IAN BIRRELL: The Russians have bombed Mariupol back to Middle Ages
Like so many others, the family had discounted the threat of Russian invasion. Then, as fighting began on the city’s outskirts, they listened to civic leaders telling them to stay calm and joined communal efforts to distribute food and clothing to the frontline.
Instead of holding a public ceremony with lawmakers from both parties – showcasing the bipartisanship that Biden had cited in an Oval Office address on Friday evening – the president signed the legislation in private in a reflection of the tight deadline facing the nation’s leaders.
The government has announced that the owner of Chelsea FC will also be prohibited from transactions with UK individuals and businesses.
The government could still grant him a licence to sell the club, but will need to be assured that he will not benefit financially and any proceeds would remain frozen.
Meyer, who was awarded an honorary MBE in 2011 and advised David Cameron’s government, claimed she was unable to travel to court from her home in Switzerland due to having the eye condition conjunctivitis and being unjabbed.
For the next 16 days, Kristina, her husband, and son stayed at the school with 162 others, including 52 children, trapped at the heart of the lethal Russian assault on a port that Putin tried – and failed – to capture eight years ago.
She has admitted disliking the superficiality of LA, saying: ‘I have a lot of friends who were brought up in the UK like me [who] are working in LA as actors. They’re stuck in this place where everyone is so far up your a**e.’
The OA is difficult to describe, because it sews a handful of different genres into its own ethereal plane. The OA is surreal at times. Yet instead of floating images gently knocking against each other, the sci-fi here is delivered with the grounded assuredness of a Christopher Nolan movie. It moves with the same relentless force.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats are deeply conflicted about the food aid requirements that President Joe Biden negotiated as part of the debt ceiling deal, fearing damage has been done to safety net programs that will be difficult to unravel in the years ahead as Republicans demand further cuts.
‘It was so scary. When the whole building is shaking and you have your child next to you and you don’t know if the next shell will land on your building… This is the terrible experience we all went through,’ she says.
‘I think Oscar was feeling a bit hard done by, but we’re very good friends now,’ says Humphries, 88.
‘There had been moments when he felt scarred, I think, after his mother and I separated.’ Oscar said in 2017 he was dropping his famous surname because he was so angry.
The 72,000-student Davis School District north of Salt Lake City removed the Bible from its elementary and middle schools while keeping it in high schools after a committee reviewed the scripture in response to a parental complaint.
The OA comes from longtime creative team Brit Marling (who also stars as Prairie) and Zal Batmanglij. The show feels like the product of buzzing minds excitedly throwing out idea after idea. The OA is as intense as it is dense, exploring the human condition, mortality, the afterlife and… the multiverse.
Prairie has scars on her back and experiences traumatic episodes, but won’t burden her adopted parents with her story. Instead, she takes to the internet, finding like-minded friends via the medium of YouTube.
It comes as French authorities today they have seized a luxury superyacht belonging to a company linked to Igor Sechin (pictured here with Putin in August last year), the chief executive of Russian energy giant Rosneft and a close confidant of Putin
Seven months later, the boat he named Awakin – “like a boat waking someone” – was found partially submerged off an island west of Sitka in a tragedy that left Robidou and four customers dead or lost at sea and put a spotlight on the safety of the region’s vibrant charter fishing industry.
Pictures taken today show the massive boat, which has a 25-meter swimming pool, surrounded by scaffolding and waterproof covering as it sits in the dry dock of Blohm Voss Dock; where it has been since late October for a refitting job.
“There is no question that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment. But there is a difference between material that is `obscene´ in the vernacular, and material that is `obscene´ under the law,” Parker said.
So far Britain has banned Russian ships and aircraft from the UK, imposed restrictions on a number of Russian banks, successfully lobbied for Russia’s removal from the Swift banking system, and personally sanctioned at least five oligarchs with known links to the Kremlin.
Surprisingly, the ending of season 2 almost works as a finale for the whole series. Still, Marling and Batmanglij have the real conclusion tucked away somewhere. Let’s pray they have a chance to bring season 3 to the screen. Someone please hop dimensions and rescue this show from the realm of canceled TV.
