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...Carrein, a former carpenter, teacher and car factory supervisor, appreciates the security of a two-year restoration project. “I’ve always been chasing the stability that nobody ever gave me,” he said....
...RBC has revamped its European credit team, tapping Bank of America’s Georgio Gregoriou, Credit Suisse’s Marc Sánchez Roger and company insider Andrea Marcheggiano for senior roles....
...Stylist’s assistant, Léa Sanchez. Production, Elsa Puangsudrac at Farago Projects...
...The V and M Houses, so called because their footprints resemble the letters, have glass facades, allowing you to peer, voyeur-like, into the apartments, replete with their spiky balconies....
...My dad was a carpenter. My mother was a really talented seamstress.”...
...The exhibition Africa Fashion at the V&A in London was a barometer of this shift....
...Although Kumar Nair didn’t have space for a walk-in, she had a bespoke built-in unit made by a local carpenter....
...“Intellectual property cannot be an obstacle to ending Covid-19,” said a document drawn up by the office of Pedro Sánchez, prime minister....
...Over the past year, Britons performed four times more Google searches for Klopp than for Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel; Guardiola got 39 times more searches than Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez...
...Even amid record death tolls, Olga Sánchez Cordero, interior minister who is acting president while López Obrador convalesces, said the pandemic was “absolutely contained, with a slight fall”....
...He said he would still hold a scheduled call with Vladimir Putin on Monday morning to discuss procuring Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine and bilateral ties....
...Before their heavenly visitor arrives, Mary and Joseph consider a small business loan for their carpenter’s shop. There’s plenty of pathos to go with the bathos....
...(Guardian) Slovakia’s prime minister Igor Matovic is facing mounting pressure to resign after striking a deal with Russia for its Sputnik V vaccine....
...Chart du jour: PMIs hit a V Europe’s economies may be heading for sharp bounceback in activity after the relaxation of lockdown measures, according to a closely watched survey of businesses....
...The big Schrems v Facebook rematch should be well worth the wait....
...Spaniards would have to get used to taking away their favourite paella dishes, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said in an address to the nation....
...Merz v Team CDU Candidates to become Germany’s likely next chancellor and head of the CDU are in. Friedrich Merz kicked off his campaign on Tuesday and immediately attacked his rivals....
...I tried to hang bookshelves in it, but I am not confident as a carpenter, and so they hold picture frames. We inherited a piano, and shoved it in a corner. No one plays....
...The frustration expressed by Mr Thomas and Ms Sanchez is felt across the city....
...On Giudecca island, E&V is marketing a four-bedroom apartment for €3.5m. The heavy footfall of visitors to Venice has boosted the short-let investment market....
...And the carpenters were acting, as far as we can tell, of their own volition.”...
...Carme Forcadell sits in dusky half-light in booth 29, her matching magenta V-neck sweater and rhinestone earrings the only splashes of colour in the rows of otherwise empty visitation cubicles at the Mas...
...(FT) Milan v Madrid Southern Europe’s two main financial centres were both hit by the 2008 crash, but prices in Madrid have raced ahead of those in its Italian cousin since....
...Mariano Rajoy has become the first prime minister in Spain’s democratic history to be ousted by parliament, losing a vote of no-confidence that will see him replaced by the Socialist opposition leader Pedro Sánchez...
...Vishwanathan V.A., a 38-year-old Microsoft employee, took a day off work so that he could come with his wife Krithi, and their toddler....
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