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Business hadn’t increased at the range in recent days, he said; the usual customers were still coming, of course, but there hadn’t been an uptick in those seeking to learn to shoot ahead of a presumed Russian attack.

Time Magazine is disputing US President Donald Trump's account of how he rejected a request for an interview and photo shoot ahead of its Person of the Year issue.

When reporters asked Kerry and Zarif about Yemen during a brief photo shoot ahead of the talks, both men declined to answer.

"It's impossible to say what that disruption will be but we want to shoot ahead of the duck, to use the Finnish phrase."

“It’s impossible to say what that disruption will be but we want to shoot ahead of the duck, to use the Finnish phrase.”