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...It’s his will, and it’s also our will, that he stays in charge as long as possible. And, as you saw, he extended the retirement age [to 80], to still be CEO of the group.” Bernard is 74....
...The gazette also noted Thaksin’s illness and need for medical care. “If Thaksin was going to return to Thailand, he must have known something was afoot, he was going to have a very small sentence....
...Since taking over as foreign minister, he has unleashed broadsides at the US over issues such as Taiwan before the two sides resumed dialogue last month, when he met secretary of state Antony Blinken in...
...With its black and white branding — long-term employees are said to have “black and white blood” — Sephora is one of France’s best-known retailers worldwide, founded around 1970 by Dominique Mandonnaud....
...to have kept his promise” as not one drop of blood was spilled....
...“We had a chance to unify the party behind closed doors, but the Swamp and K Street lobbyists prevented that,” Boebert posted on X, formerly known as Twitter....
...for its pastéis de natas: as well as Christmas “King Cake” (or bolo-rei), this part of the Iberian Peninsula is also home to folares, cinnamon-flavoured sweet breads traditionally baked with whole, unshelled...
...But in Parisian, word reversal has been so standard for decades, or perhaps centuries, that it’s become a dialect unto itself, known as verlan — a word that itself derives from the reversal of “l’envers”...
...It was set up as an inquiry into the police, focusing on how Hayes and her entire family could have been brought to confess to a crime they could not possibly have committed (the baby’s blood type was A,...
...This is the core “production model” of the digital business idea known as surveillance capitalism and Rana is, of course, right to warn that AI will turbo-charge the kind of abuses already being committed...
...However, Seed Library, the hotel’s sultry basement bar by Ryan “Mr Lyan” Chetiyawardana, megastar London mixologist, is the jewel in the crown....
...Drawings give an intimate sense of an artist in thought, but these were also the finished cartone already collected as works of perfection during the Renaissance....
...Doubles at The Langham, which occupies 13 floors of Mies van der Rohe’s landmark skyscraper formerly known as the IBM Building, (and whose concierge can organise tickets and tours) cost from $445; see langhamhotels.com...
...a “disrupter” as he chats with guests in his family’s restaurant, Les Chalets de l’Arcs....
...Making jewellery, he says, is in his blood and all-consuming. There isn’t a moment when he isn’t thinking about it. “It’s the same with my dad....
...One sufferer describes heat exhaustion feeling “as if your whole body is made from very thin, brittle glass”. Heatstroke, where the body reaches 40C and blood is diverted from key organs, can kill....
...“It restricts the gameplay of many games through these methods,” said Ryan Li, a former game developer at Tencent. “For example, red blood cannot appear in the game, and religion cannot appear.”...
...The sudden impulse to jump from a high balcony — sometimes known as “the high place phenomenon” — or steer the car into oncoming traffic is a sensation many will have encountered, but not acted on....
...Escorted by a military band, it was carried through the grounds of L’Echangeur, a tower built in 1974 as a monument to Lumumba....
...They’re all fans of a knitted tank top – or “sweater vest”, as they’re known Stateside; an item of clothing once considered geriatric (to my grandad they were a sleeveless pullover) but now having a revival...
...But, Tammy Sun, chief executive of fertility benefits start-up Carrot, says Aurum was widely known within Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator despite its low public profile....
...Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet still recalls when René Magritte announced he’d make her a version of his famous painting, L’Empire des Lumières....
...Nabi’s generous pay package indicates JAB’s eagerness for new blood....
...CIA director William J Burns said in a statement that Powell “offered as fine a model of leadership as I have ever known”. Additional reporting by Katrina Manson...
...They are shown alongside the antiquities, loaned by the Louvre, that fascinated Poussin’s generation: “The Borghese Vase”, decorated with a Dionysian procession, and the Roman relief known as “The Borghese...
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