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...Mosaics might not seem the most modern of art forms, with their roots in ancient Greek and Roman art and centuries-long development in Orthodox Christian churches....
...“Half-remembered words of the Roman playwright Terence rang in my head: ‘nihil humