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    A British hacker has admitted stealing hundreds of online accounts from a US military communications system and then boasting online of how he controlled US satellites. Sean Caffrey accessed and stole details of more than 800 users of a US Department of Defence satellite system as well as about 30,000 satellite phones. The 25-year-old from Sutton Coldfield was seized two years ago in a joint investigation with British police. His attack took place in June 2014 and he made anonymous postings of screenshots taken of the dashboard used to control the database, boasting We’re in your bases, we control your satellites. But he was tracked down and arrested nine months later after detectives from the UK’s National Crime Agency traced the attack to his internet connection. Detecti...

    A warship lying in the waters off the Kent coast is packed with so much explosives that it could cause a TSUNAMI if they were to go off. The SS Richard Montgomery resides at the bottom of the Thames Estuary after it sunk off Sheerness while delivering thousands of tonnes of munitions to France. Some of the bombs on board the World War Two shipwreck were later salvaged but more than 1,400 tonnes of live ammunition are still on board. The SS Richard Montgomery sunk off the Kent coast in 1944 (YouTube) An explosion could cause major damage to surrounding areas (Wikipedia) An explosion could cause a mini tsunami according to experts that some claim could destroy the nearby port of Sheerness. A BBC report in 1970 estimated the resulting tidal wave could be as high as 16ft, alth...

    Theresa May is to be told the EU will take a year to draft a new mandate for its chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, effectively killing the Brexit negotiations, if she insists on discussing a future trade relationship at the same time as the UK’s divorce bill. In a sign of growing impatience with the shambolic state of the British side of the talks, senior EU sources said that if London insisted on talking about a free trade deal before the issues of its divorce bill, citizens rights and the border in Ireland were sufficiently resolved, it would be met with a blunt response. If they don’t accept the phased negotiations then we will take a year to draw up a new set of negotiating guidelines for Barnier, one senior EU diplomat said, adding that the EU could not understand Bri...

    New photos of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi have been released by police as they continue to piece together his final days. Greater Manchester Police say they now have a deep understanding of the attacker's movements before he detonated a bomb at the end of a sold-out Ariana Grande concert on 22 May. Detective Chief Superintendent Russ Jackson confirmed 29 house searches have been conducted over the past three weeks and evidence of explosive material has been found at several locations with links to Abedi. Other The blue and red barrels were stored in the white Nissan Micra Officers are appealing for information about red and blue barrels which were stored in a Nissan Micra that Abedi had made repeated trips to before his attack. A search is also continuing at a lan...

    In a withering attack on Theresa May who sacked him as chancellor on her arrival in Downing Street last year, Mr Osborne said it was simply a question of how long she is going to remain on death row. Theresa May and her husband Philip arrive at St Andrew's Church in Sonning, Berkshire He predicted she could be out of office as early as the middle of next week. His criticism came as the PM, badly weakened by the loss of her majority in the election, moved to shore up her precarious position. However, this was dealt an early blow after Downing Street mistakenly announcing a deal had been reached with the Democratic Unionists to prop up Mrs May's minority Tory government. Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn, buoyed by Labour's showing at the polls, said it was quite possible there would...

    Labour is now ahead of the Tories for the first time since Jeremy Corbyn became leader, a new poll has found. Mr Corbyn’s party is now polling at 45 per cent, six points ahead of the Tories who are lagging behind on 39 per cent. The Survation poll, conducted for the Mail on Sunday, shows a swing of eight points in Labour’s favour since the general election on 8 June. Who could replace May if she resigns? Labour has now overtaken the Tories despite being more than 20 points behind when Theresa May first called for a general election. The news comes as Ms May is expected to enter a confidence and supply” arrangement with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in an attempt to shore up her position as Prime Minister. The Tories fell short of a majority in the general election, l...

    Theresa May's bid to do a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party to save her Premiership has been plunged into uncertainty. In a move that could jeopardise her frantic attempts to remain as Prime Minister, the DUP is accusing Downing Street of announcing a deal on its MPs voting with the Tories in the Commons before an agreement has been reached. After the PM sent her Chief Whip Gavin Williamson to Belfast to negotiate a deal to keep the Conservatives in power, No. 10 said the DUP had agreed to the principles of an outline agreement. But in a dramatic twist just before midnight on Sunday, Sky sources said No. 10's account of the talks had been issued in error and the DUP had not yet reached any agreement with the Tories. Jeremy Corbyn's performance at the polls was impres...

    The most high-profile Cabinet ministers in Theresa May's administration are keeping their jobs, Downing Street has said. They are: Chancellor of the Exchequer - Philip Hammond Dubbed 'Spreadsheet Phil', Mr Hammond was seen as a safe pair of hands when he was first appointed to head the Treasury last year. But hardline Brexiteers in the Tory party have grown wary. Mr Hammond, a Remainer, could be pushing for a softer exit from the EU at the top of Government. His credibility was partly eroded after his first Budget ended in a shambles in March, forcing the Chancellor to climb down on a tax hike for self-employed workers. Tensions with the Prime Minister's team were heightened further when he hinted the Tories would ditch their triple tax lock in the 2017 manifesto, before i...

    Jeremy Corbyn was just 2,227 votes away from having the chance to become Prime Minister in the general election, an analysis of marginal seats has revealed. If the Labour leader had won seven seats narrowly taken by the Conservatives, he would have had the opportunity to form a progressive alliance with all other smaller parties, barring the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). The Labour Party has said it was prepared to form a coalition government, with Mr Corbyn announcing: We are ready to serve. With seven more seats going to Mr Corbyn, a coalition of Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish National Party (SNP), Plaid Cymru, the Green Party and one independent MP in the House of Commons would have held 321 seats enough to block Theresa May and for Mr Corbyn to enter nu...

    Almost 300,000 people sign petition against the Tory DUP deal in just 12 hours An online petition demanding that the Conservatives scrap plans to form a government with DUP support, gained nearly 300,000 signatures in just 12 hours. Signed by 278,843 people at the time of writing, it also calls for Theresa May to resign after she lost her parliamentary majority. Speaking outside No 10 after the result became clear, the prime minister said she would seek to form a minority government with a confidence and supply agreement with the Northern Irish party. It would mean they would vote with the government on a case by case basis. But the party is controversial for many of its illiberal stances on LGBT rights, abortion and climate change as well as its alleged links with unionis...