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 Surrey UK (SPX) Nov 05, 2012 Optical Surfaces Ltd. has established a worldwide reputation of being able to deal with the extremely tight tolerances and accuracy that hyperbolic optics demand. Hyperboloids are generally used in optical telescope systems where good off-axis performance is an important requirement. Optical Surfaces supplied hyperboloids have been at the heart of many deep space and earth observation satellites including BNSC's Top Sat, the NASA swift explorer as well as ESA's XMM and NigeriaSAT-2. Benefiti ... read more |
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  West seeks to curb al-Qaida kidnappings The United States and France are backing moves to muster an African-led intervention force to smash the jihadist stronghold in northern Mali, and one of the main objectives is to eradicate the kidnapping of Westerners for ransom. ... more | |
  Libya court condemns 5 army officers to death in absentia A Libyan military court on Wednesday ordered the execution of five army officers, who were being tried in absentia, on charges of indiscriminate shelling of civilians and of rape during the 2011 conflict. ... more | |
  West Africa army chiefs adopt Mali intervention strategy West African army chiefs have adopted a military plan to expel Islamist rebels controlling northern Mali, as one extremist group pushes for a negotiated solution to the crisis. ... 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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  Smallholder farmers need improved stake in Nile's development A new book finds that the Nile river, together with its associated tributaries and rainfall, could provide 11 countries - including a new country, South Sudan, and the drought-plagued countries of t ... more | |
 Uganda threat to quit Somalia poses danger Uganda's threat to pull its troops out of Somalia in retaliation for allegations it backs rebel forces in war-ravaged Congo could dangerously weaken Somalia's fragile, Western-backed transitional federal government only weeks after it was installed. ... 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
Planet and Carbon Mapper Plan SWIR-Only Tanager Satellite for Wider Methane Detection | |
Mali Islamist rebels urge dialogue, halt to hostilities Ansar Dine, an Islamist group occupying northern Mali, called Tuesday for other fighters to join them in political dialogue, as military chiefs plot strategies to expel the extremists by force. ... more | |
  Anthrax kills 30 hippos in S. Africa's renowned Kruger park An outbreak of anthrax has killed at least 30 hippopotamus in South Africa's famed Kruger National Park wildlife reserve, the country's parks authority said Tuesday. ... more | |
  Nigeria floods kill 363, displace 2.1 million since July Flooding in Nigeria since July has killed 363 people and displaced 2.1 million in what the president has called an unprecedented situation in Africa's most populous nation, officials said Monday. ... more | |
 Nigeria military kills about 40 in northeast: residents Nigerian soldiers shot dead dozens of young men during raids in a city seen as a stronghold of a radical Islamist group, residents and a morgue worker told AFP on Friday. ... more |
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  Fugitive Iraq VP handed second death term Iraq's vice president Tareq al-Hashemi, a critic of premier Nuri al-Maliki and one of the country's top Sunni officials, was handed a second death sentence in absentia on Thursday. ... more | |
 Scientists Find Aphid Resistance in Black Raspberry There's good news for fans of black raspberries: A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist and his commercial colleague have found black raspberries that have resistance to a disease-spreadi ... 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
Top Chinese gaming companies continue to challenge | |
  Commentary: Pakistan's heavyweights Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's national hero who peddled nuclear weapons secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya (under Moammar Gadhafi), now has his own political party to promote his presidential ambitions. He is also a media columnist and his anti-U.S. lucubrations are read in both English and Urdu. ... more | |
Lesotho fears cash shortfall as food crisis deepens The Lesotho government fears it may not raise enough cash to avert a pending food crisis caused by two successive crop failures, the head of the country's disaster management authority said Thursday. ... more | |
  China grants 95% tariff discount for Angolan exports China has granted a 95 percent tariff discount to exports coming from oil-rich Angola, officials said Thursday, after the signing of a new round of trade deals. ... more | |
 Iraq opens biggest trade fair in 20 years Iraq opened on Thursday its biggest trade fair in more than 20 years, the latest step in Baghdad's efforts to rebuild an economy battered by decades of conflict and sanctions and combat unemployment. ... more |
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