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...Brigety on Thursday said South Africa had placed arms on the Lady R, a vessel owned by a Russian fleet company, in December....
...In his native South Africa, the former policeman had been involved, by his own account, in some shady operations as the country transitioned from apartheid....
...Ramaphosa said on Sunday the inquiry into the Lady R confirmed that the vessel had supplied materiel to South Africa’s armed forces....
...[but] there are shady deals done,” the 42 year old said....
...The 89-metre Here Comes The Sun is trailed by U-81, an 80.1-metre converted former oil and gas supply vessel....
...The ballad of Bruno and Lars In the final days of 2018, Lars Windhorst’s superyacht criss-crossed the Caribbean, then nestled alongside dozens of other enormous vessels assembled for New Year’s Eve on the...
...Ramaphosa’s government lobbied US officials and lawmakers to let South Africa remain in Agoa and mounted an investigation that concluded that arms had not been found on the Lady R, a Russian transport vessel...
...Reuben Brigety, US ambassador to South Africa, told local media on Thursday that the US believed weapons and ammunition were loaded on to the Lady R, a Russian vessel under sanctions that docked at Simon...
...Accused of sleeping with the Germans, its leading lady, Arletty, declared: “My heart belongs to France but my arse to the whole bloody world.”...
...Panama has been working to shake off its reputation as a global haven for shady money and is burnishing its environmental credentials....
...South Africa’s defence minister said last year that the Lady R had delivered a consignment for the country’s military, but it did not disclose what may have then been loaded on to the vessel before its return...
...A political furore has broken out in South Korea over a $2,000 Dior handbag gifted to its first lady....
...The government is yet to see concrete proof for the US claim regarding the vessel, Ramaphosa’s spokesperson said this week....
...The people who have inspired Bridges include some admired from afar, such as former first lady Michelle Obama, and friends such as writer Maya Angelou. One name, though, comes at the top of the list....
...The Tupaiú, one of three vessels belonging to the Amazon cruise company Kaiara, is a wooden-hulled yacht built in Manaus in 1987, sleeping a maximum of eight, whose wood-panelled cabins and simple comforts...
...route FYI: Keep an eye out for the “Painted Ladies”, a cluster of vividly coloured, early-20th-century Queen Anne-style houses on the south side of West 10th Avenue, which were saved from redevelopment...
...“For a foreigner to come and sail in a raft, boat or any other kind of vessel would be absolute suicide,” an Iraqi says....
...Years earlier, the investment firm of a Kazakh billionaire to which Windhorst owed money had taken over the vessel, quietly leasing it back to him....
...In the state closet — historically one of the most private spaces in the house — the British artist Ndidi Ekubia has pushed the craft of metal-raising to its limits, with a series of silver vessels with...
...the basis of a choice made by private vessels” as long as there is no “effective, fair and permanent burden sharing mechanism” at EU level....
...The formation of coral and fish was incredible. And the best souvenir I’ve brought home is a painting titled Old Lady from Besao by Waling Gorospe....
...Every vista begs for a pair of bonneted ladies in crinolines, or a grubby old sailor with a clay pipe wedged in his beard....
...the victim passes on his dying message, and Lady Frankie Derwent (Lucy Boynton), who returns to Wales having grown weary of her high-society life in London....
...As summer approaches, the mere passing thought of a cool tiled floor and a shady corner in a whitewashed Mediterranean villa has me chomping at the bit....
...One example involves the Lady Augusta, a general cargo ship which satellite photographs show is stranded in the occupied city of Mariupol, where it docked before the outbreak of war to pick up 6,500 tonnes...
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