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...Staff at two cafés said they switched off music and television so they can hear air raid sirens....
...At the sound of the thrice-daily siren, they begin producing up to 8,000 pieces of white and decorative porcelain per day....
...Still, even when built, the underground school will only cover a fraction of the 57,000 children currently living in Kharkiv and registered at its schools....
...In his book The Siren Isles, the Italian author-academic Romolo Ercolino posited that the villas on the largest of the three islands, Gallo Lungo, built in the 1930s, were conceived by Le Corbusier....
...“Israel’s strategy of defence vis-à-vis the threat of Gaza . . . built through many years, basically failed,” said Avi Melamed, an analyst. “It’s a very significant failure of the whole system.”...
...On the back of a napkin, they developed a fully modular home that can be built 99 per cent faster than a typical home, using a third of the energy....
...Back at Izmail, the air raid siren stopped and loading operations restarted....
...Essentially, it's a distributed network of acoustic sensors that are built for air defence, for detecting airborne threats....
...Rick Stollmeyer built a software company from his California garage and realised a dream when he took it public in 2015 at a valuation approaching $1bn....
...Disappointed to discover that many of them had long been built over, he collected soil samples to scatter over alternative sites....
...Santander is opting for a narrower strategy built around online banking and auto loans....
...The fabric clung to him as sweat built up, produced by the exertion of a rock singer giving it his all. There was an obvious threat to dignity here, in the mutton-dressed-as-lamb way of things....
...The festive scene is broken up when the screech of police sirens announces the arrival of a security-heavy cavalcade that contains a popular local politician....
...If you don’t care for democracy and the principles it’s built upon, then it’s gone.”...
...For more than a decade, political violence, police sirens, street fights and demonstrations accompanied by long lines of blue-grey buses with armoured windows full of bored carabinieri waiting for action...
...China has built military bases across the South China Sea, and Chinese forces have killed Indian troops in clashes in the Himalayas....
...A few friends had recommended him to me, and then someone gave me The Sirens of Titan. I read that, then a collection of his short stories and now I’m reading Slaughterhouse-Five....
...My son Theo recently spent almost two hours there, in the semi-darkness, looking at the backlit rare jellyfish swimming in large aquariums built into the walls....
...In Homer’s Odyssey, Ulysses managed to resist the call of pesky sirens here....
...“We found him blocks away, covering his ears from the noise of police sirens. We have to minimise the horror these people are going through.”...
...Siren calls The biggest concern continues to be the weakness of Niger’s state. If terrorists exploit poverty and marginalisation, in Niger there is plenty to go round....
...Claudia Roden: ‘The first recipes I wrote down changed my life’ Lykke Li, musicianTrack: “Song to the Siren” by This Mortal Coil “This was the work of art that changed everything for me....
...He received 0.14 per cent of the company and has since built up a nine per cent stake....
...New blocks of flats and offices were being built. Now there are dead in the streets....
...The catchy melodies of Bongo Flava — a blend of Afrobeat, Swahili, English slang and American hip-hop — roll out of a radio, mixed with police sirens and the hollow sound of a train’s horn....
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