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...Only Manuel Gago’s deep wail is like a call to prayer. Only the guttural Carmina Cortes remonstrates like the doomed seer Cassandra....
...Riding with Pedro Layan Collao and Victor Manuel Sharp Becerra can be arranged through the relevant hotels. Photographs: Martin Bernetti/AFP; Hugo Infante/Polaris/Eyevine; Dave Yoder/Corbis; AFP/Getty...
...José Manuel Barroso, the centre-right Portuguese leader who has served as European Commission president since 2004, seems strongly placed to secure a second five-year term....
...José Manuel Barroso’s campaign for a second term as European Commission president is coming along nicely....
...Martin Koopmann of Berlin’s DGAP foreign affairs think-tank says Ms Merkel seeks a wide range of allies....
...For all Mr Sarkozy’s idiosyncrasies, José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain’s socialist prime minister, thinks his conservative neighbour has what it takes to help France “recover its self-esteem”....
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