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  Beijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2022 China launched a Long March 2D carrier rocket on Monday morning, kicking off the country's space program for 2022. The rocket blasted off at 10:35 am at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi province and soon placed the Shiyan 13 experimental satellite in its preset orbit, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp said in a statement. This was China's first rocket launch of the year and the 406th mission of the Long March rocket family. The State-owned space ... read more |
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Chinese scientists build 'Artificial Moon' to conduct experiments in low gravityMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 18, 2022 According to the South China Morning Post, the facility located in Jiangsu Province, will play an important part in the exploration of the Moon as China plans to land its astronauts on Earth's satel ... more  
US Congress urges UN release Xinjiang report before Beijing OlympicsWashington (AFP) Jan 19, 2022 US lawmakers Tuesday called on the UN human rights chief to release a report on Xinjiang, where Washington accuses China of perpetrating a genocide against minority Uyghur Muslims, before the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics. ... more  
China's Xi warns global confrontation 'invites catastrophic consequences'Beijing (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 Chinese President Xi Jinping warned on Monday that confrontation between major powers could have "catastrophic consequences" in a speech to world leaders at an all-virtual Davos forum. ... more  
China says freight train trade with North Korea resumes after two yearsBeijing (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 China said Monday that its border with North Korea has reopened for freight train trade, some two years after it was shuttered by Pyongyang because of the coronavirus pandemic. ... more |
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Mandatory Chinese Olympics app has 'devastating' encryption flaw: analystWashington (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 An app all attendees of the upcoming Beijing Olympics must use has encryption flaws that could allow personal information to leak, a cyber security watchdog said Tuesday. ... more  
Hong Kong independence activist Edward Leung released from jailHong Kong (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 Hong Kong independence activist Edward Leung, whose now-banned slogan became a rallying cry during the 2019 pro-democracy movement, was released from jail in the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday after serving nearly four years. ... more 
Bribes in lunchboxes: TV series on China's corrupt officials hooks millionsBeijing (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 A huge designer property in Beijing and millions of dollars hidden in seafood boxes - a state television series on China's anti-graft campaign is captivating viewers and lifting the lid on officials brought down on graft charges. ... more 
China rebuffs Australia's concern over health of detained writerBeijing (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 Beijing on Tuesday pushed back against claims from Canberra that a detained Australian writer was being arbitrarily held and not receiving adequate medical support despite his declining health. ... more
The big fish caught in Xi Jinping's anti-graft netBeijing (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 A state TV series documenting high-profile officials caught in President Xi Jinping's purge of the Communist Party's upper echelons has captivated millions in China and renewed focus on widespread abuses of power. ... more |
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China orders overseas mail disinfection over Omicron fearsBeijing (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 China's postal service has ordered workers to disinfect international deliveries and urged the public to reduce orders from overseas after authorities claimed mail could be the source of recent coronavirus outbreaks. ... more 
Police charge Cathay flight attendants at centre of Hong Kong outbreakHong Kong (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 Hong Kong police arrested and charged Monday two Cathay Pacific flight attendants for allegedly contravening Covid regulations, after the emergence of the Omicron variant in the territory was traced to their breach of home quarantine. ... more
China drops plans to sell Olympic tickets as virus cases riseBeijing (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 China on Monday cancelled plans to sell tickets to the public for the Winter Olympics in Beijing, as the number of Covid-19 cases in the country reached its highest since March 2020. ... more 
Not just for the elite: China's ex-athletes in school sport pushShanghai (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 Petite but commanding, China's former world champion gymnast Sui Lu stood among a sea of yoga mats doling out encouragement to her students as they bent their torsos towards their outstretched legs. ... more 
Omicron detected in Beijing as China battles Covid clustersBeijing (AFP) Jan 15, 2022 An Omicron case has been detected in Beijing, officials in the Chinese capital said Saturday, as the country battles multiple outbreaks of the highly transmissible coronavirus variant ahead of the Winter Olympics. ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2022 
China launched a Long March 2D carrier rocket on Monday morning, kicking off the country's space program for 2022.
The rocket blasted off at 10:35 am at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi province and soon placed the Shiyan 13 experimental satellite in its preset orbit, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp said in a statement.
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 15, 2022 
China's economy expanded at its fastest pace for 10 years in 2021, according to an AFP poll of analysts, but its strong recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic is threatened by Omicron and a property sector slowdown.
The eight percent growth would be well above the government's target of more than six percent, and comes on the back of a strong start to the year as a "zero-Covid" policy allowed t ... more |
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 Paris, France (AFP) Jan 15, 2022 
The failure of the United States and Russia this week to find a diplomatic solution to fizzing tensions over Eastern European security has increased the chance of a new Russian attack on Ukraine even if full-scale war is far from inevitable, analysts say.
Russia stands accused of having massed some 100,000 troops close to the Ukrainian border, as it seeks a commitment from the West that the ... more |
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 Stockholm (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 
Sweden's intelligence service is launching an investigation into several drone flights that took place over nuclear power plants in the country over the weekend, the agency said Monday.
The Swedish Security Service (Sapo) said in a statement that it had taken over the probe from the police regarding "the events where drones have been sighted at Forsmark, Ringhals and Oskarshamn's nuclear pow ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 
NATO on Monday inked a deal to bolster its cyber support for Ukraine, after a sweeping hacking attack against Kyiv heightened tensions amid fears that Russia could be plotting an invasion.
Ukraine said on Sunday that it had evidence Moscow was behind the attack last week that knocked out government websites - but the Kremlin has denied any involvement.
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Stockholm (AFP) Jan 17, 2022
Sweden's intelligence service is launching an investigation into several drone flights that took place over nuclear power plants in the country over the weekend, the agency said Monday.
The Swedish Security Service (Sapo) said in a statement that it had taken over the probe from the police regarding "the events where drones have been sighted at Forsmark, Ringhals and Oskarshamn's nuclear pow ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2022 
Trailing-edge noise is the dominant source of sound from aeronautical and turbine engines like those in airplanes, drones, and wind turbines. Suppressing this noise pollution is a major environmental goal for some urban areas.
In Physics of Fluids, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Xi'an Jiaotong University used the characteristics of owl wings to inform airfoil design and significantly ... more |
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 Dresden, Germany (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 
Metal halide perovskites are receiving great attention as next-generation semiconductors for solar energy conversion. Since the first demonstration of 3.8% efficiency in 2009, efficiencies have increased rapidly and state-of-the-art perovskite solar cells exhibit high efficiencies over 25%, close to the record efficiencies of silicon photovoltaics.
This fast growth during the last decade r ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Jan 18, 2022  Russian President Vladimir Putin will host his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi in Moscow on Wednesday, the Kremlin said, amid talks aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal.
The meeting will be Raisi's most important official visit abroad since he took office, and the first visit by an Iranian president to Russia since 2017.
The leaders will discuss the "whole range of issues of bilate ... more |
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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's complementary position, navigation, and timing (PNT) AgilePod prototype achieved three important objectives in flight tests conducted here November 1-10.
The test team - representing a broad base of Air Force, Navy, and vendor organizations - successfully executed eight sorties aboard a T-38C aircraft, which included the first test of the PNT AgilePod on ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 28, 2021 
The United States renewed calls Tuesday for an arms embargo on Myanmar's junta after a Christmas Eve massacre in which Save the Children said two of the group's staff were killed.
"The targeting of innocent people and humanitarian actors is unacceptable, and the military's widespread atrocities against the people of Burma underscore the urgency of holding its members accountable," US Secreta ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2022 
There are 6,500 satellites in orbit, but only about half of them are functional. Once a satellite breaks down or runs out of fuel, it is essentially useless. Repairs, maintenance and upgrades are nearly impossible in orbit.
It's launch once, use once. But as satellites have become more robust, their operators often find that fleets outlast their projected lifespans and need new technology, ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 
Microplastics can deposit and linger within riverbeds for as long as seven years before washing into the ocean, a new study has found.
Because rivers are in near-constant motion, researchers previously assumed lightweight microplastics quickly flowed through rivers, rarely interacting with riverbed sediments.
Now, researchers led by Northwestern University and the University of Birmi ... more |
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 Ljubljana (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 
Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa announced the European Union country is preparing an exchange of representatives with Taiwan, a move that could worsen relations with China but was welcomed by Taipei on Tuesday.
"We are working on establishing ... well, on exchanging representatives," Jansa told an interview to India's Doordarshan national television published on the government's website ... more |
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 Almaty, Kazakhstan (Sputnik) Jan 19, 2022 
Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has fired his special envoy to the Russia-leased Baikonur space port, his press office said on Monday.
"A decree of the head of state has relieved Serik Zhusipovich Suleimenov of his duties as the Kazakhstani president's special representative at Baikonur complex," the presidency said.
Serik Suleimenov was appointed envoy to Baikonur in th ... more |
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