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  Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 24, 2023 Galactic Energy, a private space company based in Beijing, plans to make its first sea-based launch this summer, which could be the first by a private Chinese firm if successful. According to Xia Dongkun, a vice-president at Galactic Energy, the company has scheduled the launch of one of its Ceres 1 rockets in the Yellow Sea off the coast of Shandong province, sometime between June and August. The rocket will carry five to six small satellites into a low-Earth orbit. ... read more |
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China, Europe cooperate in satellite-rocket testBeijing (XNA) Feb 20, 2023 A China-Europe joint space mission, Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE), has successfully completed a satellite-rocket test, according to the National Space Science Center (NSS ... more  
Russia in talks with Chinese drone maker on supplies: reportBerlin (AFP) Feb 24, 2023 Russia is in talks with a Chinese drone maker to supply it with self-explosive drones that could be deployed in Ukraine, German magazine Der Spiegel reported Friday. ... more  
Key takeaways from China's Ukraine position paperBeijing (AFP) Feb 24, 2023 China released a new position paper outlining its stance on the Ukraine conflict on Friday, the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion. ... more 
China urges Russia, Ukraine to hold talks, warns against using nuclear weaponsBeijing (AFP) Feb 24, 2023 China called Friday for urgent peace talks as it released its plan to end the war in Ukraine, but Western powers quickly rebuffed the proposals while warning against Beijing's closening ties to Moscow. ... more |
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Strong quake hits off eastern Malaysia
Italian alpinist found dead in Swiss avalanche Morocco flood evacuees mark muted Ramadan away from home Rescuers recover final body after deadly California avalanche Afghanistan quake causes no 'serious' damage, injuries: official Kabul shakes as 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits eastern Afghanistan Strong earthquake rocks eastern Afghanistan: AFP journalists Deadly California avalanche search to go through weekend Deadly Indonesia floods force a deforestation reckoning Three killed in Austria Alps avalanches: police |
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Zelensky wants to meet China over its Ukraine peace planKyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday he had not seen a peace plan promised by China but wanted to meet with Beijing over their proposal before assessing it. ... more  
Advanced comms satellite launched from SichuanBeijing (XNA) Feb 24, 2023 China successfully launched its sixth rocket of 2023, a Long March 3B carrier rocket, on Thursday evening from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China's Sichuan province. The rocket carried the ChinaSat 26 communications satellite into geostationary orbit ... more 
Scholz urges caution on China's relationship with RussiaBerlin (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Thursday there should be "no illusions" over China, which has been seeking to position itself as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine, almost a year after Moscow's invasion. ... more  
US releases pilot's high-altitude selfie with Chinese balloonWashington (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 The US defense department has released a high-altitude cockpit selfie of a U-2 spy plane pilot soaring over an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon the day before it was shot down. ... more |
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Putin tightens China ties as Biden slams Russia over treaty Warsaw (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 US President Joe Biden on Wednesday called Russia's suspension of a nuclear treaty a "big mistake" as Moscow sought closer ties to China and said it was fighting for "historical" lands in Ukraine. ... more  
S.Africa army defends controversial naval drills with RussiaRichards Bay, South Africa (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 South Africa's military on Wednesday defended its decision to host controversial naval exercises jointly staged with Russia and China and coinciding with the one-year anniversary of the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine. ... more 
US 'committed' to joint sea patrols with Philippines: US navy chiefManila (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 The United States is "committed" to conducting joint maritime patrols with the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea, the US navy chief said Wednesday, as the countries seek to deter Chinese aggression. ... more 
China did not consult Ukraine on its peace plan: officialKyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 The Chinese government did not consult with Kyiv when preparing its peace plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian official said on condition of anonymity. ... more |
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US to increase training forces in Taiwan: reportWashington (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 The United States plans to significantly boost the number of American military personnel deployed in Taiwan to help train local forces, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. ... more 
China accuses Biden of 'saying one thing, doing another' over balloon spatBeijing (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 China on Wednesday accused Joe Biden of "saying one thing and doing another" in a direct rebuke of the US president's decision to shoot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon this month. ... more
Ukraine cautious on Chinese 'peace plan'Brussels (AFP) Feb 21, 2023 Ukraine's foreign minister expressed cautious interest Tuesday in China's ideas for a peace deal to end the war with Russia, but warned it must respect Kyiv's territorial integrity. ... more  
Bosnian furniture sector spurs economic growthTesanj, Bosnia And Herzegovina (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 The screech of chainsaws echoes through a Bosnian forest edged by snowy peaks, where lumber is to be crafted into high-end furniture to adorn European or South Korean homes. ... more  
Brazil suspends beef exports to China over mad cow caseBrasilia (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 Brazil, the world's biggest beef producer, suspended exports to China Thursday after detecting a case of mad cow disease, though experts believe it is the less-dangerous "atypical" variant, said Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro. ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 16, 2023 
Multiple engineering experiments are currently underway, or poised to begin, at a cabinet on China's space station which is in a near-Earth orbit. These experiments aim to acquire know-how that can support more experimental possibilities and human survival in outer space.
