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...Political allies have hailed Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s first visit to the US as Philippine president as a “home run”: he secured one of the few bilateral meetings with Joe Biden on the sidelines of the UN General...
...Davis and her husband had three children, Aaron, Hannah and Simone....
...President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva demanded that Fifa, football’s global governing body, and La Liga take “serious measures” in response....
...Japan: Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida will hold talks with Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr in Tokyo....
...Most of all, Simone Gold looks like someone who has never got in trouble. Until the pandemic, she never had....
...The moment that changed everything for me was when I was told I was dyslexic [Stewart is president of Dyslexia Scotland] and that I wasn’t stupid or dumb or thick....
...It is a practice of history and memory which has only become more urgent since the Marcoses’ son was elected president in the middle of May....
...Marcos Jr’s vice-president is Sara Duterte, daughter of Rodrigo Duterte, the outgoing president....
...They will be vying for the 7.2 per cent of votes cast for the eliminated third and fourth-placed candidates, centrist Simone Tebet and leftist Ciro Gomes....
...For Simone Diniz, a professor at the Federal University of São Carlos, “political violence is not something new. The difference is that today certain authorities encourage the practice.”...
...It was the spilling of children’s blood — among other murders and assaults — that led Nina Simone to compose the song of righteous rage “Mississippi Goddam”....
...“Marcos was not his father, and the sins of the father should not be visited on the son,” said Carlos Conde, a researcher with Human Rights Watch....
...Also, ECB president Christine Lagarde’s speech at the first meeting of the Simone Veil Pact, organised by Renew Europe....
...In “Sovereignty”, Simone Leigh’s totemic bronzes of black women tower, repossess the space, or discomfort us, as in the bent figure washing clothes, based on a vintage photograph: “a very racist image”,...
...Simone Tagliapietra, a senior fellow at Bruegel, a think-tank in Brussels, says that as president, Draghi can “make sure the economic policy of the country remains good for several years”....
...I have two beautiful children [her elder son, Carlo Ponti Jr, 51, is a conductor] and they gave me grandchildren, so I’m surrounded by great love every day.”...
...In their book One Nation After Trump, EJ Dionne Jr, Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann argue that US democracy is now “biased against the majority”, through the electoral college, the make-up of the Senate,...
...Moral Money’s Gillian Tett spoke with Costa Rican president Carlos Alvarado Quesada on how the country has thus far mitigated Covid-19 and the impending climate crisis....
...Carlos Ghosn, chief executive of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, said at the Paris Motor Show that the industry “cannot continue to prosper” unless it builds its own capacity....
...Only in recent years has Kwame Jr begun working with his father to digitally archive his old photographs and bring them to a wider public....
...Separately, the Republican-led Senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed the president’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr to testify about answers he gave congressional investigators as part of their Russia...
...Austerity: When It Works and When It Doesn’t, by Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero and Francesco Giavazzi, Princeton, RRP£27/$35 This is an extremely important book....
...(Reuters, FT) Ghosn’s upbeat new lawyer Carlos Ghosn’s new lawyer has expressed optimism that the former Nissan chairman could be released on bail “in the near future”....
...She snapped the future senator and president John F Kennedy with Elizabeth Arden, empress of the cosmetics industry, at a party she had gatecrashed. Then came Cuba in 1953....
...Back then Tommie Smith and John Carlos were inspired by the Black Power movement, reflecting the anger of the Black Panthers and Malcolm X and the urgency of Martin Luther King Jr....
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