One of the organizers of the Black Lives Matter in the UK has admitted fraud after £30,000 raised from donors went missing. Xahra Saleem, 23, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud by abuse of position following an investigation by Avon and Somerset Police into a GoFundMe page called ‘BristBLM’ set up ahead of the protest in Bristol in June 2020. Saleem had set up the crowdfunding page to raise money for face masks and other equipment to help facilitate …
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Princess Latifa of Dubai appears to still be alive if new pictures released are to be believed. New photographs uploaded to Instagram shows what looks to be Princess Latifa Al Maktoum, daughter of Dubai ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who has allegedly been held captive for years against her will. The snap shared by social media account “Shinny Bryn”, shows a photo of three women including a smiling Princess Latifa sitting around a table in public. …
A Russian social media influencer who is pregnant for her 20-year-old stepson has married him after divorcing his father. Marina Balmasheva, 35, from the western Russian region of Krasnodar Krai, lived with her husband Alexey, 45, from 2007 for over 10 years before they got divorced. This week she shared video as she married her ex-husband’s son Vladimir Shavyrin who she raised from the age of 7, and revealed they are expecting their first child, a baby boy. …
US President, Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden have both revealed the eye-popping fundraising records both campaigns received last month, with Biden’s campaign getting $10m more money than Trump’s . The former vice president’s campaign announced on Wednesday night that they, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and their joint fundraising committees got a combined $141 million in June, which was by …
The widow of Li Wenliang, a Chinese doctor who first raised the alarm about the country’s Coronavirus outbreak, has given birth to their son. Wenliang’s wife, Fu Xuejie on Friday shared a picture of the boy on the messaging app WeChat, calling him a “final gift” from Dr Li. His widow, Mrs Fu, now has two sons with her late husband. In her message she wrote: “Husband, can you see this from heaven? You have given me …
A GoFundMe campaign to help the family of George Floyd, the black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer forcefully kneeled on his neck during his arrest, has now raised over $4.6 million in just three days. The campaign created by Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, has received more than 180,000 donations totaling to $4,652,670, as of Sunday morning (May 31). The initial goal was to raise $1.5 million. Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who was filmed kneeling on …