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...Viktor Orbán has showered his home village with money and favours in a display of what his patronage can deliver....
...The 41-year-old, who shot to prominence as mayor of the capital San Salvador, is an avid social media user and once changed his Twitter bio to “The coolest dictator in the world”....
...Jankovich-Bésán often calls and emails the mayor of Arcuș and Sfântu Gheorghe, as well as the head of Covasna county, to propose ideas for using the castle. He said he has never received a reply....
...There is a saying in the swath of eastern Germany known as the Lausitz that captures both the beauty of the region and the curse of its geology. “God created the Lausitz,” goes the expression....
...Francesc Cambó, a Catalan politician and Guardans’ forebear, built it as his home in 1922.So selling the hotel was a wrench....
...The third piece is the redevelopment of the wider neighbourhood, which state officials described in a planning document as “substandard . . . insanitary . . . and economically stagnant”....
...“You dance with whoever’s in the room — that applies to world politics just as much as the village disco,” he famously noted in 2018....
...Eric Adams, the city’s new mayor, who began his career as a transit cop, has made tackling crime and safety on the subway in particular one of his top priorities....
...The state housing authority posted on Twitter mock-ups of new village houses as the conflagration engulfed villages last week....
...Now in his early forties, Avdic lives in Potocari and works as a purchasing and sales manager at a metalwork plant....
...“We are running out of slots for the weekend,” he said. “We can throw in as much capacity as possible but there is a limit”....
...In the third of a series of films on how restaurants are adjusting to life after lockdown, food writer Tim Hayward and Daniel Garrahan visit Brixton Village in south London. (FT)...
...But David Rosser, chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, which runs four hospitals in the city, cautioned last week: “Is it as good as a bed in a hospital?...
...One No 10 official referred to Hancock as “Matt Handjob” in a hostile briefing to The Sunday Times in April....
...Mr Giuliani had done only a few stints in private practice as a lawyer in between his terms as a prosecutor and then mayor....
...That is, the recent US presidential impeachment proceedings in which Mr Giuliani — in his capacity as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer — was shown to be criss-crossing Ukraine in search of possible...
...As the UK and most of Europe enjoys glorious Easter sunshine, few people can take part in traditional festivities....
...In a 15-hour day, he tries to make 30,000 pesos ($9) to cover the cost of a hostel for himself, his younger sister and his two young daughters....
...I spoke to a friend of mine, a senior NHS consultant who had contracted Covid-19 as he tended his patients....
...We congratulate him on his new role as Finance Adviser for COP26 and welcome his successor Andrew Bailey, who takes up his post on Monday....
...The syllabus will include a grounding in his version of world events including classical and church history, art and finance. “The tenets of Judeo-Christian western culture,” as he calls it....
...Shirley Rodrigues, London’s deputy mayor, says the city has reached a “tipping point” in terms of taking action....
...federations, some no bigger than a village club, have the same weight as those with huge memberships and budgets, such as the US and Russia....
...The women in his rented quarters, where whole families are squashed into a single room, get up before dawn as they would in the village, he says....
...The eastern village of Colombey-les-deux-Églises, where he made his home in a modest manor house, is a place of pilgrimage, with a giant version of his wartime symbol, the Cross of Lorraine, on the overlooking...
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