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Migrant deaths: Britain faces exclusion from elite EU policing unit Brexit warning over anti-trafficking body comes as lorry driver is charged with manslaughterThe UK faces being excluded from Europe’s anti-trafficking unit after Brexit, senior MPs and experts warned last night. The unit is coordinating international investigations into the deaths of 39 people whose bodies were found in the back of a lorry in Essex last week.The warning came as on Saturday the driver of the truck, Maurice Robinson, was charged with 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people over the deaths in Grays. The 25-year-old will appear at Chelmsford magistrates court tomorrow, where he will also face 39 counts of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration and money laundering. Continue readi...

Lib Dems offer Johnson route to December election Amendment to Fixed-Term Parliaments Act could prevent Brexit deal coming back to CommonsBoris Johnson has been offered a route to securing the pre-Christmas election that he has been seeking, through a plan that would only require the support of a simple majority of MPs.With most Labour MPs still against the idea of a snap election, the prime minister looks set to lose his bid to secure a December poll on Monday in a vote that requires the backing of two-thirds of MPs. Other parties are also opposing an election until the EU has granted a three-month Brexit delay, although the DUP hinted on Saturday it could back the move. Continue reading... Go to Source

England stride past All Blacks towards rugby’s greatest prize It’s four years since they took a hiding at their home World Cup. Now, after a glorious triumph in Yokohama, redemption beckonsOnly four years after they were humiliated at their own tournament, England strode with uncommon authority to next weekend’s Rugby World Cup final in Japan, dispatching the All Blacks, no less, as if they were no more than the next hurdle that needed clearing.When New Zealand became world champions for the third time in London in 2015, they were hailed without argument as the “most dominant team in the history of the world”, the very phrase one of their own camp had scrawled on a whiteboard in their team room two years earlier. In Yokohama, England, so far from their troubled homeland, harnessed...

Essex lorry deaths: driver charged with 39 counts of manslaughter Mo Robinson, 25, has also been charged with human trafficking and money launderingThe driver of the lorry that contained 39 dead migrants has been charged with manslaughter and human trafficking.Maurice Robinson, 25, from Co Armagh in Northern Ireland, faces 39 counts of manslaughter, conspiracy to traffic people, conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration and money laundering, Essex police said on Saturday. Continue reading... Go to Source

DUP says Johnson's Brexit deal would take Northern Ireland in 'wrong direction' Arlene Foster highlights importance of party’s 10 parliamentary votes in propping up governmentThe Democratic Unionist party leader has demanded honesty from the government on Brexit as she vows to keep opposing the current deal until changes are made.Arlene Foster told her party conference on Saturday afternoon the current withdrawal agreement would take Northern Ireland in the “wrong direction”. Continue reading... Go to Source

Volunteers join search for UK woman missing on Cambodian island Amelia Bambridge, 21, from Sussex, was last seen in early hours of Thursday at beach party on Koh RongPolice and volunteers in Cambodia are searching for a missing British woman last seen by friends in the early hours of Thursday at a beach party on the island of Koh Rong.Amelia Bambridge, 21, from Worthing in Sussex, went to a party on Wednesday at Police Beach, which is popular with backpackers and located off the south-west coast of the South-East Asian country. Her handbag, containing her phone and bank cards, was found on the beach on Thursday but she has not been seen since the event. Continue reading... Go to Source

Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’ Eco groups and global treaty blamed for delay in supply of vitamin-A enriched Golden RiceStifling international regulations have been blamed for delaying the approval of a food that could have helped save millions of lives this century. The claim is made in a new investigation of the controversy surrounding the development of Golden Rice by a team of international scientists.Golden Rice is a form of normal white rice that has been genetically modified to provide vitamin A to counter blindness and other diseases in children in the developing world. It was developed two decades ago but is still struggling to gain approval in most nations. Continue reading... Go to Source

Mitt Romney: Trump's best staff decision was 'not choosing me' Utah senator and Trump critic tells the New York Times he wouldn’t have lasted as long as Rex Tillerson‘Disorder and chaos’: Trump mounts furious impeachment fightThe best personnel decision Donald Trump has made, Mitt Romney said in an interview published on Saturday, “was not choosing me”.After winning the White House in 2016. Trump toyed with the idea – and in doing so rather cruelly toyed with the man – of appointing Romney secretary of state. Continue reading... Go to Source

Tories deny plan to compromise workers' rights after Brexit Business minister defends Johnson after Labour says PM misled parliament with his plan for exiting the EUThe government has denied it has misled parliament and that it is seeking to tear up provisions for workers’ rights after Brexit.The business minister Kwasi Kwarteng admitted on Saturday that it would be very difficult for Britain to leave the European Union next week, but he dismissed reports employees’ rights would be slashed after Brexit as “way exaggerated”. Continue reading... Go to Source

More Vietnamese families fear relatives among Essex lorry dead Hanoi asks Vietnamese embassy in London to collaborate with police to help identify victimsMore Vietnamese families have come forward with information that their relatives may be among the 39 people found dead in the back of a container truck in Essex.Police had initially said they believed the victims were Chinese but have acknowledged that this is a “developing picture” and the nationality of the victims have not been confirmed. Continue reading... Go to Source

England dethrone New Zealand to reach Rugby World Cup final • All Blacks beaten at World Cup for first time in 12 years• Tuilagi’s second-minute try sets tone for EnglandNot since the 2003 Rugby World Cup has English rugby enjoyed a more stunning or significant moment. The national team are into their first final for 12 years but the manner in which Eddie Jones’s side left New Zealand strewn on the canvas was as striking as the 19-7 scoreline. The All Blacks’ dreams of becoming the first team to win three consecutive Webb Ellis Cups were not so much dashed as smashed.As well as delivering New Zealand’s first loss in 19 World Cup matches dating back to the 2007 quarter-finals, this was the equal of any England performance in modern times. The All Blacks, so dominant in the tourname...

Theresa May inflexible, introverted and surly, biography claims Anthony Seldon’s book, May at 10, says PM ‘began to crumble’ in 2017 election campaignTheresa May was “surly” and “not particularly pleasant” during the Tories’ ill-fated general election campaign in 2017, her former joint chief of staff has claimed.Fiona Hill was forced to become the former prime minister’s full-time minder after she “began to crumble” amid mounting criticism, according to a new biography, which says May insisted that she did not want the presidential-style campaign to be focused on her. Continue reading... Go to Source

Facebook fact checkers did not know they could vet adverts Many third-party contractors learned of new policy from Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress Many of Facebook’s third-party fact checkers have still not been told that the company now expects them to vet adverts as well as user content for misinformation – though, controversially, not political adverts.Some fact checkers only found out that they should be vetting paid adverts after Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg described the new policyin Congress on Wednesday. Continue reading... Go to Source