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Bull Session: Maybe Lamborghini Might Build a Urus Superveloce

– We like to imagine Stephan Winkelmann waking up in the morning in his impeccably tailored pajamas, sitting up thoughtfully in bed, sipping an espresso handed to him by a lovely signora, and thinking to himself, “What new Lamborghinis can I think up today and use to play it coy with those off-the-rack schmoes in the press corps?” – To wit, in an interview with Autocar, the Lambo honcho said

Turkey stages first airstrikes on Islamic State in Syria, rounds up Kurds

By Orhan Coskun and Dasha Afanasieva ANKARA/ELBEYLI, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish warplanes pounded Islamic State targets in Syria for the first time on Friday, with President Tayyip Erdogan promising more decisive action against both the jihadists and Kurdish militants at home. The air strikes, which followed a phone conversation between Erdogan and U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday, were accompanied by a series of police raids across Turkey to detain

Al Qaeda operational commander killed in U.S. air strike: Pentagon

A U.S. air strike in Afghanistan has killed a high-ranking al Qaeda operational commander, the U.S. military said on Friday. The U.S. military named the target of the strike as Abu Khalil al-Sudani, saying he was killed in a July 11 strike in the Bermal district of Afghanistan’s Paktika province. In a statement, it said he was head of al Qaeda “suicide and explosives operations” and was linked to plots