“If you interrupt proceedings it is open to me to proceed in your absence,” the judge told Assange on Tuesday.

New York Daily News

The body of a 30-year-old partially clad woman was found on the roof of a Brooklyn building Monday morning, police officials said.

The woman, not identified, was found at 8:31 am on Sept. 8 wrapped in a plastic tarp on the roof of 277 Rockaway Parkway in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. People who reported the body were seeing it from 9720 Kings Highway, police say.

Police from the 67th Precinct said they could not immediately disclose the identity of the victim and the cause of death would be determined by the City’s Medical Examiner.

However, police were treating the death as a homicide.

This story first appeared on AMNY.com.

Brooklyn Paper

The top United Nations human rights official on Tuesday urged Russia to either conduct or fully cooperate with an independent investigation into Germany’s findings that well-known Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent.

New York Daily News