A woman who vanished more than six decades ago has been discovered alive, according to authorities in Wisconsin, USA. Audrey Backeberg was just 20 when she disappeared from her home in Reedsburg on July 7, 1962, sparking a case that baffled investigators for years. Sauk County Sheriff Chip Meister confirmed that her disappearance had not involved any crime or foul play. He stated that Ms. Backeberg had chosen to leave…

The Brazilian police said on Sunday that they had thwarted a bomb attack planned for Lady Gaga’s historic concert that drew over 2 million people to Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro state, working in coordination with the Justice Ministry, said the plot was orchestrated by a group promoting hate speech and the radicalization of teenagers, including self-harm and violent content as a…

A recent investigation has revealed that thousands of illegal migrants and asylum seekers are working as couriers for food delivery companies across the UK, earning up to £500 a week despite having no legal right to work. Many are using the income to repay debts owed to criminal smuggling networks that facilitated their entry into Britain via dangerous Channel crossings. Despite the Labour government’s push to reduce immigration, the gig economy—particularly…

Britain’s counter-terrorism police have arrested eight men, including seven Iranian nationals, in a number of raids across the country, the Metropolitan Police said on Sunday. On Saturday, five men, four of whom are Iranian nationals, were detained on suspicion of terrorism offences over a plot to target specific premises, while the nationality of the fifth man remains unknown. The arrests were made in Swindon, west London, Stockport, Rochdale, and Manchester.…

As tensions rise between the nuclear-armed neighbours in the wake of a deadly attack on tourists in the disputed Kashmir region, India said on Saturday that it had banned the import of goods coming from or transiting via Pakistan and barred Pakistani ships. India’s Directorate General of Foreign Trade said in a notification that the ban would take effect immediately. “This restriction is imposed in the interest of national security…

A Federal Appeal Court on Saturday blocked a ruling that had ordered the Trump administration to return more than 1,000 Voice of America employees back to work. The U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the administration to take all necessary steps to restore employees and contractors to their positions at the U.S. news service and resume radio, television and online news broadcasts, and some grants. The appeals court, in a…

After a seven-year legal battle, a UK tribunal has ruled that a Bangladeshi national can be deported from the country after determining he used a proxy to fraudulently complete an English language test required for his immigration status. The Upper Tribunal, led by Judge Bulpitt, found it “highly probable” that Md Abdur Rahim, now 37, engaged in deception by employing a stand-in to sit the mandatory English language test on…

A high-ranking Ugandan judge who once served on a United Nations criminal tribunal has been sentenced to more than six years in prison by a British court after being found guilty of modern slavery and immigration offenses involving the forced labor of a young Ugandan woman. Lydia Mugambe Ssali, 50, was convicted in March at Oxford Crown Court of conspiring to breach immigration law, facilitating travel with intent to exploit,…

In a recent decision to step down from royal duties with his American wife Meghan, Prince Harry had lost his legal challenge to changes to his security arrangements made by the British government. King Charles’ younger son, Harry, had sought to overturn a decision by the Home Office – the ministry responsible for policing – which decided in February 2020 he would not automatically receive personal police security while in…

Amid his wider crackdown on elite universities and the U.S. education system, Donald Trump said on Friday that he had  planned to strip Harvard University of its tax-exempt status by setting up another potential legal fight with the Ivy League school. In a post on his social media platform, without specifying when he might take action, Trump revealed that “We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status.…

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has shared plan to spend $2bn on one of Donald Trump’s cryptocurrencies, as the move has triggered accusations of a conflict of interest. The Emirati investment firm MGX, which is backed by Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, said it planned to do a deal using a so-called stablecoin called USD1. The coin, which is meant to track the value of the US dollar, was developed…

Following Rachel Reeves’s raid on North Sea oil and gas companies, the FTSE 100 giant has revealed that Shell faces an extra £380m in tax. The oil giant said it expected the Chancellor’s expansion of the so-called energy profits levy – also known as the windfall tax – to cost an additional $509m (£382m) up to 2030. It comes after Ms Reeves extended the levy’s duration by a year while…