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...Cuba, Indonesia, Myanmar and Sierra Leone were moved to the “red list” of countries from which returning travellers are required to quarantine for 10 days in a government-contracted hotel at their own expense...
...Similarly, in the Sierra Leone case, survivors testified to being raped or mutilated....
...We showed 38 hand-picked examples that varied from water white to dark brown through the most gloriously lustrous and nuanced shades of amber and tawny....
...The international Grenache Symposium organised there in 2010, which arguably lit the current flame, was the brainchild of Nicole Sierra-Rolet, wife of Xavier Rolet, head of the London Stock Exchange, and...
...This takes you into the Sierra de Gredos — a lonely, billhook-shaped chain of granite mountains strewn with gigantic, shed-sized boulders which seem on the point of toppling down into the valleys below (...
...Red here, green there and almost no amber anywhere. This was not a time to be equivocal.” Preston’s strategy helped keep Grosvenor afloat during the most turbulent years of the recession....
...Collectors’ gambit Auction house Christie’s in London sells 58 chess sets from a European collection ranging from the 18th to the 21st century in ivory, bone, amber and silver....
...Among small caps, hologram printer API Group rose 15.3 per cent to 50¾p after Crystal Amber, the activist fund, declared a maiden 7 per cent stake....
...Sierra Rutile eased 0.8 per cent to 29.9p after hostile bidder Pala Investments said it would not increase its 30p a share offer for the miner....
...Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa’s Fighting Spirit, by Tim Butcher, Chatto & Windus RRP£18.99 The follow-up to Butcher’s hugely successful Blood River sees the author travel to Sierra Leone and...
...The Memory of Love, by Aminatta Forna, Bloomsbury RRP£17.99 Forna’s beautiful novel traces the fates of damaged characters in the wake of Sierra Leone’s civil conflict during the 1990s, as those who would...
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