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...Puzzle 2540 Ian Nepomniachtchi v Magnus Carlsen. AI Cup 2023. Black to move. The world No1 chose Nf5-e3 here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...Two years ago, Igor Matovič, then Slovakia’s prime minister, was asked in a radio interview what his government had promised Moscow in return for supplies of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid vaccine....
...But these days, Villa is valued at more than £500mn after Sawiris and Edens agreed the sale of a minority stake in their V Sports vehicle to US investment firm Atairos in December last year....
...Evidently Wojtaszek knew Karpov v Miles well, as he chose a harmonious formation with Nbd2 to guard his e4 pawn where Karpov had preferred the less precise Qe2....
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...Julie Taymor, the American theatre director famed for her Tony award-winning stage adaptation of The Lion King, describes the Rolex Mentor and Protégé initiative as “an extraordinary concept”....
...“We are in the midst of a real time experiment to see if the productivity of an urban agglomeration can be replicated when hedge fund analysts are working from a yacht in the south of France,” says Tony...
...Arrival’s deal with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V values the company at $524mn....
...There's the union v independence tactical voting, and then there's the anti-Tory tactical voting. And the two do not necessarily align. So the question is, what is the emotion, which is......
...But Stokes’ leadership has been obvious; Prince Hal transformed into Henry V at a succession of Agincourts....
...In London, too, February is going to be a gala month, with the cream of the crop being the V&A’s hosting of the magnificent display of the works of Donatello — possibly the first ever in the British capital...
...delicious; recent highlights include celtuce dumplings, poached asparagus with anise hyssop and a chamomile ice-cream sandwich. elevenmadisonpark.com RD Fu He Hui, Shanghai Run by renowned Shanghai chef Tony...
...The last thing I bought and loved was a huge order of beeswax candles by Tony Assness....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Tony Blair, the Labour prime minister, had paid fulsome tribute to the "people's princess". I feel like everyone else in this country today. Utterly devastated....
...socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is due to be sentenced after being found guilty in a sex abuse trial Wednesday Belgium, the Ommegang festival, including a pageant re-enacting the historical entry of Charles V,...
...Her father, known as Bertie in the family, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. His elder brother, David, was expected to become king....
...Danker, CBI director-general.He added that without “serious action, we risk the economy simply drifting towards low growth once the V-shape bounce ends”....
...As the CBI boss Tony Danker said in a tough speech today, measuring the UK’s long-term prospects by the speed of the post-Covid bounceback — the upside of a V-shaped recovery — is kidding ourselves....
...He’s only five percentage points behind Keir Starmer in the polls on who make the best prime minister as opposed to 20-something on the Labour v Tory one....
...And Tony Danker, who’s head of the CBI lobby group, had this to say. Tony DankerI don’t accept that you have to trade off growth with fairness....
...Puzzle 2424 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave v Ian Nepomniachtchi, Grand Tour Paris Rapid 2021. White to move. France’s No 1 was three pawns down and faced with a disastrous discovered check....
...From Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair, governments have set the tone of policy for museums and galleries, filling their upper ranks with allies and their coffers with public funds....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
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