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  Beijing (XNA) Jul 17, 2022 China on Saturday launched a Long March-2C carrier rocket to place two satellites in space. The pair of satellites, Siwei 03 and 04, were lifted at 6:57 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi and soon entered the preset orbit. They will provide commercial remote sensing services for sectors such as land resources investigation, natural disaster monitoring, urban planning and safety. The mission marked the 427th flight of the Long ... read more |
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Short space trips for paying passengers on the wayBeijing (XNA) Jul 14, 2022 CAS Space, a Beijing-based rocket company owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is designing a set of reusable rocket and spacecraft, with the aim of sending paying passengers on short trips int ... more  
China to launch first comprehensive solar probeBeijing, China (SPX) Jul 13, 2022 China will launch its first comprehensive solar probe, the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory, in October, opening a new chapter in the country's exploration of the sun, according to the Nationa ... more  
Chinese scientists help solve riddle of Moon's largest craterBeijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2022 Chinese scientists have published a study that helps to explain an anomaly in the composition of the Moon's biggest crater - the South Pole-Aitken Basin - identifying the abnormal materials there as ... more  
Chinese, Australian astronomers detect key process of binary evolutionBeijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2022 A joint research team of Chinese and Australian astronomers has detected a binary star system ejecting a common envelope, a key process of the binary star evolution, which could be of great importan ... more |
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New satellite series adds capabilities to China's data relay capacityBeijing (XNA) Jul 15, 2022 China launched a Tianlian II series satellite early on Wednesday morning to form a global-covering network of the country's second-generation relay satellites. A Long March 3B carrier rocket b ... more  
China's Xi makes first Xinjiang visit since crackdownBeijing (AFP) July 15, 2022 Chinese President Xi Jinping made a public visit to Xinjiang, state media reported Friday, his first since a crackdown in the region saw Beijing accused of detaining over a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in camps. ... more  
Third Tianlian II-series satellite launchedBeijing (XNA) Jul 13, 2022 China launched a Tianlian II-series satellite early on Wednesday morning to form a global network of the country's second-generation relay satellites. A Long March 3B carrier rocket blasted of ... more  
Solomons says foreign base would make it a military targetSuva, Fiji (AFP) July 14, 2022 Solomon Islands will not host a foreign military base because the nation would be targeted for "military strikes", Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said Thursday, as Pacific leaders grappled with China's security ambitions. ... more |
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China says SE Asia nations should avoid becoming 'chess pieces'Jakarta (AFP) July 11, 2022 Southeast Asian nations should avoid becoming "chess pieces", China's foreign minister said Monday, as he revealed proposing a set of "rules" to promote positive interactions between Beijing and Washington at a recent meeting. ... more  
China slams Taiwan over Abe funeral tripBeijing (AFP) July 12, 2022 China on Tuesday accused Taiwan of "political manipulation" after its Vice President William Lai attended former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe's funeral - Taipei's highest-ranking official visit to Japan in decades. ... more  
UN Security Council calls on members to stop arming gangs in HaitiUnited Nations, United States (AFP) July 16, 2022 The United Nations Security Council agreed Friday to ask member states to ban the transfer of small arms to Haiti, rocked by deadly gang violence, but stopped short of a full embargo requested by China. ... more  
China Covid outbreak grows with millions under lockdownBeijing (AFP) July 16, 2022 China on Saturday reported its highest number of coronavirus cases since May, with millions in lockdown this weekend as authorities persist with their zero-Covid policy. ... more |
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Seven Hong Kong 'speedboat fugitives' jailed over Taiwan escape bidHong Kong (AFP) July 15, 2022 Hong Kong on Friday jailed seven people who were part of a failed 2020 attempt to flee to Taiwan by speedboat to dodge protest-related prosecutions. ... more  
US VP Harris launches Pacific push with new embassies, envoySuva, Fiji (AFP) July 13, 2022 The United States launched a major push into the Pacific Wednesday as it seeks to hold off China's advances in the region, with Vice President Kamala Harris announcing the opening of two new embassies at a key regional summit. ... more 
China asks UN Security Council for ban on small arms to HaitiUnited Nations, United States (AFP) July 15, 2022 China has asked the UN Security Council to vote on banning small arms deliveries to Haiti, setting up a potential stand-off Friday with the United States whose draft resolution does not reflect Beijing's proposal. ... more 
Proposed US law would say Tibet status unresolvedWashington (AFP) July 14, 2022 US lawmakers have introduced legislation that would call Tibet's legal status unresolved, distancing Washington from past statements that recognized the territory as part of China. ... more  
Feathery insulation helped dinosaurs survive and thrive: StudyNanjing, China (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 The so-called Triassic-Jurassic Extinction (~202 million years ago) killed off the big reptiles that up until then had ruled the planet, thus clearing the way for dinosaurs to take over. But why did ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 13, 2022 
China launched a Tianlian II-series satellite early on Wednesday morning to form a global network of the country's second-generation relay satellites.
