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...The Black Hornet rotary nano-drone used for surveillance by troops in combat in Afghanistan was retired in 2016, while last year the army lost all 230 Desert Hawk III small, fixed-wing surveillance drones...
...Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Zuzana Čaputová, presidents of Germany and Slovakia, review troops in Berlin....
...Dealer Nick Maclean says that bidding at Christie’s on Francis Bacon’s “Landscape near Malabata, Tangier” (1963) — which went to adviser Francis Outred for a within-estimate £16.8mn (£19.6mn with fees) —...
...It has been a gradual demise for the gallery, which was founded by Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer in 1946 and in its postwar heyday boasted the likes of Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Paula Rego on its...
...The Fed, together with other US regulators, has faced strong criticism from the banking industry over what would constitute the biggest change to capital requirements since the Dodd-Frank act was introduced...
...Patterson points to a pewter beaker from the 1690s engraved with wrigglework portraits of William III and Mary II that sold at Christie’s for £14,400....
...that declared Boris Johnson’s attempts to prorogue parliament illegal; the other from Charles III’s accession oath not to intervene in the affairs of the Scottish church....
...I often pop into Galerie Vallois on Rue de Seine to see work by artists and designers I absolutely love such as Jean-Michel Frank....
...This might explain why the overall share of bank lending has basically flatlined since 2009 despite the whole Dodd-Frank jamboree....
...The Rugby World Cup is continuing, and Pope Francis will be in Marseille over the weekend....
...Frank Bowling’s “Middle Passage” (1970), hot reds and oranges surging across a map of Africa and ghostly figural outlines, is a glowing abstraction....
...They warn of dire consequences for “everyday Americans” if the authorities push ahead with reforms that are officially known as “the finalisation of Basel III” but have been apocalyptically termed “the Basel...
...is in lieu of a catalogue and features reproductions of Chamberlain’s art alongside things Fischer conjectures he may have influenced or been influenced by: Jacob Epstein’s “The Rock Drill” (1913-15); Francis...
...Previous names in traditional music crop up in their conversation, from Dublin street ballad specialist Frank Harte to 1970s folk band Planxty....
...Among the most significant are the Basel III reforms, due to be phased in from 2025, which look set to push up banks’ capital requirements....
...In contrast, Migos’s last album, 2021’s Culture III, went along at 230 words per minute....
...Frank Creyelman was used as an asset by Chinese spies for more than three years, an investigation last week by the FT, Der Spiegel and Le Monde revealed....
...open or face a partial shutdown of federal agencies Saturday Germany: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is expected to visit Berlin and hold talks with German chancellor Olaf Scholz and president Frank-Walter...
...Sotheby’s sold 11 lots featuring tie pins in Geneva earlier this month, with two early 20th-century gem and diamond examples from the collection of Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria fetching SFr10,795, nearly...
...British Columbia’s most popular radio station being broadcast from its penthouse studio, and for its role as the local industry’s de facto locale for hosting visiting musicians, including the likes of Frank...
...Chris Francis on alto sax, Jim Dvorak — an American who relocated to the UK to escape the Vietnam draft — on trumpet and pianist Frank Roberts all follow the form and play to the edge....
...As a title, it certainly has more allure than the more bluntly factual Poirot III....
...An early work by Francis Bacon, made when he was still a decorator in the 1920s, shows an eerie combination of ghostly figures and columns....
...Deakin & Francis has used this emblem for one of its eight designs for sterling silver commemorative cufflinks....
...Zelenskyy met Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz, president Frank-Walter Steinmeier and other officials a day after visiting Rome to meet Italian leaders and Pope Francis....
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