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Big barriers on FDI in Indian defence (East Asia Forum)

Rahul Nath Choudhury, ICWA In 2020, India changed its foreign direct investment (FDI) regulations to allow investments of up to 74 per cent in the defence manufacturing...
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Kenya – Is the BBI ruling a sign of judicial independence in Kenya? (Brookings)

John Mukum Mbaku On May 23, 2021, a special five-judge bench sitting at the High Court of Kenya at Nairobi declared unanimously that the Constitution...
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Libya – Libya’s peace process: What’s at stake for the Maghreb, 10 years after Gadhafi’s overthrow (Brookings)

Yasmina Abouzzohour Adecade after the overthrow of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Libya is set to hold elections this December to produce a unified government. As...
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Biodiversity/Indigenous People/Local Communities – Why traditional knowledge and Indigenous Peoples’ rights must be integrated across the new global biodiversity targets (IIED)

Krystyna Swiderska Most of the earth’s biodiversity is located on the territories of the world’s half-billion Indigenous Peoples, who manage about a quarter of the...
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Urban Poverty – Reducing urban poverty – lessons not learnt? (IIED)

David Satterthwaite and Diana Mitlin What have we learned from over five decades of initiatives meant to reduce urban poverty? And what, if any, benefits have been...
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Cybersecurity – What Is Cyber Command’s Role in Combating Ransomware? (Lawfare)

Erica D. Borghard, Lauren Zabierek The recent spate of ransomware attacks in the United States, including against critical infrastructure in the case of the Colonial Pipeline...
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Spaceborne Computer-2 shows results on space station (Space News)

Debra Werner After completing the first round of experiments on the International Space Station’s second-generation Spaceborne Computer, Hewlett Packard Enterprises and Microsoft executives say they...
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Former Momentus CTO reveals competing space logistics venture (Space News)

Debra Werner TransAstronautica, a startup founded by Joel Sercel, the former Momentus chief technology officer, is raising money for a competing space logistics venture. TransAstra’s business...
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South Korea’s Satrec Initiative to build constellation of high-resolution Earth observation satellites (Space News)

Park Si-soo Satrec Initiative, a satellite maker under South Korea’s Hanwha Group, will send a high-resolution imaging satellite called SpaceEye-T into low Earth orbit by...
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South Korea touts Artemis Accords as a way to settle international space issues (Space News)

Park Si-soo From the accumulation of space junk in low Earth orbit to questions concerning the ownership of space resources, the 21st century space race...
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Redwire opens digital engineering facility aimed at national security space agencies (Space News)

Sandra Erwin Redwire is opening a digital engineering facility where government agencies and aerospace companies can prototype hardware, design space architectures and concepts of operations,...
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South Korea to invest $13.6 billion to bolster defenses capabilities in outer space (Space News)

Park Si-soo South Korea will invest 16 trillion won ($13.6 billion) over the next 10 years in bolstering its defense capabilities in outer space. This...
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Blue Origin to perform first New Shepard launch under updated license (Space News)

Jeff Foust Blue Origin will conduct its next New Shepard suborbital mission Aug. 25 with a set of research payloads, but not people, on board...
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Tempeste magnetiche, ‘orologio solare’ sempre più puntuale (Global Science)

Barbara Ranghelli Il Sole ha un’attività ciclica causata dall’inversione del suo campo magnetico. Questo influenza la comparsa e scomparsa delle macchie solari che, sprigionando un’enorme quantità di...
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Tra asteroidi e comete, c’è di mezzo il sodio (Global Science)

Barbara Ranghelli E’ trascorsa da poco la notte di San Lorenzo, la notte in cui si è impegnati a guardare il cielo per cogliere la...
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Alluminio-26, il radionuclide che feconda i sistemi stellari (Global Science)

Barbara Ranghelli La costellazione di Ofiuco o del Serpentario continua a far parlare di sé. O meglio, continua a dare informazioni sulle origini del nostro sistema solare grazie alla...
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