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...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...Last year Labour lost the Tower Hamlets local authority, which includes the wards of Mile End and Bethnal Green, to the Aspire party led by Lutfur Rahman....
...Two years before that, she played Henry V at Regent’s Park, and insists that both times, rather than wanting to “play a man”, she wanted to understand how to play Henry or Hamlet....
...It was designed by a friend of my father’s, Sir Michael Hopkins, and it’s a brilliant piece of architecture. I think it’s won around 15 awards over its time....
...Looming over Dürnstein are the ruins of a castle where England’s King Richard I, aka the Lionheart, was briefly incarcerated in 1192, on his way back from the crusades, after offending Leopold V, Duke of...
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...Through the sale of bracelets and pendants, the brand has raised more than $20mn to provide water, immunisations and educational tools to those in need. louisvuittonforunicef.com V is for Visual AidsAcne...
...“I don’t consciously model myself on Henry V,” he laughs, adding that the answer lies in the pluralism of the plays and the fact that they demand true ensemble playing (Doran begins the rehearsal process...
...A natural to play Hamlet on stage, he did, in 1979, and among his 1980s movies, he also appeared in three off-Broadway Shakespeare productions, Henry V, Richard II and A Midsummer Night’s Dream....
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...A facility to pack and distribute Sputnik V will open in May, with plans for it eventually to be produced in Serbia....
...Hungary eschewed EU inoculation guidelines and relied on the Chinese-made Sinopharm vaccine and the Russian-made Sputnik V to become one of the world’s most vaccinated countries....
...Hungary was the first EU country to license and distribute the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine, which it agreed to buy for less than €10 a dose....
...Rivals AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Russia’s Sputnik V and new entrants such as Novavax make up the remainder of the market, which is forecast to double in value to $124bn next year....
...If both new vaccines are approved by Hungary’s National Health Centre, the total number of vaccines approved in Hungary will be seven, including China’s Sinopharm vaccine and Russia’s Sputnik V....
...Hungary has been testing Sputnik V since early December....
...Last week Hungary became the first EU country to start administering China’s Sinopharm vaccine, in addition to Russia’s Sputnik V and jabs developed by BioNTech/Pfizer, Moderna and Oxford/AstraZeneca....
...In Slovakia, Prime Minister Igor Matovic’s decision to buy the Russian Sputnik V vaccine without the agreement of his coalition partners has left his government in turmoil....
...Hungary has also licensed the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine, alongside the EU-approved BioNTech/Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna jabs. “We are in a race against time. Get vaccinated!” he wrote....
...The Czech Republic, which is facing a surge in infections, could start using the Sputnik V vaccine, Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Sunday....
...Plus, the FT’s southeast Europe correspondent, Valerie Hopkins, explains the love-hate relationships that Serbians have with Chinese investment in their country....
...Also in demand for its superb views across the Test Valley is the nearby hamlet of Up Somborne, despite offering little in the way of amenities....
...Hungary was the first EU country to approve the Sinopharm vaccine, along with Sputnik V, the jab developed by a Russian investment fund....
...Additional reporting by Davide Ghiglione in Rome and Valerie Hopkins in Budapest...
...It has the world’s fourth-highest seven-day moving average of daily cases, according to Johns Hopkins University data....
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