David Shadrach

North Korea: US urges all nations to cut ties with Pyongyang The US has urged "all nations" to cut diplomatic and trade ties with North Korea after the country's latest ballistic missile test. Speaking at the UN Security Council, US envoy Nikki Haley said President Trump had asked his Chinese counterpart to cut off oil supplies to Pyongyang. She said the US did not seek conflict but that North Korea's regime would be "utterly destroyed" if war broke out. The warning came after Pyongyang tested its first missile in two months. North Korea said the missile fired on Wednesday, which it said reached an altitude of about 4,475km (2,780 miles) - more than 10 times the height of the International Space Station - held a warhead capable of re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The claim was not proven and experts have cast doubt on the country's ability to master such technology. However North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un called the launch "impeccable...

Trump hits out at UK PM Theresa May after far-right video tweets Donald Trump has told UK Prime Minister Theresa May to focus on "terrorism" in the UK after she criticised his sharing of far-right videos. "Don't focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom," Mr Trump tweeted. The US president had earlier retweeted three inflammatory videos posted online by a British far- right group. Mrs May's spokesman said it was "wrong for the president to have done this". The US and the UK are close allies and often described as having a "special relationship". Theresa May was the first foreign leader to visit the Trump White House. The videos shared by Mr Trump, who has more than 40 million followers, were initially posted by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, a group founded by former members of the far-right British National Party (BNP). Ms Fransen, 31, has been charg...

Ex-Egypt PM Ahmed Shafiq 'blocked from leaving UAE' NEWS / ABDEL FATTAH EL-SISI Egypt: Is the media's 'Sisi-mania' waning? READ MORE What is it like to live under President Sisi? OPINION What happened to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood? by Khalil al- Anani Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Middle East United Arab Emirates Politic A former Egyptian prime minister says he is not being allowed to leave the United Arab Emirates, the country where he has resided since 2012 after losing the Egyptian elections to Mohamed Morsi. The reason for his travel ban is unknown, Ahmed Shafiq said in an exclusive video statement to Al Jazeera on Wednesday. "I was surprised to know that I am prevented from leaving the UAE for reasons that I don’t understand and I am not willing to understand," he said. Earlier in the day, Shafiq had announced that he intended to run in the 2018 presidential elections against current President Abdel Fateh el-Sisi. Shafiq, who also participated in the...

What a US embassy in Jerusalem means to Palestinians NEWS / ISRAEL Israel to expand illegal settlement in East Jerusalem Jerusalem's Old City: Concern over Jewish expansion Jerusalem Israel United States Battle for Jerusalem Politics SIGN UP Trump has previously vowed to move the embassy to Jerusalem [File: Reuters] New comments by US officials reiterating a pledge by President Donald Trump to move the country's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem reflect the futility of peace negotiations, Palestinians say. US Vice President Mike Pence said on Tuesday that Trump is "actively" exploring "when and how" to relocate the embassy. He made the remarks while attending a United Nations event marking the 70th anniversary of a vote for the partition of Palestine , which aided Israel in establishing a Jewish state. During his election campaign last year, Trump repeatedly promised to move the embassy and recognise Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. In June, how...

Bosnian Croat Slobodan Praljak dies on drinking poison NEWS / YUGOSLAVIA WATCH: Omarska's survivors - Bosnia 1992 Bosnian Croat leaders & their sentences Jadranko Prlic, prime minister of the Croat statelet Herzeg-Bosnia: 25 years Bruno Stojic, defence minister of Herzeg- Bosnia: 20 years Slobodan Praljak, HVO chief: 20 years Milivoje Petkovic, deputy commander of HVO: 20 years Valentin Coric, commander of HVO\'s military police: 16 years Berislav Pusic, president of Herzeg-Bosnia \'s Commission for the Exchange of Prisoners: 10 years WATCH: Al Jazeera World - Women who Refuse to Die Bosnia Yugoslavia Netherlands Crimes against humanity UN SIGN UP A commander of Bosnian Croat forces during the Bosnian War has died from drinking what he claimed to be poison at the war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. The death on Wednesday was first reported by Croatian state TV. Upon hearing that his 20-year prison sentence had been upheld, General Slobodan Praljak s...

African refugees bought, sold and murdered in Libya NEWS / REFUGEES A health offical in Sebha told Al Jazeera the city's morgue is overflowing with corpses [Al Jazeera] The refugees and migrants are smuggled into Libya by a network of criminal gangs on the promise of reaching Europe's shores [Al Jazeera] The refugees who died are never identified and many are buried without names or proper graves, according to a health official in Sebha [Al Jazeera] READ MORE UN considers sanctions to fight Libya slave trade Libya Refugees Slave trade Africa Middle East SIGN UP Migrants arrive at a naval base after they were rescued by Libyan coastal guards in Tripoli, Libya [File: Ismail Zitouny/Reuters] Hundreds of African refugees are being bought and sold in "slave markets" across Libya every week, a human trafficker has told Al Jazeera, with many of them held for ransom or forced into prostitution and sexual exploitation to pay their captors and smugglers. Many of them ended up b...