North Korea's mystery ship: The curious case of the Hao Fan 6
Updated 0426 GMT (1226 HKT) December 8, 2017
The United Nations brought down the hammer and that was it for the Hao Fan 6.
On October 10, the hulking, 460-foot (140 meter) cargo ship was banned from entering every single port across the globe, punished for violating sanctions on North Korea.
It was just south of South Korea the day the news was announced, according to tracking information by MarineTraffic. Its transponder pinged continuously until 11:17 p.m. Coordinated Universal Time, the data showed.
Then the Hao Fan 6 disappeared.
'They treated her like a dog': tragedy of the six-year-old killed at Croatian border
Madina Hussiny’s family say they were put in harm’s way after crossing from Serbia, then had to fight for the return of her body
When the train hit six-year-old Madina Hussiny, her family stumbled to the watching Croatian border police begging for help, her body limp in their arms.
The same officers had ordered the exhausted Afghan family down railway tracks towards Serbia in the dark without warning them there might still be trains running, said Madina’s mother, Muslima Hussiny. But desperate and terrified, they had nowhere else to turn.
Madina was a casualty of a slow-burning crisis along Europe’s borders that aid groups and activists say is causing untold suffering.
Thousands of migrants and refugees trapped in Serbia, where they have almost no chance of successfully claiming asylum and little hope of moving on legally, are resorting to increasingly desperate means to try to cross into the European Union.
Bel Air's multi-million dollar mansions get no special treatment from California's wildfires
For older residents of the exclusive neighbourhood the latest emergency brings back memories of the famous fire of 1961
As wildfires rage against Southern California, even the exclusive Bel Air neighbourhood, a six-mile, gated enclave in the foothills of Los Angeles has been hit by the Skirball Fire - prompting the evacuation of 700 homes on some of the most expensive land in the US,
It is land originally set aside and gated in the 1920s by a local oil baron, but now home to many Hollywood celebrities and moguls. Media baron Rupert Murdoch’s $30-million Moraga Estate and working vineyard was damaged by one of the area fires. Another fire-proximate property is Beyonce and Jay-Z’s $135-million mansion, a 30,000 square-foot spread, said to house four swimming pools, a helipad, and bullet-proof windows. Other celebrities living in Bel Air’s cushy confines include Jennifer Aniston and Elon Musk.
Turkish Iran sanctions witness Reza Zarrab 'threatened with knife'
A key witness in a trial over the dodging of US sanctions against Iran has said he was attacked by a fellow inmate. Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab said he feared for his safety and that of his family.
Reza Zarrab, who is US prosecutors' star witness, said he was attacked by a knife-wielding inmate who was told to kill him for cooperating with US authorities.
The trader, who finished seven days of testimony in the trial of a Turkish banker, described the attack while in court.
"I came face-to-face with an individual who tried to take my life," Zarrab said, in a dramatic ending to proceedings at the Manhattan federal court on Thursday. Zarrab said the inmate confronted him with a knife and said "he had received instructions to kill me because I was cooperating."
Scores of Palestinians hurt as Jerusalem protests rage
Thousands of Palestinians have taken to the streets of Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to protest against the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a contentious move that has inflamed tensions in Palestine and across the region.
In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces in a handful of cities throughout Thursday.
Over 50 Palestinians were injured in the protests, and 16 were sent to hospital, according to local health authorities in the West Bank.
'Samurai sword' attack leaves three dead at Tokyo shrine
Three people have died and another was wounded at a well-known Shinto shrine in Tokyo in what appears to be a succession feud, police say.
The suspect is thought to have killed his sister, the chief priestess, as she was stepping out of her car on Thursday evening, police told Kyodo news agency.
He later allegedly killed another woman, believed to be an accomplice in the ambush, before taking his own life.
A bloodied Samurai sword was found at the scene, along with other knives.
A longstanding feud
The attack began when the 58-year-old priestess, Nagako Tomioka, got out of her car at the shrine.
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