Areas of Finchley Central in North London were closed down after a suspicious car was found parked next to the building that houses the Jewish Agency for Israel.

London Metropolitan Police were called to reports of a "suspicious vehicle" on Ballard Lane in Finchley around 10am GMT.

A cordon was set up in order to keep members of the public at a distance, workers were evacuated from nearby buildings and the road was blocked in all directions.

Finchley Central tube station, on the Northern Line, was also closed off for a "security check," according to Transport for London (TFL).

Witnesses have taken photos of police and fire crews investigating the scene.

The CEO of 1st In SEO says he will not do business with anyone who voted for Donald Trump, registered Republicans or anything that supports the GOP.

CEO Mathew Blanchfield debates with with FOX News' Tucker Carlson...and you will not believe the level of stupidity that has infected so many liberal left minds. Watch the video in disbelief.

Dating apps must do more to protect their users' safety, Scotland Yard has warned, as police chiefs are probed over their failure to stop Grindr serial killer Stephen Port, amid fears he may have murdered more men.

The National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) said tech firms need to do more to prevent their users becoming victims of sexual predators after 41-year-old chef Port was found guilty on Wednesday of raping and murdering four men he met on dating apps, including Grindr and Gaydar.

Port will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday for the rape, sexual assault and murder of the four men in his London flat.

Following the guilty verdict, police chiefs are also urging app developers to do more to protect their users from violence.

Police lead for LGBT issues at the NPCC, Chief Constable Jane Sawyers, told the BBC the companies "could do more to prevent the offenses in the first place."

A truck bomb at a gas station has killed at least 80 people south of Baghdad, Iraq, according to authorities cited by Reuters. The attack, claimed by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), likely targeted Iranian Shiite pilgrims.

At least 32 others were injured by the explosion, Iraqi officials told AP.

The blast, which took place in the village of Shomali, 120km southeast of the capital Baghdad, ripped through a gas station at which seven buses carrying pilgrims were parked.

"At least seven buses with pilgrims were inside the petrol station at the time," a police officer told AFP.

This summer families of atom bomb test veterans who have died of cancer took the UK government to the High Court for its failure to compensate them, writes Chris Busby. Also on trial was the 'official' radiation risk model, which understates the true health hazards of internal exposures by a factor of 1,000. But 17 weeks after the case, litigants and veterans are still awaiting judgment.

It usually takes no more than a few weeks for the High Court to deliver its judgments, six weeks at the most - and that's only in long and complex cases. Most often litigants get their judgment within a week or so.

But very much not in the case of Nuclear Bomb Test Veterans versus Secretary of State for Defence. We were in Court 25 of the Royal Courts of Justice in London for three weeks from 13th June. I was presenting the veterans' case.

Seventeen weeks have now passed since the case finished, yet the Judge, the distinguished QC Sir Nicholas Blake, has still not delivered his Decision. I can only wonder: why not?

Sir Nicholas never quite went out of his way to be kind to me, but his handling of the case was fair and I very much hope that the same fate has not befallen him, as befell a previous judge presiding over our case at an earlier stage of its slow progress through the court system.

A crowd of 'Brexiteers' gathered outside the British parliament to urge a speedy exit from the European Union. Demonstrators accused the government of using loopholes to prevent the departure from taking place.

The Wednesday protest reportedly drew around 200 people, with demonstrators shouting "What do we want? Brexit! When do we want it? Now!" during the event.

Others held banners including slogans such as "Hard Brexit Now" and "Theresa May, don't delay. We want Brexit right away."

The demonstrators said they're frustrated with the British government, as very little has been done to begin the exit process since the June 23 vote to leave the European Union.

The 2016 election results for three states are in doubt, and an effort led by Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein is raising millions of dollars for a vote recount.

The Green Party has a fundraising goal of more than $2 million to challenge the vote counts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, states where President-elect Donald Trump has been declared the winner or, in the case of Michigan, where he is leading an ongoing count.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, has cultivated relationships with China's leaders, including President Xi Jinping. He has paid multiple visits to the country to meet its top internet executives. He has made an effort to learn Mandarin.

Inside Facebook, the work to enter China runs far deeper.

The social network has quietly developed software to suppress posts from appearing in people's news feeds in specific geographic areas, according to three current and former Facebook employees, who asked for anonymity because the tool is confidential. The feature was created to help Facebook get into China, a market where the social network has been blocked, these people said. Mr. Zuckerberg has supported and defended the effort, the people added.

Facebook has restricted content in other countries before, such as Pakistan, Russia and Turkey, in keeping with the typical practice of American internet companies that generally comply with government requests to block certain content after it is posted. Facebook blocked roughly 55,000 pieces of content in about 20 countries between July 2015 and December 2015, for example. But the new feature takes that a step further by preventing content from appearing in feeds in China in the first place.

A recent survey found that over 54% of Americans do not believe the official government narrative of September 11th.

The establishment has long used the term "conspiracy theory" to discredit any idea in the public sphere that has anti-establishment leanings or runs counter to the government's narrative regarding an event or situation. In 1967, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) wrote a dispatch which coined the term to discredit those Americans who were not content with the findings of the Warren Commission following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The dispatch, which was obtained by the New York Times in 1976, was part of the CIA's Clandestine Services (CS) unit and was classified as "psychological operations." The document also lays out the exact arguments used by the establishment for years to discredit certain theories such as: claiming that eyewitness testimony is unreliable, claiming that it's irresponsible to speculate, claiming its impossible for so many people to keep quiet about large conspiracies, claiming conspiracy theorists are politically or financially motivated in the promotion of these theories and refocusing attention on "official" reports.

Despite the CIA's best efforts, the belief in conspiracy theories remains alive and well in the United States and many once-ridiculed conspiracies have been proven to be fact as information became declassified and publicly available. In fact, the assassination of President Kennedy has long been the most widely believed "conspiracy theory" among the US populace, with over 60% of Americans believing that Kennedy's death was part of a larger conspiracy and not the work of a lone gunman. Now, another "conspiracy theory" is approaching that same level of acceptance as over half of Americans do not believe that government's official narrative regarding the September 11th attacks.

For Alonzo Willis of Butte, being sprayed by a water cannon in subfreezing temperatures wasn't the worst part of a Sunday night confrontation at Standing Rock.

It was seeing a woman severely injured.

He said he and Butte friend Isaiah Other Bull were close to protester Sophia Wilansky when she was injured in a confrontation with police.

After the water-spraying, the crowd had thinned out to fewer than a dozen people. Two of them — including Wilansky — were near a barricade on the highway. "They weren't past the barricade -- not past the barbed wire or anything," Willis said. "They were just standing there."

"One of the guys got hit with a rubber bullet. The girl (Wilansky) got hit by a rubber bullet and she fell," said Willis, 23. "And then they shot a percussion grenade and it got her in the arm."

Law-enforcement at the scene denied using grenades, and said the Wilansky may have been hurt by a propane tank being used as a weapon by the protesters. But Wilansky, Willis, Other Bull and other eyewitnesses dispute that account.

"It hit her and it just went 'Boom!' It blew her down," Willis said.

He said he and two others "ran over there as fast as we could ... she was screaming, 'My arm is gone!'