A Long March 3B carrier rocket blasted off at 12:29 am from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China's Sichuan province and then placed the Tianlian II-03 satellite into a geostationary orbit, according to China Aerospace Sc ... more |
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 Zurich (AFP) July 15, 2022 
Swiss luxury giant Richemont, which counts Cartier and Piaget among its brands, said Friday sales rose 20 percent in its first fiscal quarter despite a drop in demand in Asia-Pacific.
Global sales in the period April to June topped 5.2 billion euros (dollars), the group said in a statement, even as China rolled out fresh lockdowns in a bid to contain Covid cases.
The group said it profi ... more |
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 Jakarta (AFP) July 11, 2022 
Southeast Asian nations should avoid becoming "chess pieces", China's foreign minister said Monday, as he revealed proposing a set of "rules" to promote positive interactions between Beijing and Washington at a recent meeting.
Wang Yi held five hours of talks on Saturday with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken - their first since October - on the Indonesian island of Bali, after the pai ... more |
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 Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) July 16, 2022  Russia is using Europe's largest nuclear power plant as a base to store weapons including "missile systems" and shell the surrounding areas of Ukraine, an official with Kyiv's nuclear agency has said.
Located on the Dnipro river in southeastern Ukraine, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been under Russian control since the early weeks of Moscow's invasion, though it is still being operated ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) July 14, 2022 
Social media giant Meta, whose platforms including Facebook and Instagram regularly face concerns over their impact on civil liberties and democracy, on Thursday released its first annual report on its efforts to protect human rights.
For years Meta has been heavily criticized for a business model that has been accused of prioritizing extremist content in a bid to attract users' attention. ... more |
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Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) July 16, 2022 Russia is using Europe's largest nuclear power plant as a base to store weapons including "missile systems" and shell the surrounding areas of Ukraine, an official with Kyiv's nuclear agency has said.
Located on the Dnipro river in southeastern Ukraine, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been under Russian control since the early weeks of Moscow's invasion, though it is still being operated ... more |
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 Freiburg, Germany (SPX) Jun 22, 2022 
Wind energy contributes significantly to the energy sector's sustainable, low-CO2 transformation. However, the efficiency of wind turbines depends on available wind resources and the technical characteristics of the turbines. Climate change, of all things, is causing the global wind resource to diminish in the 21st century. At the same time, the technical properties of wind turbines are steadily ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 
Increasing the power conversion efficiency of solar cells is important for two reasons. In the long run, it is the most effective way to reduce the levelized cost of electricity. In the short term, it is the best way to promote photovoltaics for applications where space is limited e.g., roofs, facades, vehicles, or even drones.
However, all solar cells are fundamentally limited by the mate ... more |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) July 10, 2022  Expanding joint action to counter Iran will top the agenda during US President Joe Biden's upcoming visit to Israel, Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Sunday, demanding sanctions against Tehran.
The premier urged a "decisive" response to Tehran's nuclear ambitions, ahead of Biden's arrival in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
The visit "will focus first and foremost on the issue of Iran," said Lapid, ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 15, 2022 
Seeking to revolutionize how the Department of Defense (DoD) objectively measures individual warfighter readiness, DARPA's newest biotechnology funding opportunity aims to develop a hand-held prediction tool for warfighter physiological states based on molecular biomarkers. The device developed under the Smart Non-invasive Assays of Physiology (SNAP) program would be readily configurable to dive ... more |
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 Prague (AFP) July 11, 2022 
The EU is creating a hub in Moldova to battle organised crime, particularly arms smuggling from war-roiled neighbouring Ukraine, an official said Monday.
EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson announced the EU Support Hub for Internal Security and Border Management at a meeting of EU interior ministers which was expanded to include counterparts from non-EU countries Ukraine and Moldova. ... more |
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 Bangalore, India (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 
Where are those flowers and how far away are they? This is the crux of the 'waggle dance' performed by honeybees to alert others to the location of nectar-rich flowers. A new study in Frontiers in Robotics and AI has taken inspiration from this technique to devise a way for robots to communicate. The first robot traces a shape on the floor, and the shape's orientation and the time it takes to tr ... more |
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 Prague (AFP) July 13, 2022 
The war in Ukraine has destroyed forests, polluted fields and filled them with mines, and contaminated water, a Kyiv official told EU environment ministers who pledged help on Wednesday.
At an informal EU meeting in Prague, which holds the rotating EU presidency, Ukrainian Environment Minister Ruslan Strilets said the Russian invasion had damaged three million hectares of Ukrainian forests. ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 12, 2022  China on Tuesday accused Taiwan of "political manipulation" after its Vice President William Lai attended former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe's funeral - Taipei's highest-ranking official visit to Japan in decades.
Beijing views the self-ruled democratic island of Taiwan as its own territory, and countries that have diplomatic relations with China usually refrain from having official ... more |
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 Berlin (AFP) July 9, 2022  Germany's lower house of parliament on Thursday recommended that German lawmakers recognise as a "genocide" the 2014 massacre of Kurdish-speaking Yazidis by Islamic State group jihadists in Iraq, following the lead of UN investigators.
"The recognition of the genocide is an essential step to overcome the traumas for the Yazidi community," said Greens MP Max Lucks, highlighting the precarious ... more |
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