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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...
...Women were outnumbered five to one in the 533 most senior leadership positions in S&P 100 businesses in 2023, with only 17 black women on that list, according to USA Today in March....
...President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party is set to win a gubernatorial election in Mexico’s most populous state, according to preliminary results released last night....
...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?...
...Kelly HollandBruce Springsteen had just come out with Born in the USA, I think. So we decided we would call it Porn in the USA (laughing) and that’s how it started....
...Health officials say they have only reported 11,812 adverse reactions from the BioNTech/Pfizer, AstraZeneca, SinoVac and Sputnik V jabs....
...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....
...Slovakia’s drug regulator claimed a batch of Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine was unlike those reviewed by western medical experts....
...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....
...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...
...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....
...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....
...Spain’s Alberto Ginés López, 18, has won the first-ever Olympic gold in sport climbing....
...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...
...“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...
...It is the fifth quarterly contraction in a row, dampening hopes of a speedy, V-shaped recovery....
...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....
...Read more about Silvercorp USA, the private security company involved in the foiled operation....
...Virgin Louis V on my back, baby. Living fast, dying slow, that's the catch, baby. Suicide doors, [MUTED] around and crash, baby. I do the dash, baby....
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