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Residents and businesses around Borough Market have been told that the police operation to examine the scene of last week's terrorist attack is likely to continue till Sunday night.

In a statement issued at 4pm on Thursday, Scotland Yard said: "We understand that the police cordons in place in Southwark following the terror attack in London Bridge have had a huge impact on local residents and businesses. We are working as quickly as possible so that the inner cordon can be lifted and things can start to return to normal following the tragic events of last Saturday.

"This is a unique, complex investigation, and officers are working around the clock to investigate the circumstances surrounding the attack. This involves close inspection of the crime scene which spans a very large area. This scene contains important evidence, and it is important that we carry out a thorough investigation to ensure that no evidence is lost or missed. We anticipate our work at the scene to be completed by Sunday evening.

"A mobile police station has been placed on Southwark Street at the junction with Redcross Way for any police queries. Access to businesses for cleansing is being facilitated by Met officers.

"We would like to thank people who live and work in the affected area for their patience, hospitality and goodwill during what is a very difficult time for them and for London as a whole."

Borough Market has said that it will not reopen until next week.

Some businesses just outside the cordon including 'O ver, Leon and Bill's Restaurant have reopened.

Others including The Mudlark pub will resume trading on Friday.

Southwark Cathedral remains closed whilst repairs are carried out to make good damage caused when police forced their way in to search the building during the counter-terrorism operation.

We are posting regular updates on the situation at London Bridge on our Twitter account at http://twitter.com/se1 .

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After the latest terrorist attack in Britain at least as of this writing Prime Minister Theresa May bravely announced, Enough is enough!

What is the point of these macho proclamations after every terrorist attack? Nothing will be done to stop the next attack. Political correctness prohibits us from doing anything that might stop it.

Poland doesnt admit Muslims: It has no terrorism. Japan doesnt admit Muslims: It has no terrorism. The United Kingdom and the United States used to have very few Muslims: They used to have almost no terrorism. (One notable exception was chosen as the National Freedom Hero in this years Puerto Rican parade in New York!)

Notwithstanding the lovely Muslim shopkeeper who wouldnt hurt a fly, everyone knows that with every tranche of peace-loving Muslims we bring in, were also getting some number of stone-cold killers.

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair dumped millions of Third World Muslims on Britain to force multiculturalism on the country. Now Britons are living with the result. Since the 9/11 attack, every U.S. president has done the same. President Bush admitted Muslim immigrants at a faster pace after 9/11 than we had been doing before 9/11.

Whatever the 9/11 attackers intended to accomplish, I bet they didnt expect that.

Now we cant get rid of them. Under the rules of political correctness, Western countries are prohibited from even pausing our breakneck importation of Muslims, much less sending the recent arrivals home.

In defense of the poor saps responding to every terrorist attack with flowers, candles and hashtags, these are people who have no ability to do anything else. Western leaders are in full possession of the tools to end Islamic terrorism in their own countries, just as their forebears once ended Nazi Stormtroopers.

Unable to summon the backbone to defeat the current enemy, the West is stuck constantly reliving that glorious time when they whipped the Nazis. In almost every Western country except the one with an increasingly beleaguered First Amendment its against the law to deny the Holocaust.

Are we really worried about a resurgence of Nazism? Isnt Islamic terrorism a little higher on our immediate problems list? How about making it illegal to make statements in support of ISIS, al-Qaida, female genital mutilation, Sharia law or any act of terrorism?

The country with a First Amendment cant do that the most that amendment allows us to do is ban conservative speakers from every college campus in the nation.

But if our elected representatives really cared about stopping the next terrorist attack, instead of merely watching those on the watch list, theyd deport them.

To this day, we have a whole office at the Department of Justice dedicated to finding and deporting Nazis even without proof they personally committed crimes against Jews. But we cant manage to deport hearty young Muslims who post love notes to ISIS on their Facebook pages.

If the Clinton administration had merely enforced laws on the books against an Afghani immigrant, Mir Seddique Mateen, and excluded him based on his arm-length list of terrorist affiliations, his son Omar wouldnt have been around to slaughter 49 people at an Orlando nightclub last year.

If Secretary of State John Kerry, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson or anyone else in our vaunted immigration vetting system had done his job, Pakistani Tashfeen Malik never would have been admitted to this country to commit mass murder in San Bernardino a year after she arrived. Before being warmly welcomed by the U.S., Maliks social media posts were bristling with hatred of America and enthusiasm for jihad.