The Space Basic Experiment Cabinet mounted on the country's space lab module Mengtian is carrying its first group of fi ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 
Markets were mixed Thursday, with little buying enthusiasm after minutes from a Federal Reserve policy meeting indicated interest rates will likely keep rising longer than previously feared.
A blockbuster jobs report and sticky inflation data this month have dealt a hammer blow to earlier expectations the US central bank could soon pause its monetary tightening campaign or even cut borrowing ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 24, 2023 
China released a new position paper outlining its stance on the Ukraine conflict on Friday, the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion.
The 12-point document mostly reiterates Beijing's existing standpoint on the conflict, while portraying China as a neutral party and urging the two sides to enter into peace negotiations.
But Beijing's claim to neutrality has been questioned by the U ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 
For more than a century, much of the world has run on the combustion of fossil fuels. Now, to avert the threat of climate change, the energy system is changing. Notably, solar and wind systems are replacing fossil fuel combustion for generating electricity and heat, and batteries are replacing the internal combustion engine for powering vehicles. As the energy transition progresses, researchers ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 
Russia is resorting to spammer tactics to spread Ukraine war propaganda after more sophisticated influence operations at Facebook and Instagram have been thwarted, Meta said on Thursday.
Tactics have included deploying thousands of fake accounts to hijack online conversations about the war and setting up bogus versions of legitimate news outlet websites at similar online addresses, Meta said ... more |
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Boston MA (SPX) Feb 17, 2023
For more than a century, much of the world has run on the combustion of fossil fuels. Now, to avert the threat of climate change, the energy system is changing. Notably, solar and wind systems are replacing fossil fuel combustion for generating electricity and heat, and batteries are replacing the internal combustion engine for powering vehicles. As the energy transition progresses, researchers ... more |
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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 
Airborne wind energy (AWE) is a lightweight technology which uses flying devices including kites and gliders to harvest power from the atmosphere. To maximise the energy they extract, these devices need to precisely control their orientations to account for turbulence in Earth's atmosphere.
Through new research published in EPJ E, Antonio Celani and colleagues at the Abdus Salam Internatio ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 
Silicon, the standard semiconducting material used in a host of applications-computer central processing units (CPUs), semiconductor chips, detectors, and solar cells-is an abundant, naturally occurring material. However, it is expensive to mine and to purify.
Perovskites-a family of materials nicknamed for their crystalline structure-have shown extraordinary promise in recent years as a f ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) Feb 24, 2023 
North Korea said Friday it had fired cruise missiles and claimed that ramped-up US-South Korean military drills "can be regarded as a declaration of war".
It came after the two allies conducted a tabletop exercise at the Pentagon focused on responses to a nuclear attack by Pyongyang.
North Korean forces held a "strategic cruise missile launching drill" in the early hours of Thursday, fir ... more |
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 Linthicum MD (SPX) Feb 24, 2023 
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has successfully moved its first Electronically-Scanned Multifunction Reconfigurable Integrated Sensor (EMRIS), a new ultra-wideband sensor, into integration and test. Northrop Grumman's sophisticated multifunction sensors, including EMRIS, enable warfighters to accelerate decision timelines and act collectively.
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 London (AFP) Feb 23, 2023  British military equipment maker BAE Systems said Thursday that it won a record-high number of orders last year, the start of which saw Russia invade Ukraine.
Orders totalled 37.1 billion pounds ($44.7 billion) in 2022, and BAE said it expected "renewed importance of armoured combat vehicles in the Ukraine conflict to benefit" the group going forward.
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 Gerroa, Australia (SPX) Feb 16, 2023  SpaceDaily, a leading news organization covering space exploration, astronomy, and technology, has implemented ChatGPT's technology, along with simple rules lists and innovative software development, to streamline its imaging process.
The combination of these technologies has enabled SpaceDaily to generate filenames for image files based on their captions and vice versa, while also enablin ... more |
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 Oxford (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 
A new paper in Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that watching nature documentaries makes people more interested in plants, potentially provoking an involvement in botany and ecology.
Some 40% of plant species are under threat of extinction. Plants that are not directly useful to humans are particularly vulnerable. People often do not recognize how important ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 
The United States plans to significantly boost the number of American military personnel deployed in Taiwan to help train local forces, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The move comes at a time of heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing over an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down by a US warplane earlier this month.
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 24, 2023 
Two Pakistani brothers, Abdul and Mohammed Rabbani, have been freed from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay after more than 20 years in detention and repatriated, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Abdul Rabbani, who was born in 1967, is believed to have been one of the oldest inmates at the facility on a US base in Cuba.
US officials accused him of working for avowed 9/11 mastermind Kha ... more |
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