NATO boosts eastern presence ahead of key summit
Brussels (AFP) June 14, 2016 -
NATO defence ministers on Tuesday approved sending battalions to the three Baltic states and Poland just weeks before a landmark summit in Warsaw endorses a major build-up to counter a more assertive Russia.
Russia's 2014 intervention in Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea stung NATO out of its post-Cold War complacency and into a major revamp to boost its readiness and resources to meet a ...
more
US charges Chinese worker for IBM with 'economic espionage'
Washington (AFP) June 14, 2016 -
US authorities charged a former Chinese employee of tech giant IBM with economic espionage Tuesday for allegedly stealing proprietary source code to hand over to a Chinese government agency.
The Department of Justice said Xu Jiaqiang had been a developer for an unnamed US company when he took the source code, intending to provide it to the Chinese National Health and Planning Commission, whe ...
more
Iran's Khamenei warns US candidates over nuclear deal
Tehran (AFP) June 14, 2016 -
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned candidates in the US presidential election against questioning the Islamic republic's nuclear deal with world powers, his official website reported on Tuesday.
"We do not violate the nuclear accord... candidates in the American presidential election are threatening to tear up the nuclear deal. If they do so, we will burn it," he told vi ...
more
ASEAN retracts South China Sea criticism: Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) June 14, 2016 -
Southeast Asian countries have reversed course on a statement that expressed deep concern over events in the South China Sea, where Beijing is embroiled in territorial rows, Malaysia said Tuesday, adding that "urgent amendments" would be made.
In a strongly-worded statement released to AFP by the Malaysian foreign ministry, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) had earlier warne ...
more
Chinese spy ship entered Japan waters: Tokyo
Tokyo (AFP) June 15, 2016 -
A Chinese spy ship entered Japan's territorial waters on Wednesday as Tokyo conducted a joint exercise with the United States and India, Japanese officials said.
Japan quickly voiced "concerns" over the intrusion as it came less than a week after another Chinese naval vessel sailed near islands at the centre of a Tokyo-Beijing sovereignty dispute in the East China Sea.
"The Chinese milit ...
more
Europe Develops Self-removal Technology for Spacecraft
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 14, 2016 -
A new European project has an ambitious goal of cleaning up space for future generations. The Technology for Self-Removal of Spacecraft (TeSeR) program, that was introduced in May 2016, will develop a prototype for a module which will ensure that a defunct spacecraft possesses no danger for other vehicles in space.
The project is financed by the European Union's (EU) Horizon 2020 research ...
more
