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– You meet people on the Mille Miglia, amid the entrants chowing down on seconds of fennel pesto pasta, the children in tiny little villages begging for burnouts, and pretty underwear models like David Gandy preening in million-dollar roadsters. Jaguar chief designer Ian Callum, part of Jaguar’s nine-car factory heritage team, is not an English underwear model. He’s a Scot whose pen strokes—the F-type, XJ, and all modern Jags since
– You meet people on the Mille Miglia, amid the entrants chowing down on seconds of fennel pesto pasta, the children in tiny little villages begging for burnouts, and pretty underwear models like David Gandy preening in million-dollar roadsters. Jaguar chief designer Ian Callum, part of Jaguar’s nine-car factory heritage team, is not an English underwear model. He’s a Scot whose pen strokes—the F-type, XJ, and all modern Jags since
By Mohammed Ghobari CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi-led air strikes killed at least 80 people near Yemen’s border with Saudi Arabia and in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday, residents said, the deadliest day of bombing in over two months of war in Yemen. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized Sanaa last September and then thrust into central and south Yemen. Seeing the Houthi advance as a bridgehead for Iranian influence in the region,
By Mohammed Ghobari CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi-led air strikes killed at least 80 people near Yemen’s border with Saudi Arabia and in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday, residents said, the deadliest day of bombing in over two months of war in Yemen. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized Sanaa last September and then thrust into central and south Yemen. Seeing the Houthi advance as a bridgehead for Iranian influence in the region,
By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth set in motion Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans for a European Union membership referendum on Wednesday as he faced pressure to explain when it will be held and what changes to the EU he wants beforehand. Cameron, who says he would prefer to stay inside a reformed EU but isn’t “ruling anything out” if it fails to change, was re-elected on
The United States and two key Asian allies discussed how to increase pressure on North Korea to halt its nuclear program and will urge China to help bring Pyongyang back to the negotiating table, officials said. The talks in Seoul follows a test of what the North said was a submarine-launched ballistic missile earlier this month, which if true, could mean progress in the reclusive state’s military capabilities. “We held
By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth set in motion Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans for a European Union membership referendum on Wednesday as he faced pressure to explain when it will be held and what changes to the EU he wants beforehand. Cameron, who says he would prefer to stay inside a reformed EU but isn’t “ruling anything out” if it fails to change, was re-elected on
The United States and two key Asian allies discussed how to increase pressure on North Korea to halt its nuclear program and will urge China to help bring Pyongyang back to the negotiating table, officials said. The talks in Seoul follows a test of what the North said was a submarine-launched ballistic missile earlier this month, which if true, could mean progress in the reclusive state’s military capabilities. “We held
By Al-Zaquan Amer Hamzah KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Twelve Malaysian police officials have been held on suspicion of links to people-smuggling camps where authorities have uncovered nearly 140 graves believed to hold the bodies of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, a government minister said on Wednesday. Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar was speaking the day after police forensic teams began exhuming bodies from the graves, discovered around 28
By Al-Zaquan Amer Hamzah KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Twelve Malaysian police officials have been held on suspicion of links to people-smuggling camps where authorities have uncovered nearly 140 graves believed to hold the bodies of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, a government minister said on Wednesday. Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar was speaking the day after police forensic teams began exhuming bodies from the graves, discovered around 28
