French authorities raided five banks on Tuesday as part of an investigation into suspected cases of massive tax fraud and money laundering, prosecutors said
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Labour peer asks to be on Boris Johnson’s jury if former UK prime minister faces trial
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock’s question to justice minister Lord Bellamy sparked laughter across the House of Lords.
Rare beetle found on former California governor’s ranch named after him
Bembidion brownorum, named for Jerry Brown, was last seen in 1966, but hadn’t been named until one was collected on his ranchScientists are naming a rare species of beetle in honor of the former California governor Jerry Brown after finding one at his …
Brueghel work found in dim French TV room sells for $845,000
One of Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s largest known works, whose discovery behind the television room door of a house in northern France amazed the art world, has fetched 780,000 euros ($845,000) at auction in Paris.
More Jewish or more democratic? Israel protests become fight for country’s ‘essential character’
The streets of Israel have boiled with anger and frustration for three months. And they continue to seethe even after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paused — just a little — in his quest to r…
Belarus Says It’s Willing to Host Russian Nuclear Weapons
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia floated the idea of positioning nuclear weapons in Belarus last year, but recently raised the idea again, with more concrete details.
With the launch of plugins, ChatGPT has become an aggregator that puts OpenAI on a path to becoming the next major consumer tech platform (Stratechery)
Stratechery:
With the launch of plugins, ChatGPT has become an aggregator that puts OpenAI on a path to becoming the next major consumer tech platform — Yesterday’s episode of Sharp Tech discussed AI risk and the incredibly uncertain…
Geopolitical Importance of Indian Ocean
New Delhi: While the focus remains on the western Pacific and the South China Sea, because of the China-US direct interests, the Indian Ocean is a major geopolitical theatre. Several key energy-producing countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Qatar and the UAE are located in the region. More than 60 per cent of the world’s oil shipments, largely from the Middle East to China, Japan and
Nashville victims: three nine-year-olds and school head among six shot dead
Three children at the Covenant School in the Tennessee capital were shot dead on Monday, the 129th US mass shooting this yearThree nine-year-old children and three adults arrived at the Covenant School, a small, private Christian academy in Nashville, …
With U.S. opposed, UN Security Council rejects Russia-led push for Nord Stream probe
The United Nations Security Council on Monday rejected a Russia-led effort to launch a fresh international probe into last year’s sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in the wake of investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s reports accusing the U.S. o…