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...Additional reporting by Ian Johnston in London...
...In a recent note, Covenant Review’s Ian Feng highlights problems with the way the blockers work today, and proposes an alternative....
...Geir Belsnes, chief executive of J. Ludwig Mowinckels Rederi, which owns the tanker, told the Financial Times he “wasn’t aware of any warnings in advance [of the missile attack] . . ....
...Geir Belsnes, chief executive of J. Ludwig Mowinckels Rederi, said no one was injured and the crew managed to extinguish the fire....
...Chair Ian Carter and chief financial officer Anders Romberg picked up £206,000 and £585,000-worth of shares respectively....
...No action figures are yet being sold of J Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb....
...Sea trials of the Liaoning and the Shandong took more than a year before they began operations with China’s carrier-borne J-15 fighters in earnest....
...“He can basically be as populist, and as much of a culture warrior, as he wants,” said J Miles Coleman of the non-partisan University of Virginia Center for Politics....
...McCarthy faces his own challenging calculus....
...Beijing launched the manoeuvres on Saturday to “punish” Taiwan after President Tsai Ing-wen met House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California last week....
...Nuclear physics was sufficiently developed that Emil J Konopinski and others from the Manhattan Project were able to show that it was almost impossible to set the atmosphere on fire this way....
...watched case has been brought by leaseholders of Boswell Court and Hitherwood Court in north-west London against their landlord, RMB102, which is ultimately owned by property tycoon James Tuttiett’s E&J...
...Ian Paisley Jr, a DUP MP, said the unionist community was “out of love” with the region’s institutions — but they could be the only way to preserve the union....
...Seafood is the speciality here (from Dover sole, £52 for 16oz, to lobster Thermidor, £35 for a half), but head chef David McCarthy also rustles up classics such as Bannockburn rib steak with Béarnaise sauce...
...Ian Rickson’s exhilarating production played out this time in a country ragged with argument and disputation and wary of mythmakers bearing tales of greatness....
...She also often collaborated with writers such as Jan Morris and VS Pritchett – most famously shooting the photographs for Mary McCarthy’s seminal literary study The Stones of Florence....
...The Passenger and Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy, Picador £20 each/Knopf $30 & $26 You wait 16 years for a Cormac McCarthy novel then two come at once....
...Operating income at the theme parks more than doubled to $1.5bn, and revenue rose 36 per cent to $7.4bn despite the impact of Hurricane Ian....
...Not Ian McEwan, who, now that he has outlived Hilary Mantel, might be the last serious novelist with nationwide name recognition. So why “Mart”?...
...So Norm, Kevin McCarthy, you are one of the leading experts on Congress in the world. Kevin McCarthy, is it a safe bet he'll be speaker, assuming they have the majority?...
...The first guest to arrive is Ignatius J Reilly, John Kennedy Toole’s elephantine protagonist....
...“In any year the risk is borne mostly by the artists,” said Lyndsey Jackson, McCarthy’s deputy....
...The revamp is being led by former model Liberty Ross, daughter of original owner Ian “Flipper” Ross, and Kevin Wall....
...Before your dip, stop by T.J. Pullin’s and Books on the Hill, so you can enjoy lemon macarons with a good read by the poolside....
...Other supermarkets, including Tesco, Asda and J Sainsbury have also released named caterpillar-shaped cakes in green packaging but Aldi is the only one to have been subject to legal action....
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