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...The US House Speaker, Mike Johnson, who tabled the vote after months of delay, was “a politician whose seat is at stake”, he noted. The ups and downs of the war had taken their toll, said Romaniuk....
...Ukraine for the role he played in galvanising international support....
...This week, the base, which is the headquarters of the US Army’s V Corps, was renamed Camp Kościuszko after the Polish revolutionary who crossed the Atlantic to fight the British (gee, thanks Thaddeus)....
...The Ministry of Defence in March last year announced cuts to the army of 9,500 over the next four years to bring it to 72,500, making it the smallest full-time army for many years....
...Now, as they support Ukraine in its war with Russia, western powers are once again tempted to define winning as not losing....
...This exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of master goldsmith Carl Fabergé and his London clientele....
...Now the Fed has begun scaling back support and US interest rates are likely to rise....
...While based in Fort Devens, Massachusetts, he met Alma Johnson of Birmingham, Alabama, then an audiologist in Boston....
...Since Samuel Johnson acidly inquired “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps of liberty among the drivers of negroes?”, this founding contradiction has never been out of view....
...Mr Johnson’s promise to support the UK’s economic recovery from coronavirus with an increase in domestic shipbuilding — including eight Type 26, five Type 31 frigates and fleet solid support ships — appears...
...Catalent has partnered with AstraZeneca to manufacture its vaccine in Anagni, Italy, and is currently planning a large expansion of its production lines to churn out Johnson & Johnson’s shot in Europe....
...Britain’s new nuclear programme has lost momentum in recent years as plans to build a fleet of reactors using private finance have stalled....
...JD Sports is doubling down in the US, with the sportswear specialist announcing a big expansion of its store fleet across the pond....
...Boris Johnson welcomed the reopening of schools in England on Monday but warned it would lead to a rise in coronavirus transmission....
...minister Boris Johnson’s government to raise targets....
...The coming months will be a test of whether the EU — and von der Leyen herself — can turn the page on the vaccine missteps, and whether pharmaceutical companies including AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson...
...(FT) Johnson’s illness makes him more powerful Many British voters have discovered they were more attached to Boris Johnson than they realised: the divisive PM’s struggle with Covid-19 has left all but...
...In the US, experts think testing must be at least tripled before the economy can reopen and an army of contact-tracers recruited....
...In March, easyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren told the BBC that he was seeking loan support from the UK government....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...Crucially, Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionists, whose votes Johnson needs to pass the deal through the Commons at a special sitting on Saturday, have said they will not support it....
...It seems that CFO Philip Johnson had made optimistic noises to Panmure Gordon in early April, however, but because it was a podcast hardly anyone noticed....
...(FT) Walmart v Amazon Few retailers are coping better with the relentless rise of Amazon than the country’s largest retailer Walmart....
...Unprecedented government support: most major retailers should be able to get through the downturn with various cash control and government support measures e.g., business rates holidays, payroll support,...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
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