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...Pope Francis deliberately jumped into that conversation when he visited Marseille last week....
...Pope’s choice of platform for Mars After Midnight marks a departure....
...He built shelves into the walls of the gallery, lined with bottles of different sizes that are filled with liquid, some dripping into a trough to mark time and the pull of gravity....
...Trump dominated Monday’s Iowa caucuses, which mark the official start of the Republican primary season, winning 51 per cent of the vote — 30 percentage points more than DeSantis and 32 percentage points...
...Pence’s withdrawal could mark the start of a winnowing out of contenders, with several candidates still polling in single digits behind Donald Trump, the clear frontrunner with more than 50 per cent support...
...The poet and garden maker Alexander Pope didn’t share the Phillyrea enthusiasm....
...“This is a historic visit that marks his commitment to the return of peace,” Patrick Muyaya, Congo’s communications minister, told the Financial Times....
...Vatican City: Pope Francis leads the Midnight Mass at St Peter’s Basilica...
...The event’s collapse marks an embarrassing setback for the South Korean government, which has aggressively promoted the country as a world-class destination for top-tier global events....
...Zelenskyy’s visit to Germany on Sunday, his first since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, marks a significant improvement in bilateral ties after Kyiv, at the onset of the war, accused...
...Donald Trump, to whom Milei has frequently drawn comparisons, was quick off the mark with his congratulations: “I am very proud of you,” Trump said....
...Heaven help “painting in the digital age” if its future is as bloodless and pointless as Laura Owens’ “Photoshop marks” layered on grids (“Untitled”, 2012) and Christina Quarles’s “transforming random marks...
...Chart du jour: Water marks The Rhine, Germany’s longest river, is increasingly plagued by low water levels over summer because of climate change....
...Pope Eugenius IV suggested a simple solution: donate 10,000 florins to the Observant Dominican friars at San Marco....
...I give it very low marks. The Vatican gardens publicise their blend of styles, English, French and Italian....
...The Pope will leave a floral wreath at the base of the 19th-century column of the Virgin Mary in Piazza Mignanelli at 4pm....
...Tunisian president Kais Saied signed a memorandum of understanding with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and the Dutch and Italian prime ministers, Mark Rutte and Giorgia Meloni, in Tunis...
...Pope Francis in Portugal: A six-day visit by the leader of the Catholic church to Portugal begins in Lisbon to mark World Youth Day. Five more top stories 1....
...Confusingly, the NYT Opinion Twitter account still has a check mark....
...It was the death of a baby at an overcrowded reception centre for asylum seekers in the Netherlands last year that convinced Prime Minister Mark Rutte that Europe was once again grappling with a migrant...
...This Sunday marks the 78th anniversary of the second world war atomic bombing in Hiroshima....
...He later wrote that, in this inferno, he found not one body that “did not bear the blue, yellow, and green marks of inhuman beatings”. All this had taken place by spring 1933....
...Here’s what else is happening today: Good Friday: Pope Francis will hold mass in St Peter’s Basilica. US president Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, will spend the weekend at Camp David....
...A day later he marks 90 end-of-term essays in a single day while wracked with flu, which this lecturer with one doctorate found superheroic bordering on supernatural....
...Mark Bretton, chair of the LEP Network, which represents all 38 LEPs, said the chancellor’s decision “could significantly diminish or even silence the voice of local business” in regional economic policy...
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