Were already paying a battery of FBI agents to follow every Muslim refugee around the country. When they find out that one of them lists his hobby as jihad, we need them to stop watching and start deporting.

Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, the rest of the useless GOP and obviously every Democrat have the blood of the next terrorist attack on their hands if they dont make crystal clear that admiring remarks about Islamic terrorism is a deportable act.

But they wont do it. Thats not who we are, as Ryan famously said.

True, most Muslims are peaceful. Guess what? Most Nazis were peaceful! We didnt knock ourselves out to admit as many of them as we could, screening out only the Nazis convicted of mass murder.

Before we were even formally involved in World War II, the FBI was all over the German American Bund. No one worried about upsetting our German neighbors. (Perhaps because they knew these were Germans and wouldnt start bombing things and shooting people.)

But today, our official position is: Lets choose love so as not to scare our Muslim neighbors. Isnt that precisely what we want to do? Facing an immobile government, two British men by which I mean British men were sentenced to PRISON for putting bacon on a mosque in Bristol last year. One died in prison just after Christmas, an ancient religious holiday recently replaced by Ramadan.

If we cant look askance at Muslims without committing a hate crime, cant we at least stop admitting ever more refugees, some percentage of whom are going to be terrorists and 100 percent of whom will consume massive amounts of government resources?

No, thats not who we are.

Until any Western leader is willing to reduce the number of Muslims in our midst, could they spare us the big talk? We surrender would at least have the virtue of honesty.

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Continuing her furious campaign of pointless provocation, right-wing pundit Ann Coulter has branded the New York Police Department little girls on Twitter. The crass observation came in response to an attempted terrorist attack at the Notre Dame Cathedral, in the heart of Paris, on Tuesday.

The suspect in that attack, an Algerian, apparently shouted, This is for Syria! as he assailed police officers with a hammer. He was wounded. None of the hundreds of visitors atthe iconic Paris landmark were injured.

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Coulter quickly chose to politicize the foiled assault, as many on the right(including President Donald J. Trump himself)have done withSaturdays terror attack in London.

If Coulter meant that the NYPD had recently hired women, she is correct: Though once a strictly male preserve, the nations largest police force is today 35 percentfemale, with 17 percentof its uniformed officers women. Ethnic diversity has increased as well, with about half of the department composed of nonwhites.

One of the little girls hired by the NYPD was Feris Jones, who on a fall day in 2010 was at a hair salon in Brooklyn when a burglar burst in, brandishing a gun and demanding money. The New York Daily News reported on what ensued:

Jones, 50, who gets her hair done at the salon about once a month, rose from her chair, identified herself as a cop and told [the intruder] to drop his weapon.

That's when he opened fire, witnesses said....Jones stood her ground, coolly pulled a gun from her waistband and shot at Cox twice.

Of course, Coulter wasnt tweeting about demographics. Rather, she appears to think the New York Police Department is somehow soft on terrorists and would rather read a maniacal killer his Miranda rights than take him down.

In fact, the NYPD routinely sends out its heavily-armed Hercules teams to sensitive locations around the city. The law enforcement website PoliceOne described them as a model for counterterrorism at odds with the timid department Coulter depicted:

These small teams arrive in unmarked vehicles, sheathed in armor-plated vests, carrying submachine guns. The Hercules team also can summon air and sea support. The purpose of the team is to intimidate and to very publicly mount a show of force, as well as provide an immediate effective fighting force if challenged by terrorists.

If anything, the NYPD recently has faced charges of excessive force, in particular when it comes to policing communities of color. And under Commissioner Ray Kelly, it conducted extensive surveillance of Muslim neighborhoods around the city.

A query to the NYPD about Coulters depiction of the departmentwas not immediately answered.

Coulter is not the first right-winger to take an inexplicable, ill-advised potshot at the NYPD in recent months. Back in April, Attorney General Jeff Sessions called New York soft on crime.

Twenty-three officers died rescuing people from the World Trade Center on 9/11. Another 130 have died because of the carcinogenic particulates they inhaled while working at Ground Zero.

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BRUSSELS European Union member states push back against more centralized control of automotive type approvals by the trade blocs executive branch, the European Commission, in a recent vote here.

The EU Council of Ministers, which represents EU governments, instead approved a general approach of principles, which would beef up cooperation between national authorities but not give the EC more power over type approval, defined as confirmation that a vehicle meets specified performance standards.

