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...For 40 years, a 12th-century walrus-ivory carving on loan to the V&A in London has captured the imagination of museum visitors....
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...Between 2019 and 2022, the number of patrons at the V&A grew by 11 per cent whereas at the Royal Academy, where private money is critical due to the lack of any government funding, there was a 45 per cent...
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...In a sign of possible trouble ahead, Argentina’s outgoing vice-president and former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the doyenne of the Peronist hard left, raised a finger to waiting protesters...
...The quality of democracy enjoyed by an average global citizen in 2022 is back to the levels of 1986, according to the V-Dem Institute, which assesses democracies’ health on five principles: electoral, liberal...
...“We receive between 800 and 1,000 people a day, today, every day, I don’t know how many there are, I can’t get my head around counting, it’s incredible,” said Cristina Coronado Flores, who runs the migrants...
...Salt Crystalsby Cristina Bendek, translated by Robin Myers, Charco Press £11.99 With its contested past, the Colombian island of San Andrés is a cauldron of mixed and often conflicting identities....
...Examples include former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, impeached in 2016, Morales, who resigned after massive street protests in 2019 and Argentina’s vice-president and former president Cristina Fernández...
...According to V-Dem, a Swedish research institute, almost three quarters of the world’s population now live in autocracies against less than half a decade ago....
...“They’re engaging in the same pattern of lies, closing doors in our face and receiving us with tear gas,” said Cristina Bautista, whose son Benjamín Asencio Bautista was among the missing students....
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...V. Jean-Michel was right to be wary. There were a lot of unexplainable things happening in Salta....
...In an attempt to win over William, Harry turned to Google, calling up images of their bearded ancestors Edward VII and George V in uniform. Why do beards get some people so hot under the collar?...
...“My mum forbade me from coming to the festival, she doesn’t want me to be around crowds as you never know what can happen these days,” said 16-year-old Cristina from Ciadir Lunga, the region’s second-biggest...
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...Health officials say they have only reported 11,812 adverse reactions from the BioNTech/Pfizer, AstraZeneca, SinoVac and Sputnik V jabs....
...The ruling centre-left Peronist coalition — led by Fernández and his vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner — hopes to retain control of the Senate and the key Buenos Aires Province, home to a third...
...Although Fernández was flanked by vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the powerful former president whom many see as the real leader of the government, Fernández was the sole speaker....
...receive 24m doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...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....
...So far, 16.7m vaccine doses have been administered with 10.7m people having received their full course of treatment, said Hugo López-Gatell, health undersecretary....
...Slovakia’s drug regulator claimed a batch of Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine was unlike those reviewed by western medical experts....
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