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...An artist-designed amusement park whose attractions include a merry-go-round by Keith Haring and a chair swing ride by Kenny Scharf seems like an awfully big thing to slip through the cracks....
...Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and alto saxophonist Vincent Herring are in sparkling form, and Peter and Kenny Washington on bass and drums deliver the bounce of well-crafted beats....
...Kenny Alexander: too canny for Killie?...
...British music company, which has raised almost £1bn to buy song rights, has added 4,400 to its catalogue as part of the takeover, including hits by One Direction, Shawn Mendes, My Morning Jacket and St Vincent...
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...“We do not expect African governments to bow down to US pressure to keep Chinese telecoms players out of any potential 5G rollouts or 4G network upgrades,” said Kenny Liew at Fitch Solutions....
...Enda Kenny has formally stepped down after six years as Ireland’s prime minister ahead of the expected elevation on Wednesday of Leo Varadkar to the job....
...Mr Kenny has been Irish prime minister for six years....
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...Mr Kenny was known, a little patronisingly, as “the accidental Taoiseach”....
...In his resignation announcement, Mr Kenny said he wanted to see the succession race completed by June 2....
...Simon Coveney, who was Mr Varadkar’s rival in the battle to succeed Mr Kenny last month, is appointed foreign minister....
...Mr Kenny’s departure from the leadership of Fine Gael has been almost inevitable since he led the party to a disastrous election performance in February 2016....
...Mr Varadkar, 38, beat Simon Coveney, his only rival on Friday for the job of succeeding Enda Kenny, who led the centre-right party for 15 years and will step down this month after six years as Taoiseach....
...Mr Kenny will step down as Taoiseach when his successor has been chosen by the party, probably in early June. Mr Noonan was one of his closest associates in Fine Gael and in politics....
...Mr Kenny’s future has dominated political life in Dublin to the exclusion of almost every other issue over the past few days....
...Mr Kenny met Ms Merkel in the days after the vote but his advocacy of a “special case” for Ireland appeared to fall on deaf ears....
...Yet the fin-de-regime aura around Mr Kenny is inescapable....
...Nevertheless, Mr Kenny’s handling of the scandal has hit the party’s popularity....
...These three camps make up the electoral college that will select a leader on June 2 to replace Enda Kenny, who is retiring after 15 years as head of Fine Gael and six as Taoiseach....
...Enda Kenny, the Irish Taoiseach, spoke with Mrs May on Sunday to express Dublin’s concerns....
...“I am confident that the EU will not bring us back to a border of division,” Mr Kenny said....
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