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...Kerala’s fisheries minister V Abdurahiman on Tuesday slammed the protests as “anti-national”, warning there was a “limit” to the government’s patience, according to the Press Trust of India....
...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...On loan from the V&A, it’s an intricate, flashy conundrum that mixes eras, ideas and techniques with breathtaking audacity....
...Hurrem Sultan, often known in the west as Roxelana, was the daughter of an Orthodox priest perhaps named Lisowski....
...The artist charged with putting V-A-C on the map is Iceland’s Ragnar Kjartansson....
...Next week we spend the whole episode on the likely repeal of Roe v Wade and the right to abortion in America....
...In the village of Thulasendrapuram, a seven-hour drive from Chennai on the Bay of Bengal and the boyhood home of Ms Harris’ diplomat grandfather P V Gopalan, V Shivakumar is preparing for his second political...
...He now expects a V-shaped recovery. “It will hurt the economy. But we can’t isolate this. We can’t close down our economy or our company and wait for a vaccine to come,” he says....
...When I do eat Hungarian food, my favourite place to go is Biarritz, in District V, right next to the parliament building....
...The political purpose is to blunt the opposition Labour party’s accusations that the Conservatives are the high priests of austerity and protectors of the rich....
...I don’t knock this — it’s surely better than not doing it — but it somehow reminds me of the indulgences of the medieval church: sin all you want, then slip a piece of gold to the priest to have your slate...
...I don’t have the complete set, which is in the V&A. But they were incredibly important for my development as a photographer....
...Heretic priests. People considered deformed and hideous to the eye of the beholder,” says Mick Barnfather....
...“Everything here is exclusive,” says Maxime Dury of E&V....
...He had been to see a priest in Birmingham to discuss his issues and doubts. “He started physically beckoning me and saying, ‘Come back!’...
...At least in western Europe, it has been a while since a monarch could mutter “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”...
...Because I really have my doubts,” he said, adding that, as recently as 1997, a priest in the ancient Christian city of Lalibela had sold off the Lalibela Cross for a pittance....
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...— And a primer on Mayweather v McGregor (Jack Slack) — China has a struggling industrial heartland of its own (Michael Schuman): There are too many unproductive, debt-laden factories that are losing...
...To read the news outside Russia, you’d think that any political jokes would fall flat in Moscow and that theatre listings must be full of one-man shows extolling the greatness of one V Putin....
...Stewart Brand, high priest of the Valley’s counterculture movement, had even suggested that computers might become a new LSD, helping to open minds and reform society....
...Paedophile priests, unmarked graves for unwanted babies in places like the Tuam mother and baby home and the Magdalene laundries that confined unmarried mothers — all took a toll....
...The Sowetan Mohau Modisakeng’s self-portraits suggest priest-like exorcisms of a violent legacy using pangas and sjamboks as props....
...He looked at me meaningfully and said: “The letter is V.” Panic set in. Naively, I had thought we would have days to mull it over. The priest looked impatient; an answer was needed....
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