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...Puzzle 2549 Oleksandr Bortnyk v Jeffery Xiong, Titled Tuesday 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...“Our democracy is still incipient,” says Jorge Castañeda, a former foreign minister in Mexico, who now lectures on governance at NYU and Sciences Po. “It’s a work in progress....
...At Linares 1994, Garry Kasparov took back a knight move against Judit Polgar....
...Puzzle 2403 Bent Larsen v Boris Spassky, Linares 1981. Two legends met, and Larsen is a pawn up while White's advancing flank pawns look dangerous. How did Spassky (Black, to move) turn the tables?...
...Health officials say they have only reported 11,812 adverse reactions from the BioNTech/Pfizer, AstraZeneca, SinoVac and Sputnik V jabs....
...He said he would still hold a scheduled call with Vladimir Putin on Monday morning to discuss procuring Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine and bilateral ties....
...Puzzle 2298 This position, with White to play, could have occurred in Garry Kasparov v Vishy Anand, Linares 1999, but the Russian avoided it. Can you find the might-have-been finish?...
...man a fighting chance. 2281 Veselin Topalov v Garry Kasparov, Linares 1999....
...Jorge Valdano, a former Real player and manager, once said: “Ronaldo is not a man. He is a herd.”...
...The current coach Jorge Sampaoli loves to play attacking, pressing football, but lacks the fast defenders or midfielders to play it. Argentina haven’t yet settled on Messi’s position either....
...(FT) Google v EU Google has sparked criticism by encouraging news publishers participating in its Digital News Initiative to lobby against proposed changes to EU copyright law....
...Economic proposals Left v right A quarter of a century ago, before the wave of crises that hit emerging markets in the late 1990s, Brazil became a model of liberal reform....
...(NYT) Finance v tech The chief executive of Singaporean lender DBS, Piyush Gupta, said his biggest rivals are not other banks but Chinese tech groups such as Tencent and Ant Financial....
...Along the way they became global stars, a combination of their David v Goliath adventure and their supporters’ fearsome Viking-style chanting....
...The London-based architecture/art collaborative Muf has chosen to intervene in the V&A’s remarkable Renaissance Galleries....
...as part of the Year of Mexico cultural initiative in the UK, the Victoria and Albert Museum and London Design Festival have commissioned Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to create an installation in the V&...
...When David Beckham gently kicked him during England v Argentina at the World Cup in 1998, Simeone played dead, Beckham was sent off and England lost....
...Premiered in 1997, it paid tribute to two stars lost to Aids, Freddie Mercury and Béjart’s own muse, Jorge Donn....
...Had Emperor Charles V not thought it worth demanding that his Mexican viceroy Antonio de Mendoza construct an account of the Aztec civilisation, we would not have the Codex Mendoza: a once-in-an-epoch hybrid...
...Following Charles V, the 42-year reign of Philip II saw further expansion as well as consolidation of the empire....
...Peruvians, beyondbrics Colombia v Argentina: GDP fight, beyondbrics Guest post: Colombia and Argentina, who’s bigger? beyondbrics Guest post: Argentina’s GDP is bigger than Colombia’s, beyondbrics...
...The latter was opened in 2009 in Santiago by Jorge Yarur Bascunan, a descendent of Palestinian textile merchants....
...On the page, Watchmen is both solemn and parodic, whiz-bang and scholarly: a combination of Jules Verne and Jorge Luis Borges....
...It lasted from 1973 to 1981 and had some memorable interviews, including Vladimir Nabokov and Jorge Luis Borges....
...France v Italy is not the final that most students of form picked out before the World Cup began. But it could have easily been predicted by anyone who charted the tournament’s history....
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