THIRTY-nine migrants found dead in the back of a lorry in Essex were all Chinese nationals, it has been reported. Dad-to-be Maurice 'Mo'  Robinson, 25, is being quizzed on suspicion of murder after he picked the trailer packed with bodies up from Purfleet in Essex yesterday. The grisly discovery is Britain's biggest-ever mass murder probes after the bodies were found […]

Transit union members threatened to “tar and feather” MTA Chairman Pat Foye on Wednesday, while beefing with the agency amid tense contract negotiations. At the MTA’s monthly board meeting, Transport Workers Union Local 100 surface division chief J.P. Patafio asked fellow union members in the audience what they’d do if Foye shows up to a planned rally next week. “We’ll […]

BRITS today are far more liberal than a generation ago – with views on drugs, abortion and homosexuality transforming, research today reveals. Just 13 per cent of Brits now think gay relationships are wrong, down from 40 per cent in 1989. The proportion who thinks ‘soft drug’ use is immoral has halved from 60 per cent to 29 per cent, […]

A 25-year-old driver today arrested on suspicion of murder after 39 bodies were found in his lorry in Essex had only just picked up the trailer from a port. Mo Robinson, from Northern Ireland, was arrested in one of Britain's biggest-ever mass murder probes after the grisly discovery in Grays, Essex at 1.40am today. He had picked the trailer from […]

When US government or military officials need real privacy — like during the closed-door hearings for the impeachment inquiry against President Trump — they head to a highly secure room known as a “Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility,” or SCIF. A SCIF “guards against electronic surveillance and suppresses data leakage of sensitive security and military information,” according to SCIF Global Technologies […]

UNITED NATIONS — Food insecurity in North Korea “is at an alarming level,” with nearly half the population — 11 million people — undernourished, the UN independent investigator on human rights in the country said Tuesday. Tomas Ojea Quintana told the General Assembly’s human rights committee that 140,000 children are estimated to be suffering from “undernutrition,” including 30,000 who “face […]

London: A shipping container found with 39 bodies inside in Essex near London on Wednesday had just crossed the English Channel from Zeebrugge in Belgium, police say. The container was picked up from a Thames port by a truck that had arrived from Northern Ireland, whose 25 year-old driver, identified as Mo Robinson, was in custody on suspicion of murder. […]

The New Zealand Defense Force has released new gender-neutral guidelines around grooming and appearance for Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) personnel. The new rules make equal what male and female service members can now wear while they serve in the navy and expand upon the kinds of jewelry, cosmetics, and hair that will now be allowed to be worn by […]

US troops who crossed into Iraq after withdrawing from northern Syria will leave the country within four weeks, says Baghdad official after meeting Defense Secretary Mark Esper Defense Secretary Mark Esper is in Baghdad to discuss US military in the region He met with Iraqi Defense Minister Najah al-Shammari over US troop withdrawal Shammari aid American forces leaving Syria to Iraq […]

Iranian beauty queen begs the Philippines for asylum over fears for her life after Tehran demanded her extradition for an ‘assault’ as she dismisses the claims as a ‘big lie’ Bahareh Zare Bahari, 31, has been detained at Ninoy Aquino airport for six days Iran issued an Interpol Red Notice for her on an assault and battery charge  Ms Bahari […]