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Bottle of 'most-sought after Scotch whisky' to come under hammer at Sotheby's in London next month

A bottle of what is being called “the most-sought after Scotch whisky” is set to be auctioned next month at Sotheby's in London LONDON -- A bottle of “the most -sought -after Scotch whisky ” is set to go up for auction next month , with an estimated price of up to 1.2 million pounds ($1.4 million), the auction house Sotheby's said Thursday. It said the 96-year-old bottle of single malt from distiller Macallan — The Macallan Adami 1926 — will come under the hammer in London on Nov. 18, with a price estimate above 750,000 pounds. Advance bidding will begin Nov. 1. A version of The Macallan 1926 was sold by Sotheby's in 2019 for 1.5 million pounds, a record for any bottle of wine or spirit. The appearance of three different bottle variations of the whisky at auctions in 2018 and 2019 led to the record being broken three times. “The Macallan 1926 is the one whisky that every auctioneer wants to sell and every collector wants to own,” said Jonny Fowle, Sotheby’s global head ...

Sending F-16s to Ukraine in fight against Russia would take 'months and months': Blinken

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday cautioned that deliveries of the F-16s that Ukraine has long sought in its fight against Russia could take "months and months" Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday cautioned that deliveries of the F-16s that Ukraine has long sought in its fight against Russia could take " months and months " once it's determined the fight er jets are appropriate, but America's support hasn't wavered. In an interview on CNN, America's top diplomat defended U.S. assistance to Ukraine so far, insisting Kyiv had consistently been given the equipment it needs to try and repel Russia's invasion. "At every step along the way, in fact, going back before the Russian aggression when we saw the storm rising ... we made sure, going back to Labor Day before the war, Christmas before the war, that they started to get in their hands the equipment they would need if the Russians went forward," Blinken told CNN...