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Police officers in white forensic suits could be seen working by the truck

UK Police Say 39 Found Dead In Truck Were Chinese

British police said that 39 people found dead in a truck near London are believed to be Chinese nationals, in a case that has triggered national outrage over the people trafficking business.Emergency workers discovered the bodies early Wednesday inside the refrigerated container of a truck parked in an industrial area east of London, shortly after it had arrived on a ferry from Belgium.Police are conducting the country's largest murder probe in more than a decade into what Prime Minister Boris Johnson described as an "unimaginable tragedy".
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"You can imagine there are going to be a lot of countries to step up to the plate at a level that would say 'OK, that warrants having an astronaut on the surface of the Moon,'" NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said

Invest In Artemis To Get A Ride To Moon: US

"You can imagine there are going to be a lot of countries to step up to the plate at a level that would say 'OK, that warrants having an astronaut on the surface of the Moon,'" NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said
American Airlines now expects the prolonged grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX to cut pre-tax profits by $540 million, much higher than previously estimated, while Southwest saysthe hit so far this year amounts to $435 million

American Airlines Earnings Rise Despite Boeing MAX Hit

American Airlines now expects the prolonged grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX to cut pre-tax profits by $540 million, much higher than previously estimated, while Southwest saysthe hit so far this year amounts to $435 million
Protesters have cut major highways across Lebanon, crippling the capital Beirut and other cities

President Offers To Meet Protesters Paralysing Lebanon

Lebanon's president offered Thursday to meet the protesters whose week-old mobilisation to demand a complete overhaul of the political system has brought the country to a standstill.But Michel Aoun's first speech since the start of the unprecedented protest movement was met with disdain by demonstrators who see him and the entire political class as part of the problem, not the solution.Sparked on October 17 by a proposed tax on free calls made through messaging apps such as WhatsApp, the protests have morphed into a cross-sectarian street mobilisation against a political system seen as corrupt and broken.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has refused to condemn Turkey, saying it has "legitimate security concerns" along its border with Syria

NATO Hammers Turkey On Syria Operation

NATO defence ministers Thursday slammed Turkey for its military operation in Syria conducted with Russia's help, but recognised there was little they could do to sanction their strategically important ally.The first day of a two-day meeting of the ministers in Brussels was dominated by the issue, with Turkey isolated among the 29 member states because of its incursion against Kurdish fighters it considers "terrorists" but who are key in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria.

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