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'Aircraft' heard before Sudan plant blast: witnessesKhartoum (AFP) Oct 24, 2012 An aircraft or missile flew over a Sudanese military factory shortly before it exploded and burst into flames on Wednesday, residents said, but a top official dismissed their comments. An AFP reporter several kilometres (miles) away saw two or three fires flaring across a wide area, with heavy smoke and intermittent flashes of white light bursting above the state-owned Yarmouk facility in southern Khartoum. "I heard a sound like a plane in the sky, but I didn't see any light from a plane. Then I ... read more |
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  Jihadists build up forces in Mali bastion Hundreds of Islamist fighters from Algeria to Sudan are reported headed to northern Mali as jihadists linked to al-Qaida in the Sahel region prepare to repulse an offensive by regional armies aided by France and, more discreetly, the United States. ... more | .. |
  Fire, explosions at Khartoum military factory: witnesses Fire raged and explosions tore through the night sky early Wednesday at the Yarmouk military factory in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, witnesses and state-linked media said. ... more | .. |
  Iraq wants faster delivery of U.S. F-16s Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has accelerated his country's rearmament program with multibillion-dollar contracts with the United States, Russia and Czech Republic in the last two weeks. ... 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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  Crew of Argentina navy ship 'free to leave' Ghana The crew of an Argentine naval frigate detained for three weeks near Accra over a bond dispute can leave Ghana, an official said Tuesday, after Buenos Aires announced plans to evacuate most of the sailors on board. ... more | .. |
  Israel's Netanyahu to meet Hollande in Paris Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel next week to France for his first meeting with President Francois Hollande since he came to power in May, a statement from Netanyahu's office said. ... more | .. |
  Flooding cut Nigerian oil output by around 20 percent Severe flooding temporarily cut Nigeria's oil output by around 500,000 barrels per day, or some 20 percent of total production in Africa's largest crude producer, an industry regulator said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Zimbabwe weighs cost of too many elephants A herd of elephants hobbles past a cluster of acacia trees to a water-hole deep in Zimbabwe's vast Hwange game reserve, attracted by the drone of generators pumping water round the clock into the pool. ... more |
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  Two Guinea-Bissau politicians badly beaten by soldiers Two politicians allied to Guinea-Bissau's ousted regime were severely beaten by soldiers after their arrest in the wake of an alleged coup, government and family members said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Climate variability and conflict risk in East Africa measured by Boulder team While a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder shows the risk of human conflict in East Africa increases somewhat with hotter temperatures and drops a bit with higher precipitation, it ... more | .. |
  Embraer delivers Super Tucano aircraft to Mauritania Brazil's top planemaker Embraer said Monday it has delivered an undisclosed number of its A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft to the Mauritanian Air Force. ... more | .. |
 Iraq PM in power grab by ousting bank chief: experts The targeting of Iraq's well-respected central bank chief appears to be a move by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to consolidate power and sends a bad message to international investors, experts and diplomats say. ... more |
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 Floods in S.Africa kill eight Heavy rains that lashed South Africa's southeast left eight people dead over the weekend and caused extensive damage to property, an official said on Monday. ... more | .. |
Guinea-Bissau blames Portugal after foiled coup bid Guinea-Bissau security forces were hunting Monday for armed men behind a foiled coup bid in the chronically unstable nation which the government has accused former colonial power Portugal of instigating. ... more | .. |
 Mugabe, Tsvangirai call for peaceful constitution talks Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his arch rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday called for peace as they opened talks on a draft of a new constitution that would pave the way for elections. ... more | .. |
 China lodges protest over killing in Nigeria China said Monday it had lodged a diplomatic protest over the fatal shooting of a Chinese worker in Nigeria and demanded that the African nation take "concrete measures" to better protect its nationals. ... 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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  Egypt pushes Ethiopia to scrap Nile dam Egypt increasingly views Ethiopia's plan to build a massive 6,000-megawatt hydroelectric dam on the Nile River as a threat to its national security because it will seriously cut the Arab state's water supplies. ... more | .. |
  Mauritanian soldier describes shooting at president A Mauritanian soldier said to have shot and wounded President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz by misadventure on October 13 has given his version of events on state television. ... more | .. |
 UN official visits Benin over west African floods A top UN humanitarian official visited Benin on Friday as flooding ravaged parts of west and central Africa, affecting some 1.5 million people. ... more | .. |
 Attacks, clash in north Nigeria kill several, burn buildings Attacks and gun battles between suspected Islamists and security forces in a northeastern Nigerian town have killed several people and destroyed buildings, residents and authorities said Friday, while unrest also hit another city. ... more |
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 Hong Kong customs seize four tonnes of smuggled ivory Hong Kong customs officers seized almost four tonnes of ivory worth about $3.4 million, hidden in shipments from Kenya and Tanzania, officials said Saturday. ... more | .. |
 Fear stalks DR Congo's rebel-held territory "Women and girls are raped by M23. They steal our goats and property from our homes," said a resident of Rugari, in a rebel-held part of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. ... more | .. |
 Argentina: UN an option over Ghana ship seizure Argentina on Friday threatened to take Ghana before the United Nations if it refuses to take responsibility for the seizure earlier this month of a warship belonging to Buenos Aires. ... more | .. |
  Stanford researchers use solar power to study elephants in Africa A team of elephant researchers from Stanford University has transformed a remote corner of southern Africa into a high-tech field camp run entirely on sunlight. The seasonal solar-powered research c ... more |
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Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program
Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm
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Argentine military official resigns over warship seizure The head of Argentina's military intelligence resigned Thursday in the wake of a warship seizure by Ghana over a bond dispute, a source said. ... more | .. |
  Fund in Argentine ship row offers to repatriate some sailors A fund whose court claims have led to the seizure of an Argentine warship in Ghana has offered to repatriate its stranded sailors who are "of other nationalities," according to a letter obtained by AFP Friday. ... more | .. |
 Safety still concern at Zambia's Chinese-owned mines Work conditions at Zambia's Chinese-owned copper mines have improved, but the Asian giant's labour record is still clouding its sizeable investments into the country, Human Rights Watch said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Iraq blocks Turkish buses headed for Saudi Iraq on Thursday refused to allow more than 120 Turkish buses to cross into Saudi Arabia, apparently loaded with Mecca pilgrims, because the passengers did not have visas issued by Baghdad, officials said. ... more |
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 400 plants and animals added to 'threatened' list An island-dwelling cockroach and a tiny snail were declared extinct Wednesday while 400 plants and animals were added to a threatened "Red List" as global environment ministers met in India. ... more | .. |
 Vincent the hippo becomes dish for Zulu king A South African hippopotamus named Vincent has been killed and cooked for Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini after the animal wounded a game ranger, local media reported Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Liberian president in Ivory Coast to discuss border security Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf arrived Thursday in Ivory Coast to discuss security on the countries' border, which has been violated in recent months by armed gangs raiding the Ivorian side from Liberia. ... more | .. |
 Morsi defends ex-army chief against corruption report Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi sought on Thursday to reassure the military after a state-owned newspaper reported corruption charges against the two army chiefs he sacked in August. ... more |
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