U.S. Department of Defense as making the S4 safe for secure communications - co ... more |  |
Officials in Beijing suburb build Kremlin copy Beijing (AFP) Dec 24, 2013 - Local officials in a Beijing suburb have built themselves a white-walled, gold-domed office complex resembling Moscow's Kremlin, state media reported, prompting anger among Chinese who condemned the lavish buildings. Photos published by the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper show the sprawling complex, whose arched windows and gleaming spires resemble those of the Cathedral of the Annunciation in ... more |  |
Six women among Uighurs killed in Xinjiang clash: rights groups Beijing (AFP) Dec 24, 2013 - Six Uighur women were among 16 people killed in a clash in China's restive Xinjiang region last week, campaign groups said, contradicting Beijing's version of events. The Munich-based World Uyghur Congress and Radio Free Asia, which is funded by the US government, said that police raided a house where an extended family was gathering. Xinjiang, in China's far west, is home to the mainl ... more |  |
Pakistan, Indian army commanders meet on Kashmir Islamabad (AFP) Dec 24, 2013 - Leading army commanders from Pakistan and India met Tuesday for the first time in 14 years in a bid to reduce tensions in the disputed region of Kashmir after a year of intermittent clashes. The directors general of military operations (DGMO) from both nuclear-armed neighbours held face-to-face talks at Wagah border post, near the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. The past year has seen ... more |  |
Egypt army says it foiled Hamas Sinai attack Cairo (AFP) Dec 25, 2013 - The Egyptian army said Wednesday it had foiled a plan by Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas to attack a strategic security building in North Sinai, where militants have increased activity in recent months. A member of the movement revealed the plan when the army interrogated him, military spokesman Colonel Ahmed Ali said in a statement. Ali said the army arrested "a Palestinian belongin ... more |  |
| ||||
| ||||||||
No comments :
Post a Comment