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...Asked whether the investment screening agreement could harm Mexico-China business relations, Finance Minister Rogelio Ramírez de la O was blunt....
...Keep an eye out for the region’s answer to Father Christmas, La Tante Arie, a local legend thought to be a reincarnation of charitable medieval countess Henriette de Montbéliard....
...The Autorité des Marchés Financiers levied a record €75mn fine against H2O last year as punishment for “serious” rule breaches related to the illiquid investments while banning the firm’s co-founder Bruno...
...Here, he has administered facelifts to the 19th-century Arc de Triomphe (a brushed-steel internal staircase was integrated into one of the columns) and the 3,000-year-old Luxor Obelisk in Place de la Concorde...
...two leather jackets worn by The Edge for U2’s residency in Las Vegas....
...I’d rush across the Pont des Arts at sunset sending a WhatsApp. But the almost constant sense of wellbeing I got from the food hasn’t worn off....
...Amanda Benson Studio Gris vase, POA Giorgio Armani wool vest, £740, and silk twill shirt, £1,300. Suzanne Kalan gold, opal and diamond ring, £8,080, harrods.com....
...De Vusser, a Belgian, will be the first European to run Bain in its 50-year history....
...Amanda Wakeley, fashion designer I bought a pair of black Tibetan lambswool-covered beech chairs by the Czech designer Jindrich Halabala....
...One day we head to the Monde des Arts de la Parure, a museum in the medina, in order “to sharpen senses and hone our powers of observation and description”....
...TAG Heuer connects with its past At TAG Heuer they’re turning the dial on the time machine two years further back to 1968 and the Carrera Dato, which shifted the date window from three o’clock to nine o...
...I was reminded of women such as Inès de la Fressange, Kim Basinger, Sade and other ’80s muses who exuded confidence and a smoky, seductive charm....
...It’s a realm still dominated by the big names: Taittinger Comtes de Champagne, Pol Roger Winston Churchill, Cristal, Krug, Bollinger La Grande Année and Dom Pérignon are among the most-traded cuvées....
...Outgoing CEO Benoît de la Fouchardiere will join the board of Perenco Group and become chief executive of affiliate Dixstone....
...Dates to be announced; further information here soon August Events La Madonna della Neve Every August 5, Rome celebrates La Madonna della Neve (Our Lady of the Snows) by recreating a miraculous summer...
...In the sympathetic role of Catherine, soprano Amanda Woodbury is superb, particularly in conveying the queen’s reversals of fortune at the judicial synod....
...Original Travel has a new 13-day road trip that includes the Picos de Europa National Park, Ribadeo, the beaches and historic old town of La Coruña and three nights in Santiago de Compostela....
...The last thing I bought and loved was a painting by João Gabriel from a gallery in Los Angeles called O-Town House. Gabriel is a Portuguese artist and his work is exquisite....
...“I’m obsessed with Claire’s illustration, it’s so uplifting,” says O’Sullivan of the de Quénetain fabrics....
...You can find everything from old Cartier lighters to the De Sede sofa and Christofle cutlery at Serpent à Plume....
...It was also a sort of reinvention and reconfiguration of his 1905-06 work “Le Bonheur de Vivre”, in which a circle of dancers is painted in the background....
...Hôtel de la Boétie opened last month on Rue la Boétie, a block and a half off the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement – a very tony address, where the hotel’s excellent value (rates start at €250) marks...
...I saw a McDonald’s on the other side of the Place de la Gare and, moth-like, was drawn to its warm red-yellow glow. It was closed....
...la Renta) and, most starrily, “the Carters”....
...Far from its flagship store on the Champs-Élysées, PSG has opened a shop on London’s Oxford Street, adding to sites in Doha, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Seoul, Miami and Las Vegas....
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