Washington (AFP) May 10, 2024 The United States added 37 Chinese entities to a trade blacklist Thursday, including some companies accused of supporting a suspected spy balloon that flew over US soil last year. The Commerce Department said it also took aim at those that sought to acquire US goods to advance China's quantum technology capabilities....

Manila (AFP) May 10, 2024 The Philippine military must evolve fast because of threats to a "free and open" Asia-Pacific region, Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said Friday at the end of annual exercises with the United States. Teodoro, whose comments were made against the backdrop of a festering maritime row with China, said the military...

Budapest (AFP) May 9, 2024 Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Hungary on Thursday seeking a "new journey" with Beijing's closest European Union ally amid divisions with the West over the Ukraine war and global trade. The state visit to Hungary is the last leg of Xi's European tour, his first to the continent since 2019. In recent years,...

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 07, 2024 Capella Space Corp., a US-based provider of satellite data solutions, has launched its AI-driven Vessel Classification service for high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. This service is integrated with Capella's secure tasking web application and API, allowing users to simultaneously place Tasking...

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 07, 2024 Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a prominent provider of sub-meter resolution Earth Observation (EO) data, has announced its inclusion as a commercial vendor in the Global Data Marketplace (GDMP). This platform facilitates real-time e-commerce transactions for data and analytics services, catering to unclassified...

Washington DC (UPI) May 10, 2024 Israel will stand alone and fight Hamas "with its fingernails" if it has to, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed in response to the United States threatening to withhold weaponry if his administration follows through with a controversial plan to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah. "We are determined...