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...“Support for democracy is in freefall among young people now,” says Casas-Zamora, the head of International Idea....
...Two years ago, Igor Matovič, then Slovakia’s prime minister, was asked in a radio interview what his government had promised Moscow in return for supplies of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid vaccine....
...The exhibition Africa Fashion at the V&A in London was a barometer of this shift....
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...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
...News clipGood evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight. Thank you for watching. We appreciate it. In case you haven’t noticed, it’s hard to trust anything you hear right now....
...Formula 1, the global car racing series controlled by Liberty Media, has long struggled to crack the US....
...“We like it because of the diversification,” said Dan Riordan, chief underwriter for political risk at AXA XL....
...Acquaintances of Greg Brereton say he is an unlikely figure to be at the centre of an international controversy....
...Liberty Steel also announced that V Ashok, currently chief financial officer of GFG, would be stepping down “for personal reasons” at the end of May....
...Her most famous image, made at the beginning of a long, international career, bears this out....
...Solar power is set to become “the new king of electricity,” consistently cheaper than new coal- or gas-fired power plants in most countries, the International Energy Agency has said....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...Russia’s Sputnik V jab has shown 91.6 per cent efficacy against symptomatic Covid-19 in clinical trials, a Lancet peer review confirmed....
...Sputnik V is based on the same technology....
...We held one of our regular briefings for all the top underwriters in London yesterday [Thursday] and received very positive feedback from them.”...
...In southern Tamil Nadu state, where the family’s roots lie, giant billboards with Ms Harris’ face appeared, proclaiming “P.V. Gopalan’s granddaughter is victorious”....
...France gave the US the Statue of Liberty. But those historic bonds are starting to fray. France has angered the US by taxing its digital giants....
...HSBC has some discussion about V and W shaped recoveries; its own model resembling “the Nike swoosh” is made by combining a proper V in mainland China forms and more of an L among Western European and American...
...Formula One, the global car racing series controlled by Liberty Media of the US, has cancelled Grands Prix in Baku, Singapore and Japan....
...Meanwhile, protesters say stay-at-home orders threaten civil liberties....
...(FT) The move is the most striking crystallisation yet of the civil liberties fears raised by restrictions imposed on citizens in many European countries since the pandemic began....
...Fries says that there are alternatives for Liberty Global beyond Sunrise....
...(FT) Casper eyes IPO underwriters Online mattress retailer Casper is seeking to hire underwriters for an initial public offering as it expands into bricks-and-mortar store locations....
...Last June, the house of Saint Laurent staged a big, flashy stand-alone menswear collection in New Jersey’s Liberty State Park — an unexpected bucking of a trend for blurring and fusing boundaries between...
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