The Italian team serves simple and authentic pizzas to go with their innovative takes on cocktail classics, such as the gin and tonic (one of which features a spray of sea salt as an additional ingredient) and the Bloody Mary (with ingredients such as wasabi and sake), alongside drinks such as the Aperol Spritz, a Venetian cocktail-hour staple.

BBC: Paris’ burgeoning cocktail scene

He spoke as a politician looking over his shoulder and seeking to satisfy every constituency, not as commander-in-chief focused single-mindedly on winning a bloody conflict (see article).

ECONOMIST: The surge in Afghanistan

Various intellectuals, such as the veteran Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, have seized on the erosion of borders as evidence that the nation state is merely a (usually bloody) phase of development that most developed countries are now close to the end of.

ECONOMIST: Good fences

The Tribal National Volunteers (TNV), which fought a bloody guerrilla war between 1978 and 1988, has merged with the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPTF).

BBC: Tripura's tribal parties merge

She was alive, but in shock and suffering a serious (and bloody) head wound.

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In September 2000, a walk on the mount by Israel's then opposition leader, Ariel Sharon, prompted bloody clashes which turned into a six-year Palestinian intifada (uprising).

ECONOMIST: Israel

All big investors are scenario planning and asset positioning for this event, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) meanwhile has issued a "will somebody bloody well do something"- type statement.

BBC: USA, Euro: Crunch time

These frugal products are likely to disrupt established Western companies (including GE itself) by forcing them to engage in a bloody price war.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

There have been constant fears of a bloody confrontation between the hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters and the Ukrainian (and perhaps even Russian) security forces—though so far there has been remarkably little violence.

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