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...And a reciprocal invocation of Article V — if, say, Europe was attacked by Russia — is at best untested and, at worst, a bluff....
...Taiwan has 141 older F-16 models which are being upgraded to the newer Viper type. The 66 new F-16 V aircraft approved by Trump are due to arrive by the end of 2026....
...Crackling with asterisks, untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play is a suitably sparky title for a show that’s like a lit stick of dynamite....
...Though the title clearly echoes the 1989 musical Miss Saigon, the parody also scoops up references to Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly, the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical South Pacific and television series...
...In this case it’s 1968 and the launch of a series of late-night television debates between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr....
...A picture of confidence, Richard Nixon strode down the stairs of Air Force One after landing in Beijing on a brisk winter morning in February 1972 and stuck out his hand so fast it was impossible to miss...
...Shimao’s dollar bonds due this year went from $71 to $48: Another developer, Guangzhou R&F Properties, said it might miss a repayment next week....
...“There’s a lot of negativity in the price,” said Paul Lukaszewski, head of corporate debt for Asia-Pacific at Aberdeen Standard Investments....
...The plinth has been empty since King George V’s bust was removed in the 1960s. Some wanted to erect Mohandas Gandhi’s statue there....
...The first work, an unsettling fusion of man and beast pointing to a form of shamanistic worship, has been traced to as far back as 3,200BC; the photograph of the bubble-gum lady-with-attitude, “Miss Hybrid...
...August 13: H&F bids €390 a share....
...You really can (Route) Mount Tamalpais — known locally as Mount Tam — rises more than 2,500ft alongside the Pacific....
...diplomatic wranglings and trade wars were dying down, the EU this week contrived to crank up tensions with Russia, after the European Medicines Agency questioned the ethics behind trials of the Sputnik V...
...Charted waters looks into the rollout of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...Don’t miss China is exploring limiting the export of rare earth minerals that are crucial for the manufacture of US F-35 fighter jets and other sophisticated weaponry, according to people involved in a...
...“There's some risk, but we'll have a hard time getting into the civilian business [of passenger aircraft] if we miss this opportunity,” said Kazuo Tsukuda, the company’s president at the time....
...He had already moved up from Class V to Class IV. I watched a replay of the Stockholm Sprint Championship, where he had fought off Bright Knight and Gandalf the White to win by a nose....
...Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor gave rise to a transatlantic alliance powerful enough to defeat both the Nazis in Europe and the Japanese imperial army in the Pacific....
...Don’t miss Cratering relations amid trade tensions between China and the US have left global businesses confronting lose-lose propositions. Global companies cannot leave China....
...Don’t miss The coronavirus is a global crisis, not a crisis of globalisation, writes Robert Armstrong in the FT....
...Gojek, for instance, is on track to raise up to $2.5bn for its Series F round, which is set to close in January 2020....
...The money brings the amount raised in the company’s Series F round to “just under $3bn”....
...Don’t miss The G7 major economies have pledged to do “whatever is necessary” to stabilise a global economy shaken by the coronavirus pandemic, with its leaders vowing to co-ordinate recovery plans in the...
...The miss is a function of a 1.1% miss on revenues (predominantly due to a miss on OOI but NIM of 285bps was marginally below consensus expectations for 286bps, following guidance for NIM in the high 280’...
...A V-shaped recovery is clearly emerging, notwithstanding subsequent waves. Elsewhere, it’s still too early to tell and is dependent on western demand....
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