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...Anti-Israel boycotts: McDonald’s said a drop in demand at its restaurants in the Middle East and predominantly Muslim countries had hurt its sales....
...Later, more negatively, McDonald’s took over that role. Its obesogenic food seemed to erase local traditions and standardise the world. That damaged the American national brand....
...But by the time it was completed in 1819, the then monarch, Ferdinand VII, decided that the royal art collection (shaped by his predecessors Charles V and Philip II) should be exhibited instead....
...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...
...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....
...José Manuel Albesa, president of the beauty and fashion division at Puig, said of Rabanne: “He made transgression magnetic....
...It’s the holiday season in Moscow, where the city has put up symbols of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine outside the entrance to Gorky Park: the Latin letters Z, V and O in throbbing neon, looming over...
...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....
...V. Jean-Michel was right to be wary. There were a lot of unexplainable things happening in Salta....
...Ministers, however, face a difficult choice, said Chris McDonald of the Materials Processing Institute, an industry research group....
...In the historic central district, public sector workers have been protesting against their salaries, worth just $11.14 a month, barely enough to buy a McDonald’s Happy Meal in Caracas....
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...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
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...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....
...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...
...On his first day in isolation after contracting Covid-19, Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador had a call with Vladimir Putin....
...Health officials say they have only reported 11,812 adverse reactions from the BioNTech/Pfizer, AstraZeneca, SinoVac and Sputnik V jabs....
...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....
...The Bush administration had concluded that General Manuel Noriega, the Panamanian dictator widely assumed to be a narcotics trafficker, had to go....
...McDonald’s acknowledged as much this week, with chief executive Christopher Kempczinski noting that “we’re not seeing a V-shaped recovery in China”....
...Vladimir Putin said he would be vaccinated with the Sputnik V jab on Tuesday....
...“There is no lack of will, by President [Andrés Manuel] López Obrador or by President [Alberto] Fernández, in regards to bringing and attracting foreign investment into Mexico and Argentina,” he said....
...In November, we were celebrating the announcement that the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine seemed to be highly effective against Covid-19, followed with bewildering speed by similar claims for the Sputnik V, Moderna...
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