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(Bloomberg) — Indian authorities have so far seized 88.9 billion rupees ($1.1 billion) worth of illicit money, drugs and other goods in its crackdown on illegal vote inducements in India’s six-week election, the country’s Election Commission said Saturday. Most Read from Bloomberg The haul exceeds the entirety seized during the last general election in 2019, […]

(Bloomberg) — An oil tanker was hit by a missile off the coast of Yemen, Agence France-Presse reported. Most Read from Bloomberg The vessel was near the Bab el-Mandeb strait about 10 nautical miles (19 kilometers) southwest of the city of Mokha, the report said Saturday, citing maritime security firm Ambrey. The Iran-backed Houthi militants […]

Officers and medics are responding to a crash in Germantown Saturday morning. Around 8:36 a.m. Germantown Police and Fire crews were dispatched to the area of Dayton Germantown Pike and Weaver Rd on reports of a two-vehicle crash. >> Search for man in Great Miami River continues this morning A Montgomery County Regional Sergeant confirmed […]

The leader of the Russian parliament has accused the European Union of censorship and violating freedom of the press and expression after the EU’s decision to ban several Russian media. Vyacheslav Volodin, a confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on Saturday that the European Union made the move because it lacks arguments to convince […]

A townhouse under construction collapsed as a deadly storm hit Houston, Texas, on Thursday. Footage taken by Jeff Baker shows lightning flashing over a residential Houston street before the wooden framing of a structure collapses into a pile of rubble. View comments EMEA Tribune is not involved in this news article, it is taken from […]

At least 50 people have died in flash floods triggered by heavy rains in central Afghanistan, officials have said. Authorities in the Ghor province say a number of others are missing, as people ran to safety on higher grounds just minutes before the floodwaters hit. They say the floods have also killed thousands of cattle, […]

May 18—The ALEA video of Steve Perkins’ death broadcast by a conservative news outlet was edited with the help of the Huntsville Police Department and shown to Decatur officers because supervisors felt the District Attorney’s Office misrepresented the facts of the case, according to testimony at a hearing Friday on whether to extend a temporary […]

TechCrunch This Week in AI: OpenAI moves away from safety This week in AI, OpenAI once again dominated the news cycle (despite Google’s best efforts) with a product launch, but also, with some palace intrigue. The company unveiled GPT-4o, its most capable generative model yet, and just days later effectively disbanded a team working on […]

Alexei Navalny’s close ally Leonid Volkov has vowed to “never give up” fighting against Vladimir Putin, so the late Russian opposition leader’s “ultimate sacrifice” would “not be in vain”. In his first TV interview since a brutal hammer attack in March outside his home in Lithuania, where he lives in exile, Mr Volkov told the […]

May 18—FRANKFORT — Residents continue to express concerns about a Crystal Lake development where past missteps have led to civil lawsuits and accusations of Open Meetings Act violations. Sunkissed Hills is a project by Terra Innovations, a Maryland-based property firm with projects in Florida, Maryland, Montana and Michigan, founded by its president, Billy Becker, according […]

As Donald Trump increasingly infuses his campaign with Christian trappings while coasting to a third Republican presidential nomination, his support is as strong as ever among evangelicals and other conservative Christians. “Trump supports Jesus, and without Jesus, America will fall,” said Kimberly Vaughn of Florence, Kentucky, as she joined other supporters of the former president […]