British writer Len Deighton, who has died at 97, created the sardonic working-class spy played by Michael Caine in the 1965 Cold War film “The Ipcress File”.Deighton “passed away peacefully on Sunday”, his literary agent said, calling him “one of the greatest spy and thriller writers of the twentieth century”.Deighton’s thick-bespectacled agent provided an antidote …
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NATO allies and other Western nations pushed back Monday on US President Donald Trump’s demand that military alliance members help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the critical conduit for crude oil Iran has effectively closed.UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said London was working with allies to craft a “viable” plan to reopen the strategic waterway …
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Here are the latest events in the Middle East war:- Blasts in Tehran -Explosions hit the Iranian capital on Monday, an AFP journalist reported, hours after Israel said it conducted large-scale overnight strikes. The blasts were heard in central Tehran as air defence systems were activated, the journalist said. It was not immediately clear what was …
As Hollywood grapples with existential questions and fickle audiences, one of its top stars, Ryan Gosling, has a simple credo.”In this stage of my life, if I’m going to make films, I want it to be a film that is worth going to the theatre to see,” the Canadian actor told journalists in Paris.The comment …
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The United States struggled to another major sporting victory over border rival Canada on Friday to reach the World Baseball Classic semi-finals, where the Americans will face the unbeaten Dominican Republic.Alex Bregman hit a two-run single and David Bednar thwarted a seventh-inning threat as the US team of Major League Baseball stars edged Canada 5-3 …
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Canadian, German and Norwegian leaders on Friday reaffirmed their commitment to Arctic security, which has come under strain, while visiting troops at a large NATO exercise.”We are fully prepared, individually and collectively, to defend the Arctic and the High North,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told a press conference in Bardufoss, a military town located …
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Canadian, German and Norwegian leaders are meeting in the Norwegian Arctic on Friday to discuss the region’s fragile security situation, against the backdrop of a large NATO exercise.”We will… not allow Moscow to test NATO on its eastern flank and here in the north,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told a press conference at the rocket …
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At a massive shipyard in North Vancouver, Canadian workers grind metal beams for a powerful new icebreaker crucial to cementing the country’s presence in the increasingly contested Arctic.Icebreakers are specialized, expensive vessels able to navigate in the frozen far north.And “this is the crown jewel,” Eddie Schehr, vice president of production at the Seaspan shipyard, …
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World number one Aryna Sabalenka kept her bid for a first Indian Wells title on track, holding off Canadian teen Victoria Mboko 7-6 (7/0), 6-4 to reach the semi-finals on Thursday.Sabalenka had beaten Mboko in the fourth round of the Australian Open in January in a match the 19-year-old called “an eye-opener.”This time around, Mboko, …
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Unbeaten Italy advanced to the World Baseball Classic quarter-finals by routing Mexico 9-1 on Wednesday, allowing the fancied collection of United States stars into the last eight as well.A night after the Italians delivered a stunning upset of the Americans to leave them on the brink of elimination, they overwhelmed Mexico to win Pool B …
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