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...Admiral John Aquilino, head of Indo-Pacific command, has been trying to meet his Chinese counterparts for two years....
...Anthony Grafton’s intriguing new book introduces us to the polymaths who modelled themselves on the Persian magi (originally a Zoroastrian word for “priests”), and the Christian gatekeepers — Nicholas of...
...They shut down Russia’s elected Constituent Assembly, murdered Tsar Nicholas II and his family, set up the Cheka secret police and created the Comintern, a body dedicated to world revolution....
...Created when he was only 25, it was set and dressed with postwar chic by Nicholas Georgiadis....
...Her admirers included Tsar Nicholas II, Queen Victoria, Georges Bizet, John Ruskin and Delacroix himself. Then she fell off the face of the earth. “How could such a person be forgotten?”...
...A beautiful reissue of this poignant, poetic 1939 classic, with illustrations by John Broadley....
...The year-long commission was chaired by IfG director Hannah White and deputy chaired by historian Sir Anthony Seldon....
...John Malkovich’s Ripley found him decades later, waspish, balding, his soul now further atrophied....
...The Secret Life of John le Carré by Adam Sisman Profile, £16.99, Harper, $27.99, 208 pages Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare Harvill Secker, £30, 864 pages Join our online book group...
...Biden said Israel had “every right” to defend itself while respecting “international humanitarian law” according to the White House....
...Monetary policy: New York Federal Reserve president John Williams will speak about the 2024 economic outlook in the New York City suburb of White Plains....
...Edward White He has a lot at stake....
...Detective Inspector Nichola Meghji, from the City of London Police, said: “This has been a long-running and complex investigation....
...Here’s the proof, in black and white....
...He invariably wore a dark jacket, white shirt and black tie....
...In its latest, Michael Armitage’s “John Barry, O Kelly, Sonny and Richard Moore”, four Hackney dustmen work through lockdown....
...She suggests something “more interesting than plain white diamonds” might suit me, such as black or brown diamonds....
...There is still, 60 years on, something radical, strange and enigmatic about his heavy works and, in the show Anthony Caro: The Inspiration of Architecture, in the setting of architect Sir John Soane’s Pitzhanger...
...A spokesperson for the chair of the Conservative Climate Caucus, Utah congressman John Curtis, said he has “had conversations” with Johnson, the new speaker....
...and writer of “Amazing Grace” John Newton was rector....
...“We absolutely stand by our unwavering support for Guyana’s sovereignty,” White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters, while Britain’s foreign office said Venezuela’s recent actions...
...,” said Mendes who works at London-based company John Charcol....
...Meanwhile, crypto investor and former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci, who admits to being taken in by Bankman-Fried, argues that the case has purged crypto’s demons....
...“I believe his friend John Huston, the director, first sent him here,” says Anthony, who shares his father’s tall, lean, square-jawed presence....
...producer Anthony Lilley....
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