An organiser of the Black Lives Matter protests which toppled slave trader Edward Colston’s statue has been jailed for fraud after spending more than £30k on herself – including nearly £6k on Ubers. Xahra Saleem, 23, was sentenced to two and a
Hong Kong police on Thursday arrested 10 people on suspicion of endangering national security through their alleged involvement with a now-defunct fund that aimed to help people arrested in 2019 pro-democracy protests, escalating a crackdown on dissidents in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.
Conservative MPs have hit out at the Labour Party for accepting donations from Just Stop Oil financial backers. The Labour Party is under mounting pressure to return £1.5million worth of donations, accepted since 2014, from environmental campaigner Dale Vince, who is a
Seven Buddhist monks are among nine suspects who are being held in pre-trial detention after being arrested for allegedly embezzling assets worth about $8.9 million from donations received by a temple in Thailand’s northeast, authorities said Thursday. The Criminal Court for Corruption
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has raised £3.2million ($4million) in donations since he was indicted 24 hours ago. The former US President thrust the 2024 presidential election into uncharted territory, raising the remarkable prospect that the leading contender for the Republican nomination will
A homeless man has worked out he makes his local Tesco store more than £10,000 a year from generous passers-by buying him food and drink – and thinks the supermarket giant should give him a job. Ivor Morgan Lawrence, 50, from Tipton,
The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund (PWCF) has just announced it will award £1.95million in grants to seven charities over the next three years. The Fund, established by King Charles, has donated over £73million since it was established in 1979. The chosen
The Labour Party and its leader Sir Keir Starmer have accepted donations from the company Ecotricity which was founded by Dale Vince, a wealthy climate change activist. Mr Vince has also funded Just Stop Oil, an environmental group, and has also given
Yvette Cooper, Wes Streeting and Dan Jarvis raked in hundreds of thousands of pounds from MPM Connect Ltd in the past two years. Overall the firm has dished out £345,217 to the three high-profile since February 2020. MPM Connect has no internet