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...UK defence secretary Grant Shapps last month highlighted concerns about Iranian ships loitering off Yemen....
...But Sir John Armitt, chair of the National Infrastructure Commission, told the Financial Times that developers would not fund the tunnel needed to connect Euston to the next HS2 terminus in west London....
...Russian air force bases in the Crimea also remain intact — another reason western provision of F-16 fighter jets remains a high priority for Kyiv....
...Billionaire investor John Paulson will host a Florida fundraiser for Donald Trump next month, as the former president tries to match Joe Biden’s money operation and pay for a growing pile of legal bills...
...planet . . . it’s so, almost extraterrestrial, to think about,” former US secretary of state John Kerry, a Davos regular, told the conference last year....
...“The ability to deploy hundreds of crew to make ready one of the world’s most complex aircraft carriers within a week is testament to the skill and ability of the Royal Navy,” said defence secretary Grant...
...As University of East Anglia politics professor John Street tells me, we have a stronger party system in the UK....
...President John F Kennedy asked his National Security Council in January 1963, “Why should we have in Europe supplies adequate to fight for ninety days when the European forces around our troops have only...
...Major General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, had blamed the communications breakdown in part on Austin’s chief of staff Kelly Magsamen, who was out for much of last week with the flu....
...It added that the decision by Kemi Badenoch, the UK’s business and trade secretary, breached the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended three decades of conflict in the region....
...The last time US and UK elections took place within a few weeks of each other was in 1964, at the height of the cold war and after the assassination of John F Kennedy....
...This week’s themes are German carmakers (Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche), online disrupters (Deliveroo, Moonpig and HelloFresh), British retail darling of the middle classes John Lewis and plastic...
...Weak enforcement (Kelly points out that hundreds of thousands are paid below the legal minimum in the UK) only serves to undermine law-abiding companies....
...Starting with his vice-president, we can add his chief of staff, John Kelly, both his defence secretaries, Jim Mattis and Mark Esper, his national security adviser, John Bolton, his first secretary of state...
...Kennedy, who is the nephew of the late former president John F Kennedy, has drawn criticism for espousing a number of conspiracy theories, most recently when a tape emerged of him claiming that Covid-19...
...Kennedy, who is the son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy and nephew of the former president John F Kennedy, is known for his scepticism towards vaccines and his questioning of the US’s support for Ukraine...
...John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser and the former US ambassador to the UN under George W Bush, has publicly criticised him, as have Mark Esper, his former defence secretary, and John Kelly...
...They were a fixture in the wardrobes of young boys and girls (see Shirley Temple and, later, a young John F Kennedy Jr)....
...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.”...
...That is partly down to his age — at 80, he is some 34 years older than John F Kennedy was when the only other Catholic US president visited Ireland in 1963 — and is partly just the nature of diasporas, as...
...Additional reporting by John Reed in Jerusalem and Henry Foy in Brussels...
...Could John F Kennedy have engineered a peaceful solution to the Cuban missile crisis, with Fox News on in the background 24 hours a day?...
...Berlin marks the 60th anniversary of US president John F Kennedy’s ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech. A decision is expected on how to raise the minimum wage....
...There are plenty of counterfactuals here (not only Biden and Obama, but also John F Kennedy and Harry Truman)....
...And even in this day and age, the US Treasury secretary doing a bit of gleeful insider trading is a tad implausible....
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