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Theft from convenience stores in the U.K. reached record levels last year, according to a trade body, blaming criminal gangs and a cost-of-living crisis.

The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS), which represents 48,000 stores, said there were more than 1.1 million incidents in the last 12 months.

British police have charged a driver with murder after finding a lorry driven from Bulgaria containing 39 dead bodies.

Essex Police apprehended the 25-year-old driver from Northern Ireland in an industrial park in Grays, Essex County, in the east of England, and said he had driven the lorry from Bulgaria.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Photo: EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga.

RT is reporting that Assange was arrested by UK police immediately after leaving the embassy.

Ecuador's president decided to abolish the previously approved asylum, which for six years protected the founder of the whistleblowing website from arrest.
Assange fell out with Ecuadorr's authorities after WikiLeaks allegedly "interfered in Ecuador's affairs."

According to UK government sources, twice as many Albanians have been caught as stowaways at UK ports than any other nationality.
Approximately 981 Albanian illegal immigrants were arrested at UK ports from 2008 until mid-2016.
This information was released to the newspaper The Guardian by the Home Office statistics under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act.

A UK police team probing the more than two-decade old disappearance of a British toddler on the Greek island of Kos said Monday the boy was likely killed in an accident.

However, investigators have not found the body of Ben Needham - who was 21 months old when he vanished near a farmhouse where his family was staying in July 1991 - and they said the investigation is continuing.