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By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) -Bangladesh will take steps to tackle and prevent unlawful practices or interference in its elections, authorities said on Thursday, a day after the United States threatened curbs on citizens of the South Asian nation who undermine them. Concern flared after accusations of vote-rigging and the targeting of the political opposition marred national elections in 2014 and 2018, charges denied by the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. […]

By Saliou Samb and Souleymane Camara CONAKRY (Reuters) – With the acrid smell of burning tyres hanging in the air, Conakry resident Mariame Diallo pointed to blood splatters on a wall where she said her teenage brother was shot at close range during a protest against Guinea’s military government on May 11. “I will never forgive those who killed him,” she said between bouts of quiet crying. Clutching a bag […]

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -Guam weathered its most powerful storm in years without major damage on Thursday after Super Typhoon Mawar unleashed winds of up to 150 mph (240 kph) and torrential rain on the Western Pacific Island. All but 1,000 of the island’s 52,000 homes and businesses lost power, according to the Guam Power Authority, but government officials reported nothing unusual in hospital emergency rooms, and only moderate damage […]

By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) -Bangladesh will take steps to tackle and prevent unlawful practices or interference in its elections, authorities said on Thursday, a day after the United States threatened curbs on citizens of the South Asian nation who undermine them. Concern flared after accusations of vote-rigging and the targeting of the political opposition marred national elections in 2014 and 2018, charges denied by the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – The emirate of Abu Dhabi is making a large-scale artificial intelligence model, “Falcon 40B”, available open source for research and commercial use, the government’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC) said on Thursday. ATRC’s commercial investment arm VentureOne said it would back viable ideas that come from using the model. Falcon 40B is a foundational large language model (LLM) with 40 billion parameters and trained on one trillion […]

(Reuters) -Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a farming community and abusive relationship to become one of the top recording artists of all time, died on Wednesday at the age of 83. Below are reactions from musicians, actors and the White House. ACTOR ANGELA BASSETT, WHO PLAYED TURNER IN A 1993 MOVIE “How do we say farewell to a woman who owned her pain and trauma and used it […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Firefighters are battling a massive blaze in a large multi-storey building in central Sydney as emergency services cordoned off the area. Television footage showed firefighters trying to put out the fire in a building close to Sydney’s central railway station. A car parked nearby was also in flames. Burning embers were also swept onto a balcony in a nearby building, footage showed. The fire service did not […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – The stage is set in Dortmund for the most dramatic Bundesliga finale in more than a decade with Borussia fans desperate to see the team win their first league title in 11 years on Saturday against visitors Mainz 05. The Ruhr valley club, who last won the Bundesliga under then coach Juergen Klopp in 2012, are one win away from making sure they lift the Meisterschale in […]

(reuters) – The Russian-backed head of Crimea’s administration said on Thursday that air defences had downed six drones overnight in different areas of the region. There were no casualties, Sergei Aksyonov said on Telegram. (This story has been refiled to fix the dateline) (Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Christian Schmollinger) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com