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| January 20, 2014 |
 Boeing Transmits Protected Government Signal Through Military Satellite El Segundo CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - Boeing has applied new anti-jamming technology to an existing military satellite for the first time, expanding the military's potential to access secure communications more affordably. In the test conducted Dec. 15, Boeing successfully sent a government-developed, protected signal through the sixth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-6) satellite. Engineers confirmed that the signal met all target ... more |  |
 Lockheed Martin Completes Critical Milestone to Upgrade US Navy's Electronic Warfare Defenses Syracuse NY (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - Lockheed Martin recently completed a milestone test on the U.S. Navy's evolutionary Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 2 system. This test further validated the system's ability to protect the Navy's fleet from evolving anti-ship missile threats. Under SEWIP Block 2, Lockheed Martin will upgrade the AN/SLQ-32(V)2 system found on all U.S. aircraft carriers, cruiser ... more |  |
 Someday A Drone Might Save Your Life Cincinnati OH (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - In the not too distant future, you may hear the hum of a drone's rotors as it descends upon you and be filled with a sense of relief, not panic. After all, it's coming to save you, not harm you. Research at the University of Cincinnati could soon enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) - similar to U.S. military drones patrolling the skies of Afghanistan - to track down missing persons on se ... more |  |
 Lockheed Martin Tests LRASM MK 41 Vertical Launch System Interface Orlando, FL (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - Lockheed Martin recently demonstrated and validated that its Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) can be launched from any MK 41 Vertical Launch System (VLS) by only modifying the software to existing shipboard equipment. During the company-funded test, LRASM and Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control System (TTWCS), MK 41 VLS and Mk-114 booster hardware with modified software executed simulate ... more |  |
 New setback in Japan's bid to relocate US air base Tokyo (AFP) Jan 19, 2014 - Efforts to relocate a US base on Japan's Okinawa appeared to suffer a new setback Sunday, 17 years after they began, with the reported electoral victory of an opponent of the project. The mayor of the town of Nago on the east coast of Okinawa has won re-election, according to the TBS news station after the majority of votes were counted. Susumu Inamine, supported by several leftist parti ... more |  |
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 UK deports Taiwanese intelligence agent: government Taipei (AFP) Jan 19, 2014 - A young Taiwanese military intelligence officer who had been on the country's 'wanted' list after failing to return from an overseas trip has been deported by the British authorities, the government said. Yeh Mei, a lieutenant with Taiwan's Military Intelligence Agency was deported on Saturday for overstaying her visa and escorted to Taiwan by British personnel, the Taiwanese foreign ministr ... more |  |
 Zarif upbeat on eve of Iran nuclear deal implementation Tehran (AFP) Jan 19, 2014 - Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday he was hopeful the implementation of a landmark deal with world powers would lead to a lasting agreement over Iran's nuclear drive. The deal clinched in Geneva in November and finalised last week is to go into effect on Monday and puts temporary curbs on Iran's nuclear activities in exchange for modest sanctions relief. "I hope the ... more |  |
Iran nuclear deal comes into force as US sanctions loom Vienna (AFP) Jan 20, 2014 - Iran is due Monday to unplug key nuclear equipment for six months in return for a slight easing of crippling Western sanctions, as an interim deal between Tehran and world powers takes effect. This starts the clock on negotiating a trickier long-term accord aimed at ending the Iran nuclear standoff and averting war once and for all, a process threatened however by possible new US sanctions. ... more |  |
China memorial to Korean assassin sparks Japan feud Beijing (AFP) Jan 20, 2014 - A new Asian diplomatic row broke out Monday after China unveiled a memorial to a Korean national hero who assassinated a Japanese official a century ago - with Tokyo condemning him as a "terrorist". In 1909, Ahn Jung-Geun shot and killed Hirobumi Ito, Japan's first prime minister and its top official in Japanese-occupied Korea, at the railway station in the northeast Chinese city of Harbin. ... more |  |
 UAE to make military service compulsory: agency Abu Dhabi (AFP) Jan 19, 2014 - The UAE cabinet approved a draft law Sunday making it compulsory for Emirati men to serve in the military for up to two years, state news agency WAM reported. The "national and reserve service", optional for girls, will become mandatory for men aged between 18 and 30 years, WAM said, adding that the bill must still be approved by the consultative Federal National Council. Emirati men who ... more |  |
