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...I wish we’d had the magic carpet to float us from the cool, damp roadside to sunnier, warmer San Luis Potosí state....
...The US proposal received a more positive response from Vladimir Putin, who said Russia, which manufactures the Sputnik V vaccine, would support the move. “A pandemic is an emergency situation . . ....
...(Guardian) Slovakia’s prime minister Igor Matovic is facing mounting pressure to resign after striking a deal with Russia for its Sputnik V vaccine....
...Spaniards would have to get used to taking away their favourite paella dishes, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said in an address to the nation....
...The big Schrems v Facebook rematch should be well worth the wait....
...EU eyes US ‘mini deal’ Phil Hogan, the EU’s chief trade negotiator has told the FT he hopes to broker a “mini deal” with the US as Brussels seeks to smooth transatlantic tensions before Washington follows...
...Los Angeles, the busiest US merchandise port, moved a record 9.5m 20-foot equivalent containers last year. It and Long Beach handled a third of US container traffic in 2018....
...Will US consumers pay for the trade war with China? The week started with market turmoil as the US-China trade war escalated....
...Socialist prime minister Pedro Sánchez has pushed for more dialogue than his predecessor Mariano Rajoy....
...Mariano Rajoy has become the first prime minister in Spain’s democratic history to be ousted by parliament, losing a vote of no-confidence that will see him replaced by the Socialist opposition leader Pedro...
...Torra on Saturday said; “Pedro Sánchez, let’s talk, let’s address this issue, let’s take risks, you and us.”...
...(Ars Technica) It’s a big day for Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s socialist leader, who is struggling to get enough support from MPs to form a coalition government....
...This rationale also applied to Pedro Martinez, justifiably elected this year with just 197 wins....
...at this year’s European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) in Maastricht in March, with three dealers offering pieces by the remarkable Luisa Roldán (1652-1706), for instance, court sculptor to Charles II and Philip V...
...He talks us through some of the plants that form “the biggest drugstore in the world”....
...plants may not be the next trend in interior design, but this exhibition of technology at the Watermans Arts Centre gives the visitor some idea of what it might be like if interiors were to respond to us...
...I was captivated by a black jersey dress with a printed beige tape measure wrapping around the bust, waist, and hips by Isabel de Pedro (www.isabeldepedro.com) at $298, whereupon I had to admit, much to...
...Italy V Ireland....
...This show includes figurative works as well as the abstract “Clearing V” (2009), in which Gormley uses 12 kilometres of aluminium tubing to create a “three dimensional drawing in space”, and “Body” (1991...
...“Will it be an L-shaped recovery or a V? I don’t know,” says Pedro Gómez de Baeza, GBS chairman, “but we notice that investors are starting to come out of their hibernation....
...In the US v Cuba clash, fans from both countries mingled in adjacent rows of the stand without the slightest hint of tension. The US stars and stripes flew beside Cuba’s flag of the lonely star....
...By the end of day two, we had even mastered our first Class V sections – emerging soaked but intact....
...The most famous of all is Sammy Sosa, fifth on the all-time home-run list, but he appears to have now retired....
...Abstracting from the issue of skilled v unskilled labour, profits as a percentage of GDP are at a 50-year high in the US, and multi-decade highs in Germany. To what do you attribute this?...
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