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Iraq: Villagers suffer as Arab-Kurdish tensions lead to Islamic State resurgence (Alex MacDonald, Middle East Eye)

One of the most commonly quoted Kurdish phrases is the saying: "Kurds have no friends but the mountains." But for the inhabitants of the village...

NASA investigating issue with Lucy solar array (Jeff Foust, Space News)

Engineers are investigating why one of the two solar arrays on NASA’s Lucy spacecraft may have failed to lock into place when deployed after...

PlanetIQ announces highest-performance radio occultation satellite (Debra Werner, Space News)

PlanetIQ executives are delighted with weather data being acquired by the Golden, Colorado, firm’s first operational satellite launched in June. So delighted, in fact,...

TrustPoint raises $2 million for GPS alternative (Debra Werner, Space News)

TrustPoint Inc., a startup developing a global navigation satellite system (GNSS), has raised $2 million in seed funding from venture capital firm DCVC. With the...

NASA expects vaccination mandates to have little impact on Artemis 1 preparations (Jeff Foust, Space News)

As NASA prepares to install the Orion spacecraft on the first Space Launch System rocket, agency officials played down any effect coronavirus vaccine mandates...

It’s Time for Rapprochement Between Turkey and the United States (Hasan Murat Mercan, Defense One)

Recent developments unfolding in the Middle East, North Africa, Black Sea Basin, and Asia have rippling effects that are testing the robustness of the...

What Can the United Nations Do About Counterterrorism? (Naureen Chowdhury Fink, Defense One)

In the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United Nations Security Council moved swiftly and laid the keystone of an international...

Turkey: US proposed to sell it F-16 fighters (Burak Ege Bekdil, Defense News)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Oct. 17 the United States has proposed the sale of a batch of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey...

Back to the tech future: Do emerging critical technologies provide an ‘edge’ against new global uncertainties and threats? (James Der Derian, ORF)

Would an over-reliance on like-minded partnerships result in the splintering of technology norms, standards and rules? This remains a key question as we delve...

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