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BERLIN (AP) — Forget France: The Louvre Museum jewelry heist was a classic case of German efficiency.Photos of a German-made freight lift that the thieves used in a lightning-fast daylight heist at the Louvre have gone viral. And its manufacturer is now riding high from the unexpected endorsement. Alexander Böcker, the managing director and third-generation owner of Böcker Maschinenwerke GmbH, told The Associated Press that when he and his wife saw the images online, they were “shocked that our lift had been misused for this robbery.”“Once the initial shock had subsided, black humour took over,” he wrote in an email…

Lauren Goode: Well, they’re all interested in growing more. Who among us, Mike? But the hyperscalers refers to this class of major tech companies or cloud service providers. So Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, they’re all in that category.Molly Taft: Yeah, and I think it’s important to remember that these companies have so much money and they have an ability to raise capital like nobody’s business. So they’re able to do some really crazy stuff to build quick and to build-out really, really big. And they’re getting pretty creative, because their goals right now are to build these things quickly and…

The Karnataka Police Thursday informed the high court that BJP MLA Byrathi Basavaraj was in touch, personally and through close associates, with a gangster arrested for the murder of a real estate operator, both before and after the crime. The police have cited the close association unearthed by investigations between Basavaraj, 63, and the prime accused in the murder case, Jagadish P alias Jaga, 45, as well as an evidentiary statement given by the mother of the victim regarding the MLA’s role in a property dispute with her son, V G Shivaprakash, 44, as reasons to sustain the case and…

Kicking off the Bihar Assembly election campaign from Samastipur in Bihar’s Mithila region Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to weave together the discourses of social justice, development and Hindutva, while at the same time cautioning people not to let “jungle raj” return to the state. He also sought to tacitly answer the charge of the opposition that the BJP had fought shy of declaring Nitish Kumar as the chief ministerial candidate because it wanted to replace him after the elections, without overtly naming Kumar the CM candidate.The PM’s choice to begin with Samastipur is significant as the BJP has…

Gurugram: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has intensified its outreach to Bihari migrants in Haryana, aiming to strengthen the position of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as Bihar prepares for assembly elections.The mobilisation gained urgency in the wake of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, in which nearly 50 lakh names were removed by the Election Commission from the final voters’ list. Many of the deleted electors were identified as either having died, permanently shifted from their addresses, registered at more than one assembly, or untraceable. Many of those disenfranchised in Bihar have likely shifted to…

In the kaleidoscopic world of Bihar politics, the formula of electoral success has long hinged on the art of alliance, on forming trusted pacts among parties whose individual strengths rarely suffice. The politics of the state has always been about gatbandhans, alliances, and those alliances demand not only strategic seat-sharing but deep internal compromises, trust among partners, and above all, the confidence of the people. In this respect, the story of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)) in Bihar serves as a perfect case: at the Centre the BJP is the dominant force, but in Bihar…

Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the National Democratic Alliance will secure a massive victory in the Bihar Assembly polls. PM Modi will begin the BJP’s poll campaign from Samastipur, the birthplace of Bharat Ratna Karpoori Thakur, where he will pay homage to the departed leader. In a post on the social media platform X, PM Modi saluted Bharat Ratna Karpoori Thakur. The Prime Minister shared that he would have the privilege to pay tributes to Karpoori Thakur. Notably, it was the Modi government which…

New Delhi: Launching a scathing attack on the Opposition in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday said “RJD-Congress” are hell bent on ensuring the return of “jungle raj” in the state as he kicked off the NDA’s election campaign from Samastipur.PM Modi said the atmosphere in Mithila clearly showed that the “jungle raj of the Opposition” will be rejected by the people of Bihar, who will choose progress and development and ensure the NDA wins once again. “The RJD and Congress are only concerned about the political future of their own families. That’s why today they are setting new records of…

Not long into his new documentary, Oobah Butler tells the cofounder of his newly minted company, Drops, that they should create a piece of luxury luggage that “looks like a bomb” and will sell for $200,000.Immediately, I’m thinking his quest to get £1 million in 90 days might have come to an early end.But I’m wrong.Butler is a British prankster documentarian who is known for his stunts, like managing to get Amazon to sell its drivers’ urine as energy drinks or creating a fake restaurant called the Shed and gaming TripAdvisor to make it the top-rated London restaurant on the…

LONDON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is due in London on Friday for talks with two dozen European leaders who have pledged military help to protect his country from future Russian aggression if a ceasefire stops the more than three-year war.The meeting hosted by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is also due to discuss ways of helping protect Ukraine’s power grid from Russia’s almost daily drone and missiles attacks as winter approaches, enhancing Ukrainian air defenses, and supplying Kyiv with longer-range missiles that can strike deep inside Russia.The talks aim to step up pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin,…