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...the only thing hotter than the temperatures this week (40 degrees Celsius and higher) has been the anticipation for the most electric basketball player in a generation, the 7 foot 4 inch French phenom, Victor...
...The Chadian army is considered the most effective in the Sahel, and a key partner of France’s 5,000-troop Operation Barkhane, which is based in N’Djamena....
...The French president said at the Elysée Palace that he would wait a couple of months after the mid-February summit between France and regional governments in the Chadian capital N’Djamena to see results...
...which is one of the scenarios I studied, would be an error,” the French president told a news conference after attending by videoconference a summit of Sahel states and their allies in the Chadian capital N’...
...He alleges they called him the N word....
...Additional reporting by Victor Mallet in Paris...
...This is the transcript of an interview between Emmanuel Macron, French president, and Roula Khalaf, editor of the Financial Times, and Victor Mallet, the FT’s Paris bureau chief....
...“I was in a club once and there was a song that had the N-word in it,” says Itoje. “And every time they said the N-word, [a white acquaintance] was pointing at me.”...
...Who played Victor Meldrew’s neighbour Patrick in the TV sitcom One Foot in the Grave? Saint Helier (above) is the capital of which island, and British Crown dependency?...
...Victor Cha, a former White House official and negotiator with North Korea, said: “All of our data shows that as negotiations break down between the US and North Korea, Pyongyang’s behaviour becomes more...
...Victor Cha, a North Korea expert at CSIS, said there had been no signs of activity at Sohae in the days leading up to the Hanoi summit, suggesting that the move was a direct response to the failure to get...
...Victor Cha, a North Korea expert at CSIS, said satellite imagery obtained by the think-tank suggested that the activity at Tongchang-ri — the site from where Pyongyang has launched satellites — had occurred...
...It was, he says, like recapturing the early impulse of rock’n’roll....
...He left W&N in 1967 to become an editorial director at Jonathan Cape. But by this point his marriage was failing and he was growing restless....
...Also at the Whitworth, a small show brings together 10 modernist painters, including F.N....
...In the past, Mr Sharif and other leaders of the ruling PML-N party have resisted the idea, but the death of so many people in Lahore and the latest Islamabad confrontation may force them to change their...
...You start having almost a late 1940s, early 50s sort of Ike Turner “Rocket 88” sound to the recording, a very early days of rock’n’roll sound....
...- “Count” Victor Lustig, the conman who sold the Eiffel Tower… twice. - Further, further reading....
...Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, by Alice Walker, W&N, RRP£18.99/Atria, RRP$30 (September) Extracts from 50 years of journals and letters by the author of The Color Purple....
...S.N.U.F.F., by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield, Gollancz, RRP£14.99, 480 pages...
...“My feeling is that if the North Koreans would commit to a test moratorium, that could be a basis for going back,” says Victor Cha, who served as an adviser on Asia policy to former president George W Bush...
...victor.mallet@ft.com...
...But as with HSBC’s suggestion last month that it could switch domicile from London to Hong Kong, the threat leaves any political victor with a problem....
...Siddique-ul-Farooq, a spokesman for Mr Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supported the proposed trip. “My personal feeling is, the prime minister should go,” he said....
...Details of the victor in the BA event were not disclosed by the company, however....
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