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...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...“There are a lot of conspiracy theories, which I’ve heard my whole life,” says Janie Hendrix, the adopted daughter of Jimi’s father Al Hendrix following his marriage to her mother in 1966, when she was five...
...Independent hawkers are in on the fun too: there’s even a new family-owned bakery in town, Buns from Home, that’s dedicated almost entirely to buns — chocolate, coconut, pistachio et al....
...It was the titular piece in the Royal Academy show that marked Michael Armitage as a major force in painting....
...Trump et al v....
...In this year’s final, it’s Manchester City versus London’s Chelsea, Pep Guardiola against rival top manager Thomas Tuchel; Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Abu Dhabi royal, against Russian-Israeli...
...And almost as royal....
...MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman , by Ben Hubbard, William Collins, RRP£20, 384 pages Malise Ruthven is the author of ‘L’Arabie des Saoud: Wahhabisme, violence et corruption’ (La fabrique)...
...The 11th-century Arabic historian al-Bakri described its royal palace as a complex of domed structures encircled by a wall, where a bejewelled king received his people (men with clean-shaven faces, women...
...The co-founder of Blenheim Chalcot, an investment firm, Badale is the biggest shareholder in the Rajasthan Royals....
...It would be deeply ironic if the streaming services — Netflix, Amazon Prime et al — should be making lockdown millions from our finest acting, producing, writing and directing talent, while the very arts...
...National interest in food security has played second fiddle to laissez-faire economics: “Let consumers decide,” or, as Lang puts it, “Leave it to Tesco et al.”...
...Kaellgren advised him to embark on a degree in the early 1990s at the Royal College of Art in London, which ran a masters programme at the V&A in history of design....
...Some of my favourite TV shows — Atlanta, Peaky Blinders and Derry Girls — rely on a strong sense of time and place....
...(FT, Al Jazeera) Philippine volcano erupts A volcano has erupted in the Philippines, disrupting hundreds of flights and forcing schools and the stock exchange to shut....
...In October, the city’s Al Bustan Palace, pictured below, reopened after a lavish 18-month renovation, and in January, the Royal Opera House Muscat will launch a major new display space with an exhibition...
...In a city that can sustain shows like the V&A’s recent Opera: Passion, Power and Politics, which had a working replica of a baroque theatre, it is easy to forget how hard it is for venerable institutions...
...Granny H has been proudly posting pics on Twitter, alongside tweets pushing her pro-Brexit and sometimes conservative views (backing a new Royal Yacht, retweeting Fox News stories, et al)....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Imperium, a two-part adaptation of Robert Harris’s Cicero novels, is yet to premiere, but here are the last two of the dramas by Shakespeare et al....
...northern city of Mosul because of the government’s military operation to retake the city from Isis, wait for food aid at al-Khazar camp in the village of Hasan Sham, 40km east of Arbil....
...Yet he rarely goes easy on African despots — from Omar al-Bashir of Sudan to Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe....
...American universities fill the Education City site....
...My style icon is Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani....
...Gallery, then home to Bacon, Pollock, Henry Moore et al, as saying, “I don’t collect art, I collect money.”...
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