The move likely will pit the Council against the EC and particularly lawmakers in the European Parliament who want tougher centralized controls in the wake of the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal. Regulators at the national level have been accused of turning a blind eye to type-approval breaches by automakers.

It also promises a stormy road ahead for negotiations between the three EU institutions on the text of new type-approval regulations. Both the Council and Parliament must approve a final system or else the proposal will fail and the existing system will stay in force.

Rather than the EC overseeing national type approvals, the Council wants the establishment of a forum an inter-regulatory body tasked with exchanging information on enforcement. This would be composed of national type-approval and market-surveillance authorities.

A spokesperson for the ACEA, the European automakers group, backs the idea, telling WardsAuto a forum has the potential to bring uniform interpretations to the system and increase EU oversight on type approval.

The Council also wants to institute peer-review audits of national type-approval authorities at least once every five years. However, type-approval authorities that farm out all their technical services work to organizations with accreditation for following internationally recognized standards would be exempted from such reviews. National accreditation bodies would be involved in assessing technical services through joint teams.

Technical services also would be strengthened under the Council plan with new powers to control automakers, including spot checks. The ACEA spokesperson says, The strict criteria for technical services, based on international standards and applied by accredited bodies, could also further improve the quality of vehicle testing.

The Council system still would enable the EC to play a role in market surveillance, carrying out spot checks on cars to verify compliance, and it would be allowed to flag and react to irregularities. Member states also would be involved in such responses.

Before the Council of Ministers vote, Elzbieta Bienkowska, the EUs internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and SMEs Commissioner, pointed out three key areas where the EC and the European Parliament wanted more ambition, starting with checks on new car models. The Parliament wanted one in 20 models on the road checked, but the Council supports checks on at least one in every 50,000 new vehicles registered in each EU country.

The Council also opposes European Parliament-backed moves to impose automatic expiration of type approvals and what Parliament members regard as proposed better regulation of actual carbon-dioxide emissions, Bienkowska says.

Another bugbear is that the Council wants to restrict the ECs right to fine automakers 30,000 ($33,700) per car found in violation of type-approval laws, which is in the Parliaments proposal, if a member state already has punished an automaker. Bienkowska asks, How can we possibly deliver that single market if the same offense by a manufacturer will be punished 28 or 27 different ways?

But the fact that Malta, which holds the EUs rotating Council presidency, was able to broker the deal at all between very different national positions is winning widespread praise. This paves the way for governments, the European Parliament and the European Commission to start their negotiations with a view to reaching a final agreement by the end of the year, the ACEA

spokesperson says.

Just days before the meeting of the Council, it had looked as if the EUs biggest member state, Germany, would reject the deal. But Maltas economy minister, Chris Cardona, urged his colleagues to support the compromise, saying any further changes would upset the just balance in negotiations.

Bienkowska also urged ministers to back the text, saying it could be fine-tuned later. Almost two years into the emissions scandal, we continue to hear of new allegations, revelations and investigations, she told the Council. It will never finish if we do not have in Europe a new, robust system.

An EU official tells WardsAuto, In spite of misgivings, the German delegation supported the compromise text. But Germanys economic-affairs minister, Matthias Maching, stresses he wants further amendments in the upcoming negotiations.

Critically, Germany is pushing for clear criteria for a waiver from the EUs ban on the emissions-defeat devices at the heart of Dieselgate. Germany also wants formation of an EU clearinghouse system able to rule on disputes regarding type approval between member states.

Environmental and consumer campaigners are blaming German influence for what they regard as the Councils less-than-satisfactory approach.

Monique Goyens, director general of the European Consumer Organization, says, Clearly under pressure from Germany, (member states) have agreed on a package of half-baked measures that risk turning the entire reform into a paper tiger. Goyens further is unhappy that ministers have turned a blind eye to conflicts of interest in car testing by allowing the continuation of direct payments between car makers and test laboratories.

Bas Eickhout, a Dutch Green Party member of Parliament, says the council watered down the proposal and adds, Its now up to the Commission and the Parliament to bring back the necessary checks and balances during the (negotiations) to avoid the Dieselgate scandal happening all over again.

The parliamentarian responsible for piloting the measure through European Parliament votes, British Conservative MEP Daniel Dalton, says, Clearly there are differences between the two positions, but this is normal in the legislative process.

The details can and will be worked out. What is most important, though, is that there is recognition on both sides that there must be improvements made throughout the type-approval process.

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