Essex lorry deaths: 19-year-old Vietnamese woman feared to be among 39 victims found in trailer
A 19-year-old Vietnamese woman is feared to be among the 39 migrants who were found dead in a lorry in Essex. Relatives said Bui Thi Nhung paid a smuggler more than $10,000 (£7,800) to travel to Britain in the hope of working in a nail bar. Hundreds of people attended a church ceremony to pray…
Man charged with 39 counts of manslaughter after bodies found in back of truck
BASILDON, England – A man has been charged with 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people after 39 bodies were discovered in the back of a truck he was driving outside London. . Maurice Robinson, 25, of Craigavon, Northern Ireland, is due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates Court on Monday, according to a statement from Essex Police. He is also charged with conspiracy…
‘Many’ dead as Myanmar military sinks boats carrying kidnapped troops: Arakan Army
By Thu Thu Aung YANGON, Oct 27 (Reuters) – Myanmar’s army sunk several boats carrying dozens of soldiers and police officers taken hostage by rebels in the restive western Rakhine state, the Arakan Army said on Sunday, adding that many had died. The ethnic armed group abducted more than 50 people, most of them members…
Argentina’s President-Elect Picks Mexico For First Trip Abroad
(Bloomberg) — Argentina’s president-elect Alberto Fernandez will go to Mexico in his first trip abroad, signaling an interest in aligning himself with like-minded leftist leaders in Latin America such as Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Fernandez is set to travel to meet the Mexican president next week, according to a person with knowledge of the decision.…
Anomalies in Trump situation room photo spark online conspiracy theories it was staged
In 2011, 10 years after the terrorist attacks in New York which destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, the architect of the hijackings, Osama bin Laden, was killed by US special forces in a raid in Pakistan. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey The US Navy Seals carrying out the raid relayed live…
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a brutal tyrant but he had no real answer to the crumbling of his caliphate
Click:numerical control machine The death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Isis and the self-declared caliph of Islamic State, will be a serious, though not terminal, blow to the ferocious jihadi movement he has headed since 2010. The place where he was finally located – in the Barisha area north of Idlib city in…
Syria Kurds expect IS revenge attacks after Baghdadi death
Qamishli (Syria) (AFP) – Syria’s Kurdish forces said they expected revenge attacks by the Islamic State group following the US announcement Sunday that the jihadist organisation’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed. “Sleeper cells will seek revenge for Baghdadi’s death,” Mazloum Abdi, the top commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces — the de facto…
Pete Buttigieg may be stealing some of Joe Biden's donors
Financial anxiety is creeping into former Vice President Joe Biden’s Democratic presidential campaign, The New York Times reports. In a confidential memo this week, Biden’s campaign manager Greg Schultz, asked top donors to “dig deep” to help alleviate some of the struggles. The Biden campaign is spending more than it’s taking in and only has…
Being the frontrunner takes its toll: Joe Biden is more disliked than Bernie Sanders
AP Photo/Jessica Hill Former Vice President Joe Biden’s nomination would be more unsatisfactory among Democratic primary voters than if fellow 2020 candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders won the primary, according to recent Insider polling. While 27% of likely Democratic voters would be unsatisfied with a Biden nomination, 21% would be dissatisfied with a Sanders win, and…
Japan: A Future Nuclear Weapons Superpower?
Key point: Tokyo could get the bomb if it needed to and that would be scary for its neighbors. It is perhaps China’s greatest nightmare: a nuclear-armed Japan. Permanently anchored off the Asian mainland, bristling with nuclear weapons, a nuclear Japan would make China’s security situation much more complex than it is now, and force China…