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...With MSS help, Julio Iglesias became the first western entertainer to perform live on Chinese television....
...(More on Iglesias here) Further north, Finland’s leftwing coalition barely managed to avoid collapse last week....
...Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington think-tank, said the election “encapsulates the Trump administration’s relationship with Latin America over the past four years, marked...
...Elections in Madrid have dealt a blow to the party of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and ended the career of Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias....
...He pointed out that the current IDB president, Colombian diplomat Luis Alberto Moreno — who is at the end of his third five-year term — was born in Philadelphia and that a previous chief, Enrique Iglesias...
...(FT, NYT, Guardian) US drops Michael Flynn case The US justice department moved to drop a criminal case against Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, who pleaded guilty in 2017...
...Markets The FT revealed that CQS, the hedge fund run by billionaire trader Michael Hintze, had suffered a second large fall in as many months, partly due to exposure to defaults in the energy sector....
...Mr Iglesias, 89, is also a former Uruguayan foreign minister. The diplomatic push comes amid deep economic, political and social turmoil in Venezuela....
...On her playlist: Gustav Mahler, George Gershwin and Spanish songwriter and singer Julio Iglesias....
...Iglesias, well aware that his charms work more strongly on women, passed him a bottle of tequila to sip from, which he did, enthusiastically enough that Iglesias chided him — “You’re drinking it like beer...
...A fifth round of negotiations with Pablo Iglesias, the Podemos leader, this week made no progress....
...“Signing a piece of paper in a dark room with [the head of Podemos] Pablo Iglesias is very easy . . . the difficult thing is to find a majority [in parliament] and also meet the deficit targets set by Brussels...
...Pablo Iglesias, leader of Podemos, described Mr Guaidó’s attempt to take power as a “coup d’état”....
...On Sunday, the party announced Mr Iglesias had won backing to stay on with 68.4 per cent of the vote....
...To Pablo Iglesias, the villa outside Madrid is a nice house for his growing family....
...Pablo Iglesias, leader of the far-left Podemos, said: “I think the most sensible thing that the president can do is to make his doctoral thesis accessible.”...
...Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor, said at the opening that “we were very conscious of being guests in London”....
...“If Pedro Sánchez is defeated on Friday, there is a preferable option to a PP government: working to ensure new elections as soon as possible,” Mr Iglesias said on Wednesday....
...Pablo Iglesias, head of the far-left Podemos party, said he was “ready to support” a motion of no confidence against the government, calling the situation “very grave”....
...The head of the far-left Podemos party, Pablo Iglesias, said he felt “shame and disgust”....
...The centrist cabinet unveiled this week prompted fury from Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias, who supported his bid last week and now says he feels betrayed: “It took him 24 hours to forget who made him prime...
...Pablo Iglesias, head of the leftwing Podemos party, said: “It seems to me a shame that in this country there must be political prisoners” Spanish authorities have been looking to increase pressure on the...
...The leader of the far-left opposition Podemos party, Pablo Iglesias, called Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Wednesday to urge him to seek mediation....
...Spanish directors such as Alejandro Amenábar, Alex de la Iglesia and Icíar Bollain deserve to be better known internationally, she believes....
...Bloomberg has also commissioned artwork for the interior of the building from such artists as Michael Craig-Martin, Olafur Eliasson and Langlands & Bell....
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