
US Military Drops 'Mother of All Bombs' on IS
The US has dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on IS in Afghanistan
The US military says it has dropped a 21,600lb (9,800kg) bomb on a tunnel complex used by Islamic State militants in Afghanistan. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), known as "the mother of all bombs", is the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used by the US in a conflict.
It's exactly three years, to the day, since 276 schoolgirls were abducted from the small town of Chibok in Nigeria by the Islamist militant group - Boko Haram. Today in the capital Abuja the "Bring Back Our Girls" Campaign is holding a march to draw attention to the girls' plight.
There's a lot of concern that North Korea will launch another missile test and keep developing its nuclear weapons. Let’s speak now to someone who accurately predicted the last nuclear test. We hear from Joe Bermudez - an analyst with the website 38 North – who accurately predicted the last nuclear test in 2016.
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