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...The Chinese group said it had no knowledge of Prigozhin or Wagner Group, or anything about Broker Expert’s connections with Wagner....
...An ebb and flow that has been continuing for centuries: this is where Liszt used to stay (and invited Wagner to perform the premiere of the first act of Die Walküre), where Thomas Mann honeymooned and where...
...It was here that, for Liszt’s 45th birthday, Wagner performed the premiere of the first act of Die Walküre, with Liszt on the piano and Wagner as Hunding and Sigmund....
...Wagner said the company “will deal with the challenge” if the tax credits went away....
...Renegade general Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army have militarily controlled the east for a decade, supported in recent years by Russian fighters from the Wagner Group....
...Desertification, exacerbated by climate change, is destroying the equivalent of 500 football pitches of cultivable land per year, according to the UK’s Africa minister Andrew Mitchell, another recent visitor...
...Germany With 67 concerts spanning just over a month, this year’s Dresden festival is impressively inclusive, offering soprano Joyce DiDonato, jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, Kent Nagano conducting Wagner...
...But after Prigozhin abandoned a march on Moscow in June, Russia’s first coup attempt in three decades, Wagner’s days were numbered....
...Climate change: Today, practically everyone above a certain net worth has a World-Saving Project or WSP, writes the novelist Andrew Hunter Murray....
...Wagner and Russia, he said, would seek to take advantage of a volatile situation....
...Government ‘underplayed’ Wagner | The UK government’s “completely unrealistic” approach to Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group over the past decade has made “it possible, if not probable” that it has continued...
...It is losing nearly 500 football pitches of arable land per day to desertification, according to the UK’s Africa minister Andrew Mitchell, who also visited Niger this year....
...It features paintings, sculptures, textile installations and digital and video pieces by artists from around the globe, including Brook Andrew, Sonia Boyce and Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe....
...Opera fans will enjoy (or froth over) its creative reappropriations of snatches of Bartók, Bizet and Wagner, sung valiantly if not immaculately by a cast of fine comic actors....
...Magdalena Kožená was a vivid Varvara and Andrew Staples avoided caricature as Katya’s weak-willed husband, Tichon....
...For The Bible he decamped to Minneapolis to work with a pair of younger indie musicians as co-writers and producers, Ryan Olson of the band Poliça and Andrew Broder of Fog....
...And Andrew Ridgeley, whose original role in Wham! was about as substantial as a hologram, is on board with the idea. Perhaps he and George will be able to share a stage again....
...Last month Knighthead Capital bought a 46 per cent stake in club from two Asian investors, and purchased St Andrews stadium, the club’s home ground....
...Prigozhin’s lawyers in London all stopped working for him well before he admitted to running the Wagner group of mercenaries....
...However, he acknowledged that talks on an $80bn investment by Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest, chair of Fortescue Metals, had been slow to get off the ground....
...Now try this In the green room at the Andrew Neil Show on Sunday (you can watch the programme here), Ed Balls and I talked about two things. First, Arsenal’s chances in the Premier League....
...Tune in to the Davos Daily Show, hosted by the FT’s Andrew Hill, from 12pm GMT January 17-19. Register here for free....
...They simply didn’t have enough to hold that line,” said Phillips O’Brien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews....
...On Wednesday, Boehly and Eghbali posed with their latest acquisition: the £70mn defender Wesley Fofana....
...Pickled profits Hedge fund manager Tom Wagner used to joke about buying a pickleball team....
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