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...Speaking on the eve of the Munich Security Conference, von der Leyen said that Brussels needed to ensure the continent’s defence industry could respond to the raised geopolitical threat....
...“Better to set off a few nice rockets at Neukölln City Hall than let every Tom, Dick or Harry set off firecrackers wherever they like,” he told the Berliner Morgenpost....
...Russia’s framing of last week’s attack at Crocus City Hall differs from these past efforts in important ways....
...New Year’s Eve, according to police....
...It has a strong appeal in the west: on May 27 at the Royal Albert Hall, the Orchestral Qawwali Project brings together singer Abi Sampa with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, choirs and dancers,...
...“Adam and Eve in yew; Adam a little shattered by the fall of the tree of knowledge in the great storm: Eve and the serpent very flourishing. “The tower of Babel, not yet finished.”...
...An agreement between the Turkish leader and Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson struck in Vilnius on the eve of a Nato summit will end Sweden’s limbo....
...The Movie Music of Terence Blanchard, in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic, will be performed at David Geffen Hall’s Wu Tsai Theater on 28 January, lincolncenter.org....
...Filtered through the lens of photographers including Eve Arnold and Martin Parr, the selection captures a heady mix of characters, rituals and friendships in bloom....
...For this week’s issue, on the eve of the publication of a new book dedicated to his interiors empire, we went to Colorado to see him on the Double RL Ranch....
...Luke Edward Hall designer and FT Weekend columnist Edward Hall chooses a witch ball as his favourite Christmas decoration, admiring its size and glorious emerald colour....
...The Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy Allen Lane, £25/ Norton $30, 400 pages Ben Hall is the FT’s Europe editor...
...Talking of central bankers, there will be plenty walking the halls at the European Central Bank Biennial Conference on Fiscal Policy and EMU Governance in Frankfurt....
...‘King Lear’, Almeida Theatre Yaël Farber directs Danny Sapani (Killing Eve, Black Panther) in the title role of the Shakespearean tragedy....
...In room 55B, across from Dürer’s “Adam and Eve”, hung a small wooden mannequin, based on Dürer’s treatise on the proportions of the human body....
...“We call on the Ukrainian side to declare a ceasefire and give them the opportunity to attend services on Christmas Eve, as well as on the day of the nativity of Christ,” the Kremlin said in a statement....
...Ukrainian investigators carried out multiple searches in connection with corruption allegations on the eve of a visit by top EU officials to discuss the country’s progress towards membership of the bloc....
...The order comes days after Russia suffered a major blow on New Year’s Eve when Ukraine hit a barracks housing soldiers in the town of Makiivka in the Russian-occupied Donetsk province in the east....
...Russia said 89 of its troops were killed when precision rockets destroyed a vocational college in Makiivka in Donetsk province on New Year’s eve....
...Putin set the tone with a militaristic New Year’s eve address to the nation last week, surrounded by grim-faced men and women dressed in army fatigues....
...In the Long Room, a plaster overmantel has been cleaned of smoke dirt to reveal the flanking figures of Adam and Eve, her fig leaf dated 1638....
...Xi Jinping has expressed concern about the spread of Covid-19 into rural China on the eve of the lunar new year when Chinese take billions of trips across the country, in the Chinese president’s most direct...
...Another short, shot for Versace Jeans Couture, features a group of friends decked out in the brand’s garish 1980s-inspired outfits stranded in Beirut on Christmas Eve after their car breaks down....
...He announced his presidential run on New Year’s Eve in 2018, with an anti-establishment and anti-corruption platform strikingly similar to that of the character he played on TV....
...At the moment, it’s China’s EVE, which is looking at investing in a new gigafactory in the West Midlands that now the hawks are saying should be blocked....
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