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GMV Leads Satellite Navigation Project In Collaboration With The South African National Space AgencyRockville, MD (SPX) Jul 16, 2012 GMV is leading a major satellite navigation project in collaboration with the South African National Space Agency (SANSA). The project, SBAS Awareness and Training for South Africa (SATSA), will increase the technological navigation capacity in the South African region ultimately improving location identification and tracking capabilities for Safety-of-Life Services especially during emergency or disaster situations. Forming part of the European Commission's 7th Framework Program (FP7), SATS ... read more |
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  Iraq seeks to speed up F-16 deliveries Iraq wants the Pentagon to speed up delivery of the 36 F-16IQ jet fighters it ordered from Lockheed Martin as it seeks to fast track the development of its armed forces following the U.S. military withdrawal in December. ... more | .. |
  Clinton lands in Israel on last-leg of world tour US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Israel late on Sunday for top-level talks with Israeli officials expected to focus on Iran's nuclear programme and the stalled peace process. ... more | .. |
  Afro-Japanese fusion music puzzles traditionalists One of Africa's most traditional instruments, the thumb piano, may look a little out of place in the hands of Sakaki Mango, a Japanese musician who has adopted it as his own. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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  South Africa recalls 500,000 HIV test kits: ministry South Africa is recalling 500,000 HIV test kits it ordered from a South Korean company despite a World Health Organisation (WHO) warning over inconclusive results, the health ministry said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Over 2,000 evacuated, dozens stranded in South Africa storms Rescue workers evacuated over 2,000 people and dozens of trucks were stranded as heavy rains and snow battered southern parts of South Africa over a freezing weekend, officials said. ... more | .. |
Hundreds flee Nigerian villages ahead of army raid: official Hundreds of villagers have quit their homes in central Nigeria ahead of a planned army raid on suspected militant hideouts, over recent attacks that killed more than 100 people, the army said Monday. ... more | .. |
  New Au. sediba fossils discovered in rock South African scientists will share the country's latest fossil discovery with the world using live virtual technology. Scientists from the Wits Institute for Human Evolution based at the Univ ... more |
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  Defected Syrian envoy lashes out at Assad Nawaf Fares, who this week defected as Syria's ambassador to Iraq, on Saturday accused President Bashar al-Assad of allowing Al-Qaeda to use Syria as a springboard for attacks in his former host country. ... more | .. |
Up to Africans to decide on Mali intervention: Hollande French President Francois Hollande said Saturday that it was up to the community in Africa to decide how and when to intervene militarily over the Islamist occupation of northern Mali. ... more | .. |
Annual Namibia seal cull to start amid protests Namibia's annual seal hunt, which will see some 86,000 Cape fur seals slaughtered by end November, starts on Sunday amid outcry from conservation groups that brand it a massacre for trade purposes. ... more | .. |
  World Bank under fire for Ethiopia-Kenya power line Human Rights Watch on Wednesday urged the World Bank to withhold support for a power line that would take electricity from Ethiopia to Kenya, citing environmental and human rights concerns. ... more |
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  Soluxe Solar Applauds Accomplishment of "Fuel-less Flight" When the Solar Impulse HB-SIA, a solar plane that can fly day or night without any fuel, completes the final leg of its 5000 km round trip journey between Switzerland and Morocco it will have made h ... more | .. |
 Sahel army chiefs meet on Mali crisis Army chiefs from four Sahel nations met in Nouakchott on Wednesday to discuss the worsening security crisis in occupied northern Mali, the Mauritanian press agency reported. ... more | .. |
  Israel deploys missile system on Egypt border The Israeli army has placed an Iron Dome air defence system battery by the Red Sea resort of Eilat near the border with Egypt, a statement from the military said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  France sends emergency anti-locust aid France said this week it is mobilizing emergency efforts to stop locust swarms in Africa's Sahel from spreading farther into drought-stricken Niger and Mali. ... more |
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DAMPE space telescope finds universal spectral feature that narrows field on cosmic ray origins
ThinKom Develops Self-Funded Mobile HPM Weapon to Counter Drone Swarms
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Liberia leader warns of new wars without arms deal Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said Thursday that Africa will face more conflict like her country's devastating civil war unless arms trade treaty negotiators produce a tough accord. ... more | .. |
  Egypt's power struggle could last years The power struggle between Egypt's newly elected Islamist president and the generals who have held power for six decades could drag on for years, analysts say. ... more | .. |
 Ancient domesticated remains are oldest in southern Africa Researchers have found evidence of the earliest known instance of domesticated caprines (sheep and goats) in southern Africa, dated to the end of the first millennium BC, providing new data to the o ... more | .. |
Annan to brief UN Security Council on Syria UN and Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan will brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday on the Syria crisis after a tour through Damascus, Tehran and Baghdad, he told journalists in Iraq. ... more |
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  Salafists stage sit-in for Tunisians held in Iraq Hardline Salafists on Wednesday joined a protest by parents of 22 Tunisians detained in Iraq to protest the government's failure to repatriate them, an AFP journalist reported. ... more | .. |
  ONR Sensor and Software Suite Hunts Down More Than 600 Suspect Boats A new sensor and software suite sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) recently returned from West Africa after helping partner nations track and identify target vessels of interest as part ... more | .. |
 South African farmer equips sheep with cell phones A South African farmer is fielding phone calls from his sheep, after equipping them with cell phones to keep tabs on the flock amid recent livestock thefts, according to local press Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Mali jihadists threaten North Africa Algerian jihadists are reported to have reinforced Islamist fighters linked to al-Qaida in their self-declared state in northern Mali amid signs the conflict there may be spilling over across the drought-hit region spanning North Africa. ... more |
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War vets threaten Angola elections over unpaid pensions A decade after the end of Angola's brutal civil war, veterans are threatening to block general elections in seven weeks if authorities fail to pay them their promised pensions. ... more | .. |
Egypt top court freezes Morsi decree: judicial source Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court on Tuesday froze a decree issued by President Mohamed Morsi reinstating the Islamist-led parliament, a judicial source said. ... more | .. |
 Embattled Sahel facing deadly cholera outbreak The conflict in Mali could turn a cholera outbreak that has already killed 60 people in the Sahel this year into a serious regional epidemic, the UN children's agency said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
Mali to form 1,200-strong elite force to protect transition Mali's transition government on Monday announced the creation of an elite force of 1,200 troops to protect the leaders of the country's embattled interim regime. ... more |
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  Tutu pleads for peace on eve of South Sudan anniversary Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu on Sunday appealed for peace in troubled South Sudan, on the eve of the country's first anniversary. ... more | .. |
 Developing world has less than five percent chance of meeting UN child hunger target Insufficient progress has been made in most developing countries to meet the United Nations' target of halving the proportion of children who suffer from hunger by 2015 compared with 1990 levels, ac ... more | .. |
UN soldier dies as DR Congo rebels take Uganda border post A UN soldier from India was killed in clashes between renegade soldiers and DR Congo troops on the border with Uganda, the United Nations said Friday as the mutineers took a key border post. ... more |
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