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...Look out for the pop-up at Galerie Hug, on Rue de l’Échaudé, and the striking Garland of Rāgini mural: a ragamala painting from the 1700s in which elements of the original watercolour have been carefully...
...“I guess they are the correct ones for Karnataka’s future,” said Nandini V, an engineering student. “They will do what they have promised.”...
...Anti-Islam extremist Geert Wilders won elections in the Netherlands in November and the far right is expected to enjoy a surge in support in much of the EU in European parliament elections in June....
...The actor hasn’t converted to Islam — he has just committed to the function, in the same way he commits to all of his projects....
...In his autobiography, The Go-Between, Yousefzada is detailed about his upbringing: the poverty; the increasing adherence to more conservative Islam among a community becoming isolated by unemployment; his...
...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...They begin with a sequel to the English King Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt....
...(Now, as attorney-general, Garland will be the one who decides whether to prosecute Trump over January 6.)...
...Such garlands were commonplace in early Renaissance painting, acting to signal the painter’s sophisticated awareness of classical iconography....
...Ibrahim had been enslaved and converted to Islam; Gritti, known as the Beyoglu, stayed a nominal Christian....
...The great Arab empires, the Abbasid or Umayyad, left Islam the dominant religion for north Africa and the Middle East....
...Merrick Garland, the US attorney-general, said US Capitol Police would “give their all to defend the seat of our democracy” and said the FBI was assisting the Washington police with the investigation....
...The V&A’s reconstructions of shabby but infinitely layered and complex ad hoc British mosques is very striking and among the most memorable displays....
...The move from Budapest to order the Sputnik V vaccine is being seen by some as an attempt to curry favour with Moscow....
...Their light and dark V-necked playsuits (I suspect mother-made) are poised between school gym slips and men’s evening clothes....
...Looking ahead, Shada Islam at the Friends of Europe issues a clarion call for a real budget to help the EU rediscover its glory days....
...But the headlines were stolen by the anti-Islam AfD, which registered huge gains to become the second-largest force, surpassing Angela Merkel’s CDU....
...However, the England v France game was cancelled due to Typhoon Hagibis, the most powerful storm to hit the country in decades....
...that allows you to cram in more stuff: it’s been used as part of the Dior exhibitions staged in Paris, currently on show in London, and at the Alexander McQueen retrospective Savage Beauty at both the V&...
...(Project Syndicate) AKK v AfD The head of Ms Merkel’s CDU party has hit out at a “climate of hate” orchestrated by the anti-Islam AfD party, saying polarised politics was responsible for the murder of a...
...It killed Mr Garland’s nomination and any remaining semblance of bipartisan goodwill....
...Muslims for Wilders A second ex-member of Geert Wilders anti-Islam party has gone public in his conversion . . . to Islam....
...(FT) Milan v Madrid Southern Europe’s two main financial centres were both hit by the 2008 crash, but prices in Madrid have raced ahead of those in its Italian cousin since....
...Mr Trump has previously said he planned to appoint justices who would overturn the landmark ruling Roe v Wade, which legalised abortion in the US....
...One of his most consequential votes was on Bush v Gore, the controversial ruling that handed George W Bush the White House in 2000....
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