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...Opening-night crowds for the contemporary operas at the Met this season have been palpably enthused, and it was no different for the premiere last week of Daniel Catán’s 1996 work, Florencia en el Amazonas...
...Unusually dry weather conditions associated with El Niño are partly to blame....
...However, the impact on global inflation from “a large El Niño could spread beyond just food”, according to JPMorgan....
...Meanwhile, spot prices for dry bulk ships have surged as Brazilian iron ore miners benefiting from dry weather linked to the El Niño effect compete with thermal coal traders for space aboard a limited number...
...Central banks: European Central Bank vice-president Luis de Guindos addresses the Foro Empresarial El Diario Vasco in San Sebastián....
...Reporting by Harry Dempsey, Ian Johnston, Shotaro Tani, Lukanyo Mnyanda and George Steer in London, Henry Foy in Brussels and Felicia Schwartz in Washington Letter in response to this article: Why Houthi...
...London Letters in response to this report:Labour’s ‘copy and paste’ shadow chancellor / From Martin Spector, London N2, UK Shadow chancellor’s claims make mind boggle / From Emeritus Professor Ali M El-Agraa...
...The survey is “definitely a sign that we are starting to see the Red Sea actually impact businesses in Europe, and in fact quite a lot earlier than we expected the impact to be”, said George Moran, an economist...
...A leaked UN report estimated that the number of deaths in the Darfur city of El Geneina alone at 10,000-15,000....
...Traders now worry that hot and dry weather enhanced by El Niño could further crimp production early next year....
...I blame George Herbert Leigh-Mallory, the English mountaineer who participated in the first British Mount Everest expeditions in the early 20th century....
...The troglodyte complex of the Sidi Idriss hotel in Matmata, my first stop the next day, was used by George Lucas as a set for shooting Star Wars in 1976 and again for several of the subsequent films....
...Kona Haque, head of research at ED&F Man, the agricultural trading house, said India’s ban on non-basmati rice exports showed the impact of El Niño....
...At Tate Modern, sculptor El Anatsui’s undulating Red Moon installation glimmers with thousands of discarded bottle tops....
...It certainly lives up to the claim, and, should you wish to enjoy your treats alfresco, it is situated opposite the picturesque Parque de El Retiro....
...Some of the maquettes for Las Pozas can be found at Posada el Castillo, the house that James and Gastélum built, now a guest house where we stayed in 2018....
...Tom Ford — whose eponymous brand was bought by EL last year — knows how to time an exit....
...Additional reporting by Sarah White in Paris, Chan Ho-him in Hong Kong and Peggy Hollinger and George Steer in London...
...In connection, Mohamed El-Erian, a lead director, will become board chair....
...Trump won the largest vote share in a contested Iowa caucus, comfortably beating the 41 per cent won by George W Bush in 2000....
...The Bab el-Mandeb Strait, separating the Gulf of Aden from the Red Sea, is even narrower — and more vulnerable to attack — than the Strait of Hormuz....
...El Salvador: municipal elections. UK: annual rail fares increase comes into force....
...George Washington probably wouldn’t have been elected if he’d had to run for office. But Biden has to, and in the age of high-speed media to boot....
...Artists featured include Georges Adéagbo and Efrén Álvarez....
...May 2; further information and tickets here ‘El Niño’, ‘The Hours’ and ‘Orfeo ed Euridice’, The Metropolitan Opera John Adams’ opera-oratorio El Niño — a bold reimagining of the Nativity — will be conducted...
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