Day: February 7, 2016

    North Korea fires rocket into space North Korea has defied international warnings and launched a long-range rocket carrying what it has said is a satellite. The rocket took off at around 9am Pyongyang time from the North's west coast, according to South Korea's defence ministry. In a state TV broadcast, a female North Korean announcer, wearing a traditional dress, said the "epochal" launch, personally ordered by leader Kim Jong-Un, had "successfully put our Earth observation satellite ... into orbit". Japan's NHK broadcaster reported that debris from the rocket was believed to have fallen about 155 miles (250km) off the southwest coast of the Korean Peninsula into the East China Sea about 14 minutes after the launch. North Korea launched a long-range missile on Feb. 7, 201...

    Air strikes have destroyed a radio station run by Islamic State jihadists in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, two months after the group took to the airwaves in a sign of their growing reach. The Pashto-language "Voice of the Caliphate" beamed IS propaganda in irregularnightly broadcasts from an undisclosed location in Nangarhar province bordering Pakistan. The Afghan defence ministry said the programme was broadcast from a moving vehicle and air strikes on Monday destroyed the transmission equipment hidden in the basement of a house in volatile Achin district. "The radio programme has not been heard since Tuesday," Achin district governor Haji Ghalib told AFP. "It was very demoralising for our troops and it is welcome news that it has been destroyed." The gr...