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...Victor Gao, a former Chinese diplomat and now vice-president of the Center for China and Globalization, a Beijing think-tank, said Russia and North Korea were “both sovereign countries”....
...In a frozen conflict the fighting stops but neither side is declared the victor and neither agree that the war is actually over. Yet Moscow and Kyiv show no inclination to settle for this outcome....
...Mosaics might not seem the most modern of art forms, with their roots in ancient Greek and Roman art and centuries-long development in Orthodox Christian churches....
...Victor Mallet is an FT journalist based in Paris Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter Letter in response to this article: A restitution debate the Louvre is artfully...
...“The length and the completeness of the lockdown is a reflection of how deathly afraid [Pyongyang is] of virus transmission,” said Victor Cha, Korea chair at CSIS....
...As the academic Victor Klemperer noted in his diary: “Every day you say that a catastrophe must arrive, without knowing which one”....
...“Their Jewishness mattered much more to Christian observers than it ever did to Jews themselves,” Coenen Snyder writes....
...Follow Demetri Sevastopulo and Christian Davies on Twitter...
...Technically, the only time in history when the state of Albania and that of Italy belonged to the same jurisdictional structure was 1939 to 1943, when Victor Emmanuel III was officially “King of Italy and...
...It meant that he depicted the everyday world, not history or Christian or classical mythology. And he painted it as he saw and felt it — rapid sketches of the fleeting moment....
...It was not so long ago that Credit Suisse seemed the inevitable victor. During the 2008 financial crisis, it was UBS that was bailed out, with a SFr60bn lifeline from the government....
...In one constituency in the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, where voting is held earlier than in mainland France, Justine Benin, junior minister for the sea, has already been beaten by leftwing candidate Christian...
...LR president Christian Jacob said he did not want to block the country’s institutions but his MPs did not want a formal coalition pact with Macron....
...the EU — given the need for big investments in renewable energy to tackle climate change and for more defence spending following the Russian invasion of Ukraine — contrasts with the more frugal views of Christian...
...The 53-year-old Nigerian artist Victor Ehikhamenor has been working for years on pieces that speak to the collision of African and western cultures....
...On Plymouth Hoe, I was surprised to find that the obelisk commemorating local regiments doubles as a memorial to one of Queen Victoria’s grandsons (Christian Victor, prince of Schleswig-Holstein), who died...
...Victor Mallet in Paris, Sam Jones in Zurich, Akila Quinio in Esquelbecq, Raphael Minder in Warsaw, Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli in Milan and Alice Hancock in Brussels...
...LR leader Christian Jacob insisted that the party must remain independent and its members, including parliamentarians, should stay put....
...“We want to isolate Russia financially,” he said before a meeting of EU finance ministers in Paris in a joint news conference with his German counterpart Christian Lindner....
...Pen also quickly accepted the prospect of thousands of Ukrainian refugees coming to France, while Zemmour dithered before deciding they should be granted visas because, he said, “we’re closer to European Christians...
...Yawning gaps between privileged and poor, between Christians and Jews, and between communists and anticommunists have long run through Hungarian life....
...His support for international economic sanctions infuriated not just the Botha government but many of the white Christians he represented....
...Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom by Ramachandra Guha, William Collins £25/Knopf $35, 496 pages Victor Mallet is FT Paris bureau chief and author of ‘River of Life, River of Death...
...But the second Victor delights in his semi-posthumous fame. It even reignites his love life. Differing reactions to the phenomenon provide much of the comedy....
...Christian Jacob, LR leader, said on Thursday that Ciotti had secured 25.6 per cent of the votes cast, just ahead of Pécresse with 25 per cent, Barnier with 23.9 per cent, Bertrand with 22.4 per cent and...
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