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...Washington hoped the USS Gerald R Ford strike carrier group, plus further US forces, would deter Iran and its myriad proxies in the region and contain the crisis....
...Austin also extended the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, which is one of two stationed near Israel....
...After visiting Bahrain, where the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet is stationed, the defence secretary will stop aboard the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier, currently in the eastern Mediterranean, and also travel...
...Like most of today’s trumpeters of note, the influence of Miles Davis is strong — it was Harrold’s trumpet that graced Don Cheadle’s biopic Miles Ahead....
...Additional reporting by Felicia Schwartz in Washington...
...Ramaphosa has identified a retired judge to head the Lady R inquiry but has yet to name that person or finalise the terms of reference for the probe, his office said this week....
...Including dollar and rupee-denominated bonds, plus a financing facility from Howard Marks’ Oaktree Capital Management, Vedanta has to pay back close to $6.2bn in the next 18 months, said Lakshmanan R, senior...
...When Frank came out, she was briefly labelled the “British Badu” due to the influence of one of her favourite artists, the innovative US soul and R&B singer Erykah Badu....
...Then “Amazing Grace”, played instrumentally and channelling 1950s gospel R&B in the style of Ray Charles: Benjamin’s phrases curled round the chords and slurred, sighed and moaned; Curtis supported with...
...Eletrobras swung into a slight net loss for the third quarter, compared with a profit of R$965mn a year before....
...Most of the additional expenditure will fund a temporary increase to an existing cash transfer scheme for the poorest families, who will receive about R$600 ($110) per month on average, up from R$400....
...AIP has no staff outside of New York, but four of its executives — Dino Cusumano, Danny Davis, Zac Carson and Max Holmes — turned up in northern France last week to tell 100 workers at Gupta’s Dunkirk aluminium...
...It brought in third party investors and was sold in 2009 to bring in more funding and critical mass to support the costs of R&D....
...that series, and perhaps to compensate, all manner of extra ingredients were ladled on: a pre-performance stand-up supper, a post-performance of music made by sounding everyday objects, narrator Helga Davis...
...His style emerged from a distinctively British fertile crescent in the 1960s where the worlds of jazz, R&B, blues and light entertainment overlapped....
...That year, An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim’s film about Al Gore’s campaign to educate the world about climate change, was released, charting a promising future for biofuels, electrification, and...
...Bolsonaro’s administration has denied any wrongdoing with the R$1.6bn ($320m) agreement in February to acquire the jabs....
...DD is expecting CD&R, which is working with Goldman Sachs, to return with an improved offer....
...East London-based tarot reader Felicia Kozak has become an underground phenomenon....
...In most distressed situations over the past decade (think Toys R Us or Chesapeake Energy) it’s the core business that is suffering from permanent decline. AMC’s situation was different....
...In these pages in September, the Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis argued travel writers and explorers should ignore their own sentiments and strive to look “beyond the shadow of self”....
...“I’m positive whatever decision he makes, there will be people that will publicly disagree with him,” says Daniel R Alonso, a lawyer at Buckley in New York, who once served as Mr Vance’s top deputy....
...But Mr Coppel said the £750m in extra grants and loans for R&D through Innovate UK was “super important”....
...Griffin cut his teeth playing big band R&B, Davis stood out among Count Basie’s brass and both could make their presence felt in the space of a bar....
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