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The group had been badly damaged by the assassinations, but the sense of celebration in the Hezbollah-dominated areas of Beirut "cannot be dismissed as insincere", said David Wood, a Lebanon analyst with Crisis Group.

Khan has previously dismissed any thought his wife might have her own political ambitions - “she only conveys my messages,” he said in a statement attributed to him on his X account.

Cooper, meanwhile, was dismissed after just 157 days in the job.

When critics dismiss “Ironic” as made up of a failed set of literal opposites, they miss the point: irony is a rhetorical whirlwind that disrupts language and undermines normativity.

In the ruling, tribunal judge Harriet Morgan dismissed Grint's appeal and said the money "derived substantially the whole of its value from the activities of Mr Grint", which was "otherwise realised" as income.