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...Dame Karen Pierce, current UK ambassador to the US, will remain in post until the end of the year before handing over to Barrow, according to officials....
Capture of village of Robotyne potentially opens way for advance on strategic towns further south
...Meanwhile, we also take in such varied delights as Swedish-style Norwich City Hall, designed by CH James and S Rowland Pierce; the Viennese whirl of Quarry Hill flats in Leeds (architect RAH Livett); Charles...
...John McTernan, former political secretary to Tony Blair, summed up the reaction on X: “Shortest ever post holder, surely? Placeholder for a Labour nominee!”...
...Somehow the west has to pierce the self-delusion shrouding Putin’s court. I may of course be underestimating the spine of Russia’s press secretaries....
...In “Cram” a darting red form pierces two grey columns, aggressively sexual, while “Crook” is a sinuous silver curve, its metallic sheen lusciously painted....
...The geology is thrillingly savage, towering slabs and prisms of battleship granite that shoot from the shoreline at crazy angles, or pierce the flat water like half-sunk Stonehenges....
...I calculate these would total £16,000 using data from Ray Boulger, of mortgage broker John Charcol. That would plainly be unaffordable, particularly when other household bills are soaring too....
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...Another American sporting legend died this week — Vin Scully, the broadcaster who was baseball’s equivalent to cricket’s John Arlott....
...Omicron appears to be more transmissible than Delta and able to pierce through immunity caused by vaccines and prior infection....
...Mayweather and Pierce did not respond to requests for comment....
...In the summer of 1829 Constable’s dear friend Archdeacon John Fisher told the grieving artist that “the church under a cloud is the best subject you can take”....
...Admitting that, as of now, even the medium-term future is unusually opaque, the question becomes: what indicators do we watch closely as we try to pierce the fog?...
...US landlord Hines has appointed its founder’s granddaughter Laura Hines-Pierce as co-chief executive....
...double portrait in red and gold satin of George and Francis Villiers, aged seven and six, orphaned sons of Charles I’s favourite, the Duke of Buckingham, and teenage Scottish aristocrat brothers Lords John...
...It was nearly 30 years ago in GoldenEye that Judi Dench first appeared as M, the head of MI6, opposite Pierce Brosnan’s Bond....
...Without immediate action, there will be millions more infections and deaths, and new variants could emerge and pierce vaccine immunity....
...Nominally a work of fiction, this 19th-century bestseller is a thinly veiled portrait of various romps through the decadence of Regency society enjoyed by its author, Pierce Egan, and, now much-celebrated...
...Former child actor and the co-inventor of cryptocurrency Tether, Brock Pierce was one of the first big names who chose the low-tax island as his new home....
...Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane was actually a brokerage, and the job was for a “runner” who shuttled messages around the trading pit of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange where financial contracts were...
...The brand was innovative also in forging early relationships with Hollywood and recognising the power of celebrity, dressing Clark Gable and John Wayne in the ’50s, and later Pierce Brosnan, long before...
...But John Dyson, a former Supreme Court justice, told the Financial Times that judicial review “for the most part works very smoothly and there is not a problem”....
...We Germans , by Alexander Starritt, John Murray, RRP£14.99, 208 pages John Thornhill is the FT’s innovation editor and a former Moscow correspondent Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Joe Biden’s climate envoy must restore confidence that the US will tackle climate change, says a Politico piece on what the world wants from John Kerry....
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