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...Additional reporting by Henry Foy in Brussels...
...Henry ManceYeah, I suppose....
...The debate over using western weapons to strike Russia is likely to intensify as some Nato allies begin to ship F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine....
...Plane justice: A Dutch court has blocked the export of F-35 parts to Israel over concerns it is violating international human rights law....
...He used the name Mr Henry, he said, because he did not want the Germans to think that the Jews were coming back to take their revenge....
...US Treasury under-secretary Brian Nelson, who met Turkish counterparts in Turkey last week, warned that Washington was “profoundly concerned” about Turkey’s role in facilitating Hamas’s access to international...
...The two leaders have not had direct, bilateral contact since May 2022, when Mitsotakis lobbied against Ankara’s efforts to buy F-16 fighter jets from Washington....
...A coalition of 11 western countries will begin training Ukrainian pilots in modern US-made F-16 fighter jets next month, the defence ministers of Denmark and Netherlands said on Tuesday....
...Washington and its European allies are lobbying Ankara to approve Sweden’s accession to Nato, while Turkey is also seeking to purchase billions of dollars worth of American F-16 fighter jets to upgrade its...
...The US will transfer F-16s to Turkey, its national security adviser said on Tuesday, hours after Turkish president Recep Tayep Erdoğan agreed to drop his veto on Sweden joining Nato....
...Nato countries could start training Ukrainian pilots on flying F-16 fighter jets this summer, the alliance’s secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg has said....
...Biden first offered support to the idea of sending F-16s last year after Finland and Sweden applied to join Nato....
...“Will you give F-16, F-35 [fighter jets]?...
...President John F Kennedy’s bold vision for space exploration began as a propaganda ploy, designed to display American might....
...In the (in)famous 1999 IPO of Internet Capital Group, for example, the f&f accounted for 30 per cent of the deal; the shares rocketed for a while before crashing and burning....
...Henry Foy in Brussels has more details on the proposal. Five more top stories 1....
.../ From J F Siebert, Shetland, UK...
...Turkey has insisted that the F-16 purchases should be separated from the Nato negotiations....
...The next step is an American ‘yes’ on actually making use of the F-16s in combat by Ukrainian fighter pilots . . . It’s a step-by-step approach.”...
...Free the F-16s For months Kyiv was told that US reluctance to approve transfers of F-16s was the problem. Now that’s cleared, the ball’s in Europe’s court....
...“He is often one of the first major artists in the country to embrace sounds and artists on the fringe,” says the music and culture writer Nelson CJ....
...Parallel discussions were also held with US president Joe Biden over Turkey’s plans to complete a multibillion-dollar deal to buy F-16 fighter jets, which has been held up in Congress....
...Ukraine has demanded F-16 fighters to help protect its skies but the US and European operators of the jets have been hesitant to provide them....
...I’d encourage you to step back in time 10 years and read Henry Mance’s eulogy to Who-ology, which is as true today about this remarkable brand as it was back then....
...AI and the afterlife: Henry Mance asks if it is really a good idea to have a chatbot that imitates the dead....
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