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...The quality of democracy enjoyed by an average global citizen in 2022 is back to the levels of 1986, according to the V-Dem Institute, which assesses democracies’ health on five principles: electoral, liberal...
...In the wake of police killing Tyre Nichols last month, we speak with Nick about how his work has changed over 30 years, even as history repeats....
...In her final year of study, she was also awarded the Young Masters Maylis grand ceramic prize and has since shown at the V&A, Christie’s and Collect at the Saatchi Gallery....
...According to V-Dem, a Swedish research institute, almost three quarters of the world’s population now live in autocracies against less than half a decade ago....
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...In an attempt to win over William, Harry turned to Google, calling up images of their bearded ancestors Edward VII and George V in uniform. Why do beards get some people so hot under the collar?...
...Health officials say they have only reported 11,812 adverse reactions from the BioNTech/Pfizer, AstraZeneca, SinoVac and Sputnik V jabs....
...Maybe a contributing factor could be if a person grew up in the former Soviet Union and went to Moscow State University and attended on a V I Lenin academic scholarship.”...
...receive 24m doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...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....
...So far, 16.7m vaccine doses have been administered with 10.7m people having received their full course of treatment, said Hugo López-Gatell, health undersecretary....
...Slovakia’s drug regulator claimed a batch of Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine was unlike those reviewed by western medical experts....
...Mexico is waiving an upcoming shipment of Covid-19 vaccines from India, which is in the throes of a brutal coronavirus second wave, as “a way of expressing our solidarity”, President Andrés Manuel López...
...Dramatic images showed the train suspended at a 45-degree angle, snapped into a V-shape, and suspended above a mountain of rubble on the road....
...When French-born, London-based Laura Roso Vidrequin launched the website last year, she was balancing the business with her day job as a senior buyer at Harvey Nichols and only intended it to be a side project...
...Of those received, 5.7m were the BioNTech/Pfizer jab; 3.6m were AstraZeneca; 4m were Sinovac of China and 900,000 were Russia’s Sputnik V, coronavirus tsar Hugo López-Gatell told the news conference....
...Vladimir Putin said he would be vaccinated with the Sputnik V jab on Tuesday....
...Feeding the frenzy is the A-list assemblage of Wall Street veterans Michael Klein, Bill Ackman and Betsy Cohen on one side, and celebrities like Shaquille O’Neal, Jennifer Lopez and Jay-Z diving headfirst...
...From August 14, Nichols’s company will present Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor....
...It is the fifth quarterly contraction in a row, dampening hopes of a speedy, V-shaped recovery....
...“I am optimistic,” he told his daily news conference, saying a rollout of $1,000 government loans to help microbusinesses would ensure a “V-shaped effect [recovery]”, with only “a short economic fall and...
...WHERE TO SEEThe Jewellery Gallery at the V&A, London....
...Ju Wenjun, who had fallen for the trap in this week’s puzzle the previous round, was caught at the start with a prepared line against her Ruy Lopez....
...(FT) Economists are still too upbeat Economists initially, and over-optimistically, embraced a relatively quick V-shaped recovery....
...Mr Trumka said on Thursday that he “wants to get to yes” on the Nafta successor, but planned to head to Mexico next week to meet President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to discuss his concerns that Mexico...
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