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Two moon landers built by private U.S. and Japanese companies are on their way to the moon after lifting off early Wednesday on a shared ride aboard a SpaceX rocket.

Three Wyoming Air National Guard C-130 Hercules equipped with the U.S. Forest Service's Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems and associated personnel were activated by U.S. Northern Command to help fight Los Angeles area wildfires.

More than half a million users have piled onto the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, days ahead of a looming ban on TikTok in the United States, according to data from app stores and social media videos.

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Bahraini Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Duaij bin Khalifa Al Khalifa rues the day he was photographed with Anthony Ritossa. The latter, a troubled former New York stockbroker who faked his background as the scion of a 600-year-old European olive-oil fortune, is exactly the [...]

France's foreign intelligence service, the DGSE, is to reform its internal security structure after radically overhauling its overall organisation and [...]

ChapsVision's intelligence-related solutions portfolio continues to expand. The big data specialist has purchased the secure messaging platform Frogtrust from Clavys [...]

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is building on a first trial run at a rapprochement with Taiwan in the island's [...]

Global consulting firm Protiviti is working to help TD Bank overhaul its anti-money laundering department after a historic $3.1bn settlement [...]

The uncertainty created by the resignation of Suez chief executive Sabrina Soussan in early December has yet to dissipate. Her [...]

Washington - Advertising data excluded from FBI's OSINTThe FBI's Directorate of Intelligence issued a request for information in late December [...]

Americas The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) seeks to develop quantum sensors for moving military platforms. Quantum sensors use quantum mechanics to sense minute variances in motion and electric and magnetic fields, achieving greater accuracy than conventional sensors. In technical terms, they extract information from individual atoms rather than from a collection of atoms and are less vulnerable to signal jamming and other electromagnetic interference that traditional light- and sound-based data sensors are vulnerable to. The Marine Corps has awarded Forterra a contract to integrate its autonomy package on the Remotely Operated Ground Unit for Expeditionary Fires ground vehicle, the Pentagon’s first-ever production contract for off-road autonomous driving capability. The company’s advanced stack and AutoDrive system gives the ROGUE Fires vehicle – built by Oshkosh Defense – off-road, self-driving technology in “nearly any environment,” which moves “beyond Leader-Follower capabilities,” Forterra said in a Jan. 13 statement. Leader-Follower technology uses a lead vehicle to guide other unmanned vehicles behind it. Middle East & Africa Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has introduced a new loitering munition, reportedly capable of reaching a range of 20 kilometers. Dubbed the “Razvan,” the kamikaze drone was unveiled during the recent Payambar-e Azam (The Great Prophet) 19 […]

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The White House announced that the Navy chose to name the fifth and sixth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers as USS William J. Clinton (CVN-82) and USS George W. Bush (CVN-83), after the two former presidents. The U.S. President Joe Biden announced the names chosen by the U.S. Navy for its next two aircraft carriers […]

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An adjusted process for the U.S. Air Force’s acquisition of the Boeing T-7A Red Hawk trainer has been announced, with the decision on commencing production delayed by one year. A joint venture between U.S. aerospace giant Boeing and Swedish manufacturer Saab, the T-7 Red Hawk was selected as the U.S. Air Force’s future jet trainer […]

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The UK’s House of Commons committee’s GCAP report admits that 2035 is an ambitious target date and, even if progress has been positive, the program needs to avoid mistakes and break the mold set by previous programs. The UK’s Parliament released on Jan. 14, 2025, the House of Commons committee report on the Global Combat […]

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The Chinese Communist Party has stepped up efforts to spread its influence in Europe. Whether it be through students, academics, "friends of China" groups or cultural players, China's ruling party is initiating new channels of communication coordinated directly by the United Front Work Department. [...]

The "young guard" of the Emirates' ruling Al-Nahyan family is increasingly moving into positions of power in Abu Dhabi. On 2 January, Crown Prince Khaled bin Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (KbM, IO, 22/07/22), the 43-year-old son of UAE President Mohammed [...]