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Two Gazans hurt as Israel strike targets Islamic Jihad Jerusalem (AFP) Jan 19, 2014 - Two Palestinians were hurt, one critically, in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City on Sunday, which the military said had targeted a senior Islamic Jihad militant. The strike, the third in 12 hours, came a day after militants fired another rocket at southern Israel, prompting a sharp warning from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "We are determined to maintain quiet in the south. ... more |  |
 Iraqi forces assault gunmen in crisis-hit city Ramadi, Iraq (AFP) Jan 19, 2014 - Iraqi forces launched a major assault Sunday on a Sunni Arab city partially in the control of anti-government fighters in a bid to end a weeks-long crisis ahead of elections. The operation, which involved police, pro-government militiamen and SWAT forces, sought to wrest back key neighbourhoods of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province and one of two cities where the authorities lost vast swa ... more |  |
ISIL chief urges fighters to 'creep towards Baghdad' Baghdad (AFP) Jan 19, 2014 - An Al-Qaeda-linked group urged anti-government fighters locked in a deadly standoff with Iraqi forces to "creep towards Baghdad", in an audio message posted online Sunday. The remarks, purportedly from the head of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), come amid a weeks-long security crisis in Iraq's western province of Anbar where the authorities have lost control of an entire cit ... more |  |
'Diabolical' Arab countries behind Iraq strife: Maliki Baghdad (AFP) Jan 19, 2014 - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blamed "diabolical" and "treacherous" Arab countries for a protracted surge in nationwide violence in a speech on Sunday, but stopped short of naming individual countries. The premier said suicide bombers were coming to Iraq from as far afield as Morocco, Libya and Yemen, but did not single out countries he described as "evil" which he said were supporting ... more |  |
New limbs aid Syrians in long walk back from war Reyhanli, Turkey (AFP) Jan 20, 2014 - Omar Sheikhhamdu hoists himself up on prosthetic limbs and takes his first halting steps since a Syrian air strike tore off his legs nearly a year ago. Clinching waist-high bars on either side of him, the 19-year-old former university student will pace back and forth for five minutes before stopping to rest. That he is able to walk at all is down to the National Syrian Project for Prosth ... more |  |
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 Army retaliates after 20 Pakistan soldiers killed in bomb attack Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Jan 19, 2014 - Pakistan army helicopters fired missiles killing three militants on Sunday, officials said, in apparent retaliation for a Taliban bomb attack that killed 20 soldiers in the restive northwest. The helicopters fired at a road in the village of Musaki situated in the same tribal region as the bombing earlier Sunday, intelligence and civil administration officials said. One of the missiles s ... more |  |
Putin downplays planned no-show of key Western leaders at Sochi Games Moscow (AFP) Jan 19, 2014 - Russian President Vladimir Putin downplayed Sunday the planned no-show of key Western leaders at the Winter Olympics in Sochi and stressed that gays were welcome as he prepared to host one of the most controversial Games in modern history. The Russian leader also criticised attempts to politicise the top sports event, saying sporting events should be used to foster international cooperation. ... more |  |
Turkey briefly stops suspicious trucks near Syria border Istanbul (AFP) Jan 19, 2014 - Turkish security forces on Sunday stopped and searched seven trucks near the Syrian border suspected to be loaded with weapons - but let them go when they discovered Turkish intelligence personnel on board, according to media and officials. Local media reported that a big contingent of security officers stopped the trucks and briefly detained three of the drivers. However the local gove ... more |  |
Blast near Pakistan military HQ kills four: officials Rawalpindi, Pakistan (AFP) Jan 20, 2014 - A suspected suicide bombing in a market close to Pakistan's military headquarters on Monday killed at least four people, officials said, a day after one of the deadliest attacks on security forces in recent years. Police and military officials said Monday's attack near the heavily fortified complex in Rawalpindi, Islamabad's twin city, may have involved a suicide bomber. It came a day af ... more |  |
Seven detained as Turkish forces raid Kurdish town Istanbul (AFP) Jan 19, 2014 - Turkish security forces on Sunday raided a Kurdish town where the army launched a botched air strike in 2011 that killed dozens of people including children, local media reported. Seven people were detained in the dawn raid on houses in Uludere near the Iraqi border in southeastern Turkey, Hurriyet newspaper reported on its website. It said the action was believed to be related to a prot ... more |  |
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