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...Well, it’s already actually caused a military response from the United States. So talk us through what the tensions are there....
...ambassador to the United Nations....
...To hear Tom Tugendhat-, a friend of mine, by the way, a member of parliament in the UK... to hear his speech, to hear the minister of defence of the UK very directly criticising the United States, to hear...
...Members of the US Army Corps of Engineers were deployed at seven hospitals in LA county and neighbouring San Bernardino to upgrade oxygen systems and “bring in additional oxygen trucks”....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...But 15 of the 34 client names listed in the documents in relation to those payments are names of entities/companies that had never heard of Al Alam....
...Power players: Khalifa Haftar The dominant military force in the east of the country since 2014 as head of his Libyan National Army....
...A member of the Shabak ethnic minority, which has Shia and Sunni practitioners, he is Shia. The friend who betrayed him, Sunni....
...(The wonder of God!),” Zintan community leader Shabaan Emran exclaims as he embraces the Sobrata fighters one by one like old friends....
...Romantically, says Barham Salih, every Kurd wants a united Kurdistan, not only a state carved out of Iraq....
...Tribal fighters who had helped rout al-Qaeda in 2007 did not see state benefits – in pay or status – follow....
...A week before Christmas he was shot by a tank in Deir Ezzor on the banks of the Euphrates, fighting for the Islamist State of Iraq and al-Sham (Isis), the most brutal of all the factions fighting against...
...A French friend recently attended a Californian reception packed with brilliant French engineers working in Silicon Valley....
...The corps’ Quds Force is a particular concern and is understood to be responsible for Iran’s ties with Hizbollah and Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...He spent nearly a decade in the military – enlisting during the second world war, serving in the naval air corps and then in the army during the Korean war as a combat helicopter pilot....
...Travelling as much as I did, while I didn’t lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.” The recent death of the writer Nora Ephron, a close friend, was a heavy blow....
...United States of America....
...From Pakistan to Yemen, the al-Qaeda operatives who remain are scrambling, knowing that they can’t escape the reach of the United States of America....
...The clash of church and state at the heart of the story reverberates to this day....
...Having just written the Army/ Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, General David Petraeus was sent to Iraq, along with five additional brigades of troops....
...A state of emergency remains in place....
...Rice, former US secretary of state, “What would I have to do to woo you?”...
...I know you have the ear of the Pope, Obama, Lakshmi et al, but I ask you humbly to let this be strictly “off the record”....
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