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...Ukraine U-turn: Slovakia’s Russia-friendly prime minister Robert Fico has backtracked on his combative stance towards Kyiv, pledging support....
...What to watch today European People’s party (EPP) congress in Bucharest begins Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visits Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brasília Now read these Forever...
...Despite being the EPP’s figurehead, she’s not on the ballot. Her campaign will begin on June 10 with the lobbying of leaders and MEPs....
...The latter, Decolonised Structures (2022-23), recreates seven public statues from around London of imperial-age figures ranging from Sir Robert Clive, the first British administrator of Bengal, and Earl...
...German economy minister Robert Habeck presents annual economic report....
...It was the seventh Earl of Elgin who procured them. Lucy FisherBeautifully read. Robert ShrimsleyVery good. (Laughter) Stephen BushSorry....
...draws on 20th-century French radical right trends such as the Chemises Vertes (Greenshirts) movement created in the 1930s by Henry Dorgères — on which the authoritative study is the American historian Robert...
...A comeback by leader Robert Fico would challenge EU unity over supporting Ukraine, giving Viktor Orbán of Hungary an ally in his criticism of sanctions against Russia....
...But her centre-right EPP party is in pole position to retain the presidency, even if that means closer collaboration with Eurosceptic parties. And, for now, no one seems like a stronger EPP candidate....
...Here too, or hereabout, was where the poet John Dryden was almost murdered by rogues hired by the Earl of Rochester in 1679....
...Parliament’s Socialists are angry they lost the climate portfolio to the centre-right EPP, while Hoekstra also has enemies in southern Europe after criticising their economies while finance minister during...
...Having spurned suitors including Philip II of Spain and Francis, Duke of Alençon, heir to the French throne, for many years, Elizabeth’s favourite was Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester — who was already married...
...And I interviewed the Earl of Devon, whose family have been sitting in Westminster since, I think the 1200s, and he argues that political fads come and go, but actually there’s a sort of continuity....
...Our plates are cleared and we decide to skip dessert, but Nolan orders more Earl Grey. I ask for an espresso....
...Elizabeth I appointed the Earl and Countess custodians of the captive Mary, Queen of Scots in 1569....
...The John Birch Society was founded in 1958 by Robert Welch, who having retired from his candy-making family business set about saving America from a red takeover....
...Sometimes she stayed at Chatsworth, another of the Earl’s properties, and she summered for a while at Buxton spa, in a suite built for her by the Earl....
...In 1902, William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, sixth Earl Fitzwilliam, died. He left a legacy worth more than £3bn in today’s money....
...The composition belongs with the style most widely known nowadays from works by Robert Adam after his travels to Rome and the late Roman palace at Split....
...In Robert Hastie’s production (first seen at Sheffield Crucible), that shocking moment becomes even more upsetting, as in this staging Hero is deaf....
...Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, took the job in 1812, when he was also 42 years old....
...Key to the couple’s plans is the offer of two artist studios and residencies in the sweeping grounds of Cortachy, the former home of the Earl of Airlie....
...Fellowes reaches back into a nearer past than the 1920s and recycles his Oscar-winning 2001 script for Robert Altman’s Gosford Park, Hollywood invading an English country house....
...It came from acorns brought back by the Earl of Powis, whose son was probably one of Robert Darwin’s patients and later, certainly, his debtor. Gardening and doctoring often go helpfully together....
...Any time Roberts swings with the liberals, Thomas will usually enjoy this important prerogative....
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