![]() ![]() The suspected Ukrainian drone strike came after saboteurs derailed two Russian freight trains and destroyed power cables with explosive devices in a matter of days.Īnd today, Russia's FSB security service said it had arrested members of a Ukrainian sabotage network planning a series of attacks in Russian-occupied Crimea, Russian news agencies reported. This morning there were unconfirmed reports that people were being evacuated from homes near the inferno, some hours after the raging fire started.Ī report said Russian special services were at the scene. The bridge, a key lifeline for the Kremlin's grip on the peninsula, has been repaired after a sabotage attack on 8 October 2022. The strike, the latest in a rising tide of apparent attacks by Ukraine on Russian territory, was only six miles from the Kerch Bridge built by Vladimir Putin linking Krasnodar region to Crimea, which he annexed in 2014. ![]() A giant explosion hit an oil storage depot close to the key bridge linking Russia to annexed peninsula Crimea ![]()
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Landor elicits the help of a young, outsider cadet named Edgar Allen Poe, and the two unlikely duo start to unravel the mysteries of the murders and discover that no one is at all how they appear.Īlthough not a true story about Poe, The Pale Blue Eye does depict Poe as a cadet at West Point, which is historically accurate. ![]() ![]() The Pale Blue Eye follows Landor as he investigates a string of murders happening to cadets at West Point Academy. The Pale Blue Eye is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Louis Bayard starring Christian Bale as Augustus Landor and Harry Melling as none other than Edgar Allen Poe himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The album’s release has been trailed with a new song, The Goal, in which Cohen confronts his mortality: “Settling at last / Accounts of the soul / This for the trash / That paid in full. 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Emboldened by her challenge of never being able to best her, Balgo tells her to not underestimate him, only to be swiftly incapacitated by a strike to the jaw. Kicking Balgo away, Noel notes that he is now able to finish his sentences even after being kicked by her and throws a pipe at him, which he frantically dodges, before brushing off his claim that it could have hit someone by stating that if he could dodge it, even an elderly man could. As Noel Niihashi walks down the streets of London in her school uniform while musing on how uniforms tell others who she is, she comes across Osushi sitting on the ground and prepares to give him a dog treat, only to be accosted by Balgo Parks, who wishes to see her panties as usual. ![]() ![]() ![]() Later, Wormold acquires a secretary called Beatrice, who seems somehow to be involved in the spying, or at least knows of it she is a pleasant woman whom he gets on well with. There is a vaguely frightening sort of villainous character called Captain Segura, who has something or other made of human skin he is interested in Wormold’s daughter, Milly.Ĭaptain Segura and Wormold play draughts with one another. ![]() Wormold has a friend called Dr Hasselbacher, who seems innocuous. Later one of them, a pilot called Raul, is killed in an accident, and this seems to be a fact, so that is a bit strange, if the man didn’t really exist. It seems like Wormold is some sort of secret agent and he sends regular reports to somebody/somewhere or other about his sub-agents.Īt one point it seems as though these sub-agents are fictitious, but I don’t really know whether they are or not. I found the book somewhat boring at first, and would only have given it three stars, but it improved towards the end. ![]() I find some of Greene’s books hard to fully comprehend, and this is one of them. This book is about a British subject named Wormold living in Havana he makes his living selling vacuum cleaners, his wife is dead and he has a daughter called Milly. ![]() |