1 year agoLIFTOFF. Shooting into the sky at 6:31am ET, the Soyuz rocket carrying @AstroAnnimal, @Astro_DavidS and Oleg Kononenko leaves Earth on six-hour journey to their new home on @Space_Station.
Launch key has been inserted. Launch sequence in automated mode. #SoyuzMS11
1 year agoClamshell gantry retraction is underway. #SoyuzMS11
Killing of key Taliban commander Abdul Manan will have a significant impact on insecurity in certain provinces: Interior Ministry's spokesman
An attack is currently taking place near the locality of the Afghan Attorney General office in Kabul city. Heavy gunfire reported.
Duterte says he takes marijuana to help him cope with his punishing schedule.
Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 23km N of Misawa, Japan
1 year agoSamangan police confirmed that Taliban has released 45 truck drivers on Monday who were abducted in Dara-e-Soof district in the province on Sunday. The police said that "Taliban has asked drivers to pay money for each delivery of coal from the district".
Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 229km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia
[email protected]: China has agreed to reduce and remove tariffs on cars coming into China from the U.S. Currently the tariff is 40%.
KCNA: "He stressed that in order to meet the daily increasing people's demand, it is necessary to keep pushing ahead with the work of ensuring world-level quality with an emphasis put on ensuring diverse patterns, decent colorswhile meeting the aesthetic tastes of our people."
KCNA: "Praising a young needle worker who just graduated from a school for successfully handling an auto-sewing machine operated by a control program at the uppers-making shop, he called for giving full play to creative wisdom of technicians and skilled workers."
KCNA: "Kim Jong Un said that once old and shabby factory has undergone a complete change, noting that the factory, which Chairman Kim Jong Il had visited during the last period of his life and so much worried about, has become a model and standard shoes factory."
KCNA: "Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, inspected the Wonsan Shoes Factory."
Key Taliban Member Killed In Helmand
China has also "agreed to start purchasing agricultural product from our farmers immediately," says @PressSec in statement.
Earthquake of magnitude 4.9 - 72km W of Tugu Hilir, Indonesia
Mattis: North Korea still biggest threat to the United States during QandA with @BretBaier at @ReaganDefense
Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 242km SW of Sibolga, Indonesia
Iranian official says oil-for-goods deal planned with South Korea
Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 - 67km E of Xoixar, China
1 year agoBlast in a train in India's Assam, 14 people injured
Earthquake of magnitude 6.3 - 293km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia
1 year agoSoyuz MS-11 reaches launch pad. Liftoff - Monday
Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 34km WNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan
1 year agoRussia test-launched interceptor of "missile defense" system
KCNA: "He said that he felt refreshed, pleasant and very satisfied looking at the mountains of fish, adding that he used to feel like making time to sail out to the sea and fish with the fishermen whenever he heard the report of fishing results every day."
KCNA: "Seeing the fish blocks filled at the freezing warehouse, he expressed great pleasure, saying they look like a treasure mountain and gold bars and the warehouse is almost filled with fish in a few days of the intensive fishing campaign."
KCNA: "Kim Jong Ungave field guidance to the fishery stations in the eastern coastal area which are busy with winter intensive fishing campaign."
