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A founder of a French cryptocurrency company and his wife were freed in France this week after being brutally kidnapped and held for ransom, the authorities announced on Thursday.David Balland, a founder of Ledger, a company that sells physical devices to store crypto assets, was abducted alongside his wife early on Tuesday from their home in Vierzon, a city in central France, according to the Paris prosecutor. The couple were whisked away by car, then separated and detained at different locations, the prosecutor said.The kidnapping set off a broad investigation involving more than 230 officers who sought to locate the…

If your healthcare data hasn’t been breached in 2024, then you either don’t know it yet or should consider yourself very lucky. That’s because 2024 was a nightmare year for healthcare institutions and patients in the U.S. A total of 184,111,469 records were breached. That’s 53% of the 2024 population of the United States. This staggering figure represents a significant increase from previous years, setting a new and alarming record in healthcare data breaches. The healthcare sector faced unprecedented challenges in cybersecurity, with attacks becoming more frequent, sophisticated and damaging than ever before.I’M GIVING AWAY THE LATEST & GREATEST AIRPODS PRO 2 Illustration of…

Getty ImagesMany Afghan refugees now feel hopeless after Trump’s immigration orders (file photo)”It’s like the United States doesn’t actually understand what I did for this country, it’s a betrayal,” Abdullah tells the BBC.He fled Afghanistan with his parents amid the US withdrawal in August 2021 and is now a paratrooper for the US military. He worries he can’t help his sister and her husband escape too, because of President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending a resettlement programme.The order cancels all flights and applications for Afghan refugees, without any exemption for families of active servicemembers. Trump argues the decision addresses “record…

Single looks good on Jessica Simpson. The “Irresistible” singer showed her ex-husband Eric Johnson what he’s missing after she flaunted her fit physique in several daring outfits on social media. The 44-year-old bared her toned legs and several jaw-dropping looks from her Jessica Simpson fashion collection for Walmart.JESSICA SIMPSON, ERIC JOHNSON SPLIT AFTER 10 YEARS OF MARRIAGE Jessica Simpson flaunted her toned legs and several jaw-dropping looks from her fashion collection in a behind-the-scenes video shared on her social media. (Jessica Simpson/Instagram)In the behind-the-scenes video, Simpson posed in a plunging yellow swimsuit with her blonde hair in beach waves, as she modeled…

By JAMIE STENGLE, Associated PressDALLAS (AP) — President Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of classified governmental documents about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which has fueled conspiracy theories for decades.The executive order Trump signed Thursday also aims to declassify the remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The order is among a flurry of executive actions Trump has quickly taken the first week of his second term.Speaking to reporters, Trump said, “everything will be revealed.”Trump had promised during his reelection campaign to…

A teenager who stabbed three young girls to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England was sentenced Thursday to more than 50 years in prison for what a judge called “the most extreme, shocking and exceptionally serious crime.” Judge Julian Goose said 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana “wanted to try and carry out mass murder of innocent, happy young girls.”Goose said that he couldn’t impose a sentence of life without parole, because Rudakubana was under 18 when he committed the crime.But the judge said he must serve 52 years, minus the six months he’s been in custody, before being considered for parole, and “it…

Historically Germany has been a world champion of the rights of workers related to their health. In 1883 Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of the German empire, set up the world’s first statutory health-insurance system with the Health Insurance Act, which included paid sick leave. Bismarck’s Krankenversicherungsgesetz was not motivated by concern for workers’ welfare so much as a strategy to beat socialists at their own game. Yet it laid the foundations of Germany’s welfare state and was followed by laws on accident and disability insurance.

Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of classified governmental documents about the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy, which has fueled conspiracy theories for decades.The executive order the president signed on Thursday also aims to declassify the remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of Robert F Kennedy and the Rev Martin Luther King Jr. The order is among a flurry of executive actions Trump has quickly taken the first week of his second term.“More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F Kennedy, Senator Robert F Kennedy, and the Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr,…

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Thursday he had requested arrest warrants for the supreme leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban government and the country’s chief justice for their “unprecedented” persecution of Afghan women and girls.The prosecutor, Karim Khan, said in a statement that the Taliban’s leader, Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada, and the head of Afghanistan’s supreme court, Abdul Hakim Haqqani, had committed a crime against humanity: “persecution on gender grounds.”“Afghan women and girls, as well as the LGBTQI+ community, are facing an unprecedented, unconscionable and ongoing persecution by the Taliban,” the statement said.Since U.S. troops pulled out of…

The Trump administration emailed thousands of federal employees on Wednesday, ordering them to report any efforts to “disguise” diversity initiatives in their agencies or face “adverse consequences”.The request came after President Donald Trump banned diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices and programmes throughout the government.Emails seen by the BBC directed workers to “report all facts and circumstances” to a new government email address within 10 days.Some employees interpreted it as a demand to sell out their colleagues to the White House.”We’re really freaked out and overwhelmed,” said one employee at the Department Health and Human Services (HHS).The Office of Personnel…