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...Over the years, mayors, county executives and police officers have been marched off to prison on bribery and racketeering charges — often replaced by “reformers” who then succumbed to similar temptations...
...Substantial Catholic minorities were “trapped” in Northern Ireland’s border counties....
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...“I think markets are hopeful that we could get the V-shaped recovery that the president is hoping for,” he added....
...a burning tire barricade during protests against the increase in fuel prices in Port-au-Prince, Haiti On the line North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits a potato farina production factory in Samjiyon County...
...(FT) Surviving underground The world breathed a sigh of relief at the rescue of the boys trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand, but the boys’ ordeal is not necessarily over....
...They succumbed to illness around 1475; their bodies were buried in a small cave, mummified by the cold and discovered again in the 1970s....
...A dead baby was found discarded on a beach in Kerry; another buried at a farm in the same county....
...It’s even said that Charles V came through on his way from Flanders to take up the Spanish throne....
...Stone, a prolific photographer and Conservative MP, enlisted a network of local camera-club members to document, county by county, what they saw as Britain’s threatened heritage: ancient buildings and local...
...But the really extraordinary sight was the vineyard design in Skyline, virtually on top of the winemaking caves....
...The country has had independence for seven years, yet when three men, Chidhina, Febi and Jungle, are held in prison after a brawl, they meet a mysterious stranger who claims to have been hiding in a cave...
...He has been sentenced in absentia to 18 months in prison....
...The charges carry a variety of maximum penalties, up to life in prison on certain charges....
...The 4th NPower Test, England v Pakistan, is at Lord’s, August 26-30, www.lords.org ………………………………………….....
...By the 1980s, as a kind of thank you, the childless Gilberts decided to leave the art collection they had built to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art....
...The elusive graffiti artist’s “Banksy v Bristol Museum” exhibition, which has just closed, is estimated by the city council to have boosted Bristol’s economy by £10m....
...The Dazu carvings include scores of caves and 50,000 statues hewn by devout Buddhist monks as early as the 7th century....
...The Death of Bunny Munro By Nick Cave Canongate, £16.99 A “rock novel you can hum along to” is how the FT described the second work of fiction by the Bad Seeds frontman Cave....
...Housing foreclosures are continuing, with the county sheriff’s office listing around 250 forced sales a week....
...These are the kinds of lies that make your whole way of viewing the world cave in....
...Yvon Mau. 13% Finca Flichman, Gestos Malbec 2006 Mendoza £5.99 MajesticLots of beef here and an attractive savoury finish, from Andean vineyards. 13.5% Verhaeghe, Heritage du Cèdre 2005 Cahors £6.11 Caves...
...But on Sunday “Croker” will host its first rugby match: Ireland v France in the Six Nations championship....
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