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"It's depressing," Stuart Towers, landlord of the Market Tavern pub told Reuters. "We were all looking forward to opening Saturday and the next thing you know that's it. What do we do now?"And Leicester isn't the only UK city.
The city's lockdown will affect almost 4,000 retailers, 239 restaurants, 182 pubs, 26 hotels and five cinemas, according to real estate adviser Altus Group. Many businesses would have been preparing to open on Saturday for the first time since March.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. - Max PlanckI've been at the Russia business for a while - since the days of Konstantin Chernenko in fact. As I've related elsewhere it was the summer of 1987 when I began to realise that things were really changing. Sometime around then I was invited to Massey College to debate with a Soviet diplomat the proposition that perestroyka meant the end of Marxism-Leninism; which, of course, it did. While I saw changes coming and was listened to seriously by my superiors in the Department of National Defence (DND) there were plenty of people who said that change was impossible. One senior guy from Foreign Affairs said his experience in Algeria showed him these regimes could never change and soon after he caused a paper to be produced that argued that the threat of nuclear war over Africa was very high. (!) The last words a local professor said to me was that change was impossible. I used to, when I gave presentations, ask the audience when they thought things were really changing in the USSR. Most of them would say when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. Well, I would say, I realized it back then; just think how much farther along I am on the curve.
Johnson, whose great-grandfather was Jewish, reflected on his time at an Israeli kibbutz as a teenager and called himself a "life-long friend, admirer and supporter of Israel."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long promised to extend Israeli sovereignty to parts of the West Bank; the Trump administration's support and the coalition agreement he struck with Benny Gantz have given a strong boost to those plans.
Netanyahu has set 1 July as the date from which he would start the process to take over roughly 30 percent of the West Bank. However, Benny Gantz, the alternate prime minister who supports the idea, cast uncertainty on the timeframe when he called on Monday for a delay to deal with the coronavirus pandemic first.
Johnson became the latest foreign leader to oppose Netanyahu's plans, after the United Nations, Russia, China and the European Union have all voiced concerns that it will lead to a spike in violence in the region and kill the peace process. Palestinians have condemned the idea, with Gaza rules Hamas calling it an effective declaration of war.
Palestinians leaders have called for protests on Wednesday in the Jordan Valley, the Gaza Strip and in Ramallah, the West Bank seat of the Palestinian Authority.
Comment: The Times has wiggled all over this story making claims and insinuations, a standard tactic when it comes to 'anything Trump'. National security advisor Robert O'Brien provided some clarification: See also: