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...After 9/11, Putin was the first foreign leader to phone his US counterpart, George W Bush, to express his condolences....
...The Tate Britain show features many of Sargent’s portraits of men dressed, including “W Graham Robertson” (1894)....
...Most urgently, agitatedly depicted is Stella West (“Head of E.O.W”), who modelled for Auerbach three nights a week in her Earl’s Court basement....
...Ambassador to Finland 1998-2001 Amb Michael McFaulDirector, Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the US Ambassador to Russia 2012-14 David KramerExecutive Director, George W...
...Or, as James W Alexander wrote in his history of the University Club, of which he was president from 1891 to 1899: “The existence of the University Club in the city of New York is due to the proclivity of...
...Belgian prime minister Alexander de Croo, representing sceptics of EU industrial policy being run by and for the countries with the deepest pockets, says the EU should concentrate on improving the single...
...George W Bush said he could “get a sense of his soul” and found Putin “straightforward and trustworthy”....
...The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poemby Matthew Hollis, Faber £20/W. W....
...Alexander Jobst, chair of Fortuna, says the idea grew in part from worries about the future strength of other revenue streams....
...Russia’s top energy official, Alexander Novak, is expected to attend and is understood to support a substantial production cut, with Russia’s oil already trading at a large discount as European buyers have...
...Alexander Novak, Russia’s deputy prime minister, will have a chance to discuss Moscow’s response when he sits down with Saudi energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, at another Opec+ meeting in Vienna...
...A few months later, I interviewed former US president George W Bush, who described a similar change in Putin, from pragmatic early on to boastful by the late 2000s....
...milestones — Newt Gingrich’s scorched earth approach to his term as polarising speaker of the House of Representatives in the 1990s, the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that handed the 2000 election to George W...
...Alexander Zverev has been accused of domestic abuse by a former girlfriend (he denies it, and has sued in Germany a journalist and publisher who reported the claims)....
...Much of it belonged to his predecessor George W Bush, who, by invading Iraq, triggered humanitarian and geopolitical nightmares that occupy the west to this day....
...“This is the first time Beijing has explicitly opposed Nato enlargement,” said Alexander Gabuev, an expert in Russia-China relations at the Carnegie Moscow Center, an offshoot of the US think-tank....
...This is another reason why Putin and [Belarusian dictator Alexander] Lukashenko do not dare to arm the people. [Ukraine’s Volodymyr] Zelenskyy didn’t really fear his own people and he handed out arms....
...Additional reporting by Alexander Vladkov in Frankfurt and Ryan McMorrow and Emma Zhou in Beijing...
...“The fear of losing the post-Soviet space to Nato expansion became tied up with the fear of losing his own power,” says Alexander Gabuev, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Center....
...The foreign ministry tweeted that this “also shows solidarity w/#Latvia after [Belarus] expelled employees . . . in Minsk”....
..., Ukraine); poisoned his political enemies (Sergei Skripal, Alexei Navalny); hacked western election campaigns (Hillary Clinton, Emmanuel Macron); and propped up authoritarian despots (Bashar al-Assad, Alexander...
...Yet Blinken knew that in order to be credible in levelling such accusations, America had to deal with the legacy of Colin Powell and the George W Bush administration....
...Since the days of Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, many have sought to conquer the territory now known as Afghanistan....
...“[W]e’re not flipping a light switch,” the official told reporters after the summit. “This is going to be an ongoing process and the ultimate test is whether there are practical results.”...
...assassinations and attempted killings almost seem designed to generate Bond-villain headlines, from the bungled operation to kill Sergei Skripal with the novichok nerve agent in Salisbury in 2018 to the death of Alexander...
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