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Nicholas Hoult has insisted it is "fairly clear" he is married.

Asked if his comments mean he is married, he told People magazine: "I think it's fairly clear.".

"I think it's given me more perspective on things and a chance to escape work even more and put that into context.

"And also you kind of live your childhood through them in many ways and it brings back lots of great memories.

A State Department spokesperson declined to say whether Biden had authorised the longer-range strikes but said Russia was escalating the conflict by deploying North Korean troops.

Russia's decision to deploy thousands of North Korean troops to join the fighting changed the administration's thinking.

The US acknowledged in late October that it had seen evidence of North Korean troops in Russia for possible deployment in the Ukraine conflict.

The following week, Blinken said as many as 8,000 North Korean forces were in Kursk, where Ukrainian forces have controlled territory since August.

Even the statement made at the summit that Ukraine and Georgia would eventually join Nato was a "battle cry" to Putin, wrote Merkel, who served four terms in office.

And I want to prevent that'," she wrote in the excerpts published late on Wednesday by German weekly Die Zeit.

Merkel's memoir, entitled Freedom: Memories 1954-2021, will be published in more than 30 countries on Nov 26.

During her four consecutive terms in office, Merkel steered Germany and Europe through the global financial crisis, the euro zone debt crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic.

MOSCOW — Russian air defence forces have shot down two British Storm Shadow cruise missiles, Russia's Defence Ministry said on Nov 21 in its daily report on events over the past 24 hours.

Photos of apparent debris from a Storm Shadow missile were posted by pro-Russian military bloggers on Telegram on Nov 20.

Russia's Defence Ministry did not say on Nov 21 where the missiles were shot down.

Storm Shadow missiles are made by European missile systems company MBDA, which brings together core missile assets from France, Britain and Italy.

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM — Israeli strikes killed at least 47 people in eastern Lebanon on Thursday (Nov 21), a Lebanese official said, pressing the campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah group as a US mediator sought to advance ceasefire talks in Israel.

Bachir Khodr, governor of Lebanon's Baalbek-Hermel province, said at least 47 were killed and 22 wounded in Israeli strikes in the Baalbek region.

Hezbollah strikes have killed more than 100 people in northern Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

They include more than 70 soldiers killed in strikes in northern Israel and the Golan Heights and in combat in southern Lebanon, according to Israel.

The practice, while very lucrative for K-pop agencies, is hugely wasteful, says Kim Na-yeon of activist group Kpop4planet.

K-pop agencies emphasise that they are using recycled or eco-friendly materials and have begun issuing sustainability reports.

Other K-pop agencies SM Entertainment, opens new tab and JYP Entertainment, opens new tab did not respond to Reuters requests for comment while YG Entertainment, opens new tab referred to its sustainability report.

"Most K-pop fans are young, they're the future generation in their teens or 20s who will be directly affected by a climate crisis," said Kim Na-yeon.

Speaking to the Chinese newspaper, many customers expressed their dejection at the store's closure.

A regular customer Guo, who's in his 70s, said: "Overseas Emporium has a long history.

Another customer Cai, who is in his 60s, had been a customer since the 70s when Overseas Emporium first opened.

Another commenter attributed the closure to the conveniences of online shopping: "This what happens when everyone does online shopping.

Russia, which invaded Ukraine in February 2022, did not immediately comment on the air force statement.

The Russian missile attack targeted enterprises and critical infrastructure in the central-eastern city of Dnipro, the air force said.

Russia also fired a Kinzhal hypersonic missile and seven Kh-101 cruise missiles, six of which were shot down, the Ukrainian air force said.

Defense Express, a Ukrainian defence consultancy, asked whether the United States, Kyiv's main international ally, had been informed about the missile launch ahead of time.

LONDON — John Prescott, the pugnacious deputy prime minister to Britain's Tony Blair during his 10 years in government, has died aged 86 after a battle with Alzheimer's, his family said on Thursday (Nov 21).

"There was no one quite like him in British politics," Blair told BBC radio.

Prescott told the Guardian newspaper in 2018 he considered it his greatest achievement.

"I've never worked with anyone in politics - on my side of the pond or his - quite like John Prescott," Gore said.

Ace Chew discovered about five green lines on the screen of his Samsung Note 20 Ultra early this year, around three years after he purchased it.

He added that he knew others, all Samsung users, who faced similar issues with their mobile phones.

Besides green lines, some consumers also reported pink or white ones appearing across their screens, said Case president Melvin Yong.

Consumers generally complained that the vertical green lines appeared across screens after they updated their mobile phones' software, said Yong.