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  Nanjing (XNA) May 29, 2022 China's space tracking ship Yuanwang-3 Thursday set sail for its first voyage this year from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province. The vessel will carry out its 100th maritime mission during this voyage. Yuanwang-3 has become the first ship of China's Yuanwang fleet to embrace its 100th mission. Commissioned on May 18, 1995, Yuanwang-3 is a second-generation Chinese space tracking ship. It mainly carries out maritime measurement and control and communication missions for satellites, space ... read more |
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Debris from Chinese rocket reenters atmosphere, mostly burning upBeijing (XNA) May 27, 2022 Debris from the last stage of the Long March-7 Y5 carrier rocket reentered the atmosphere at 5:34 p.m. on Wednesday (Beijing Time), the China Manned Space Agency said. The vast majority of the ... more  
Researchers reveal hemispheric asymmetry of long-term sunspot activityKunming, China (SPX) May 26, 2022 Ph.D. candidate ZHANG Xiaojuan and Prof. DENG Linhua from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated the temporal variation of the hemispheric distribution of long-term sun ... more 
Researchers start planting space-bred seeds returned by Shenzhou-13Beijing (XNA) May 25, 2022 Chinese researchers have commenced breeding experiments on 12,000 seeds that were bred inside the Shenzhou-13 crewed spaceship in space for six months. The seeds, including alfalfa, oats and f ... more  
China fails to ink security pact with Pacific nationsSuva, Fiji (AFP) May 30, 2022 Talks between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and 10 Pacific Island nations failed to reach an agreement on a wide-ranging security deal Monday, after sharp warnings the proposal would push the region into "Beijing's orbit". ... more |
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Seven Indian troops killed in accident near disputed borderSrinagar, India (AFP) May 27, 2022 At least seven Indian soldiers were killed and 19 others injured in a road accident in the remote Ladakh region, close to the country's disputed border with China, police said Friday. ... more  
UN rights chief falls under wheels of China's propaganda machineBeijing (AFP) May 27, 2022 Beijing's propaganda machine has outwitted the UN human rights chief on her visit to China, campaigners say, leaving the envoy accused of playing a role in whitewashing abuses against minorities in Xinjiang. ... more  
Blinken denounces China on Taiwan, says US stance unchangedWashington (AFP) May 26, 2022 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday accused Beijing of raising tensions over Taiwan and insisted US policy has not changed after President Joe Biden said Washington would defend the island. ... more  
China plans fresh military exercises in South China SeaBeijing (AFP) May 27, 2022 China will hold naval exercises in the South China Sea on Saturday, its maritime authority said, after a week of recrimination from Western powers over its military ambitions across the Pacific region. ... more |
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Pakistan FM to visit China as financial crisis bitesIslamabad (AFP) May 20, 2022 Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will visit China for the first time on Saturday, courting Islamabad's closest economic ally as his freshly installed government grapples with a spiralling financial crisis. ... more 
Xi speaks with UN rights chief as Xinjiang row ragesBeijing (AFP) May 25, 2022 Chinese President Xi Jinping held a video call with UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday, as she visits Xinjiang during a mission overshadowed by fresh allegations of Uyghur abuses and fears she is being used as a public relations tool. ... more  
In Xi's big year, political price of China's pandemic policy climbsBeijing (AFP) May 21, 2022 Protests bubbling in big cities, dismal economic indicators and rampant discontent online - China's zero-Covid policy is morphing from a propaganda victory to a political liability for President Xi Jinping. ... more  
China congratulates Australia's Albanese in hint at thawing tiesBeijing (AFP) May 24, 2022 Chinese premier Li Keqiang has sent a congratulatory note to newly elected Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese, Beijing's state media reported, ending a year-long freeze in diplomatic contact between the two countries. ... more |
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China hopes UN rights chief visit will 'clarify misinformation': ministry Beijing (AFP) May 24, 2022 China's foreign minister told the United Nations' human rights chief he hoped her landmark visit would help to "clarify misinformation", ahead of her visit to the Xinjiang region. ... more  
Tiananmen masses axed as crackdown memorials erased in Hong KongHong Kong (AFP) May 30, 2022 For the first time in 33 years, church services to commemorate the Tiananmen crackdown will not be held in Hong Kong, erasing one of the last reminders of China's bloody suppression of the 1989 protests. ... more 
Pacific 'very positive' on Australian re-engagement: PMSydney (AFP) May 29, 2022 Australia's newly elected prime minister has said Pacific leaders have been "very positive" about his government's renewed engagement, even as Beijing continues its diplomatic blitz across the increasingly contested region. ... more 
Hong Kong's next leader visits Beijing for official nodHong Kong (AFP) May 28, 2022 Hong Kong's next leader John Lee travelled to Beijing on Saturday to receive the central government's blessing as he prepares to take office in a month. ... more
Australia urges Pacific nations to shun China security dealsSuva, Fiji (AFP) May 27, 2022 Australia urged South Pacific nations to spurn China's attempts to extend its security reach across the region Friday, seeking to fend off a high-level charm offensive by Beijing. ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 25, 2022 
Chinese researchers have commenced breeding experiments on 12,000 seeds that were bred inside the Shenzhou-13 crewed spaceship in space for six months.
The seeds, including alfalfa, oats and fungi, were selected by multiple research institutions last year. They were brought back to Earth by the Shenzhou-13 on April 16.
Space breeding refers to the process of exposing seeds to cosmic ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 26, 2022 
China's premier called for more to be done to stabilise the world's second-largest economy, issuing an unusually stark warning as the country's zero-Covid strategy bites into growth.
China is the last major economy welded to a policy of mass testing and hard lockdowns to eliminate virus clusters, but the strict curbs have battered businesses.
Restrictions around the nation in recent mont ... more |
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 Stockholm (AFP) May 27, 2022  Sweden hopes to strike a compromise with Turkey to seal its NATO membership bid, but fears are mounting in the Scandinavian country that the government may sacrifice too much to get what it wants.
"If you want to sell everything for NATO membership, then go ahead but I think it's awful", blasted Amineh Kakabaveh, a Swedish lawmaker of Iranian Kurdish origin.
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 Helsinki (AFP) May 24, 2022 
Finnish-led Fennovoima said Tuesday it had withdrawn a construction application for a nuclear plant involving Rosatom, three weeks after it cancelled the delivery contract with the state-owned Russian energy giant.
"Fennovoima has withdrawn the Hanhikivi 1 construction license application - focus is now on preserving the Pyhajoki site," said a statement from the company, in which Rosatom ha ... more |
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 Bochum, Germany (SPX) May 25, 2022 
Smart devices are supposed to make our everyday lives easier. At the same time, however, they are a gateway for passive eavesdropping. To prevent possible surveillance of the movement profile within one's home, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, the Horst Gortz Institute for IT Security at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum and the Cologne University of Applied Sciences hav ... more |
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Helsinki (AFP) May 24, 2022
Finnish-led Fennovoima said Tuesday it had withdrawn a construction application for a nuclear plant involving Rosatom, three weeks after it cancelled the delivery contract with the state-owned Russian energy giant.
"Fennovoima has withdrawn the Hanhikivi 1 construction license application - focus is now on preserving the Pyhajoki site," said a statement from the company, in which Rosatom ha ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) May 25, 2022 
A novel energy model suggests the overall costs of a net-zero emissions electricity grid are substantially lowered with the integration of long-duration energy storage options like pumped-storage hydroelectricity that can 'firm up' variable renewables such as wind when they struggle through extended week-long lulls.
In order to meet globally agreed net-zero greenhouse-gas emission targets, ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) May 25, 2022 
A team of researchers from the UK and Japan has found that the tiny defects which limit the efficiency of perovskites - cheaper alternative materials for solar cells - are also responsible for structural changes in the material that lead to degradation.
The researchers used a combination of techniques to mimic the process of aging under sunlight and observe changes in the materials at the ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) May 26, 2022 
Iran said Thursday an engineer was killed in an "accident" at a defence research unit in an area near Tehran that hosts a military complex previously scrutinised by the UN nuclear watchdog.
The incident late Wednesday came days after a colonel in the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological arm of Iran's military, was shot dead near his home in east Tehran.
Iran's arch foe Israel told the U ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 25, 2022 
Time and again, America's worst mass shootings - including the one this week at an elementary school in Texas - have featured a common thread: the killer's use of a military-style assault rifle that is inexpensive, easy to use and deadly efficient.
The type of weapon, commonly known as the AR-15, is once again under scrutiny after a gunman used the rifle to kill 19 children and two teacher ... more |
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 Prague (AFP) May 18, 2022 
The Czech Republic will receive 15 Leopard 2 A4 tanks from Germany in exchange for military equipment it sent Ukraine, its defence ministry said on Wednesday.
Prague will also start talks on the purchase of another 50 Leopard 2 A7+ tanks, ministry spokesman Jakub Fajnor said in a statement.
"The German side appreciates the extent to which the Czech Republic has helped Ukraine with gifts ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) May 27, 2022 
Northwestern University engineers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot - and it comes in the form of a tiny, adorable peekytoe crab.
Just a half-millimeter wide, the tiny crabs can bend, twist, crawl, walk, turn and even jump. The researchers also developed millimeter-sized robots resembling inchworms, crickets and beetles. Although the research is exploratory a ... more |
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 Kartepe, Turkey (AFP) May 29, 2022  The number of fires breaking out in plastic recycling plants has soared in Turkey.
Experts and activists suspect it's not a coincidence, believing that some entrepreneurs want to get rid of unwanted rubbish sometimes imported from Europe.
In Kartepe, an industrial town in the country's north-west, one of these sites was closed by the authorities in December after the outbreak of three fi ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 26, 2022 
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday accused Beijing of raising tensions over Taiwan and insisted US policy has not changed after President Joe Biden said Washington would defend the island.
"While our policy has not changed, what has changed is Beijing's growing coercion," Blinken said in a wide-ranging speech on China.
He pointed to Beijing's attempts to "cut off Taiwan's r ... more |
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 Istanbul (AFP) May 29, 2022  Another two Turkish soldiers have been killed during military operations against Kurdish militants in the north of Iraq, Turkey's defence ministry and media said Sunday.
The latest incidents bring to eight the number of Turkish troops killed in the region since Tuesday.
One soldier was killed on Saturday when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off as he and other soldiers were pas ... more |
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