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...Williams has a strong, specific eye: Tess’s favourite tea-towel is one with a “colourful map of Jamaica that’s all covered with stains”....
...The pair cuss like seadogs, bitching about Ninette de Valois, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Frederick Ashton, with Barnett roaring the very Ravenhillian line: “Fuck Kenneth Clark!”...
...It is just over 50 years since the premiere of Benjamin Britten’s opera Death in Venice....
...Yet as the Palestinian death toll has soared during the Israeli military response, many colleagues felt he was too slow to confront Benjamin Netanyahu’s government....
...Benjamin Lee, chair of Sha Tau Kok’s rural committee, connected the town’s opening directly to the idea of a Greater Bay Area, a political project to integrate the cities of southern China into a unified...
...Hushed sections for the two soloists, Mary Bevan and Roderick Williams, and chorale incantations offer intermittent balm, but Fiat Lux leaves a lingering feeling that it is overweighted towards showing off...
...The CIA’s director William Burns was still in the region, he said....
...Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo, Benjamin Wilhelm and Leah Quinn...
...As Ogilvie notes, the name of at least one of these “Dictionary People” is already well known: William Chester Minor, the imprisoned murderer whose infamous life and remarkable contribution to lexicographical...
...Only a threat to withhold US (and German) arms deliveries can achieve results and possibly topple the Benjamin Netanyahu government....
...Israel’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the country was “at war” after Hamas launched the biggest attack inside the nation in decades at the weekend, sending militants across the border from Gaza...
...Brent crude, the international benchmark, jumped by 3.8 per cent to $87.81 per barrel on Monday morning, a day after Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned of a “long and difficult war”....
...China has financed nearly 300 projects on the island since 2000, according to the AidData lab at William & Mary college, providing aid and credit totalling more than $20bn....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Before we go, a corruption trial against Benjamin Netanyahu took a turn yesterday. Hollywood movie producer Arnon Milchan is a key witness....
...Wagner also said the German foreign ministry had as yet not received an official complaint from the Israeli government....
...“Putin is someone who generally thinks that revenge is a dish best served cold,” William Burns, CIA director, said while speaking at the Aspen Security Forum last month....
...Great Proms of the past, such as the complete Wagner Ring cycles, the Beethoven symphonies under Daniel Barenboim, or “Stockhausen Day”, are no longer to be seen....
...William Ruto, Kenya’s president, has already sought to negotiate a better financial deal for Africa....
...US president Joe Biden said on Sunday that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet contained some of the “most extreme” members he had seen, accusing them of being “part of the problem” in the...
...Additional contributions by Grace Ramos and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...In gunning for the profession, he said, the government had taken a leaf straight out of the populist hard-right playbook of the likes of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu....
...Additional reporting by Benjamin Parkin in Delhi and Alice Hancock in Brussels...
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