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Eagle Graphite and University of British Columbia partner on development of silicon-modified anodes

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The supply of flake graphite is concentrated primarily in China and Mozambique, with Brazil, North Korea, Canada and India accounting for nearly all of the remainder of production. Flake graphite accounts for approximately 40% of global natural graphite supply. The ARC program in British Columbia (B.C.)

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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What's at stake is control of international 5G networks, which are expected to transform global communications. Huawei has long been regarded as a rogue player in the international telecoms market with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Washington embarked on an intense campaign to block Huawei, and Ms.

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Aurus Senat limo that Putin gifted to Kim uses South Korean parts, data shows

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The two leaders took turns driving the armoured limousine during Putin’s pomp-filled visit, his first in nearly a quarter of a century to North Korea, in a demonstration of the two nuclear powers’ increasingly close ties. Customers include Turkmenistan President Serdar Berdymukhamedov.

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Space Station Incident Demands Independent Investigation

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In an International Space Station major milestone more than fifteen years in the making, a long-delayed Russian science laboratory named Nauka automatically docked to the station on 29 July, prompting sighs of relief in the Mission Control Centers in Houston and Moscow. This is a guest post. His home page is www.jamesoberg.com.

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How to Disable a Nuclear Warhead in Midflight

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Three of them—Russia, China, and North Korea—have publicly declared irreconcilable opposition to American-style liberal democracy. Seventy years ago only the Soviet Union and the United States possessed nuclear weapons. Today there are eight or nine countries that have weapons of mass destruction.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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But there is room to cut down on espionage through international agreements because it isn’t the case that financial espionage is legal. So I think that Russia, North Korea, Iran, they’re the geopolitical peasants, so to speak. Russia is actually a tricky situation because Russia is an intermediate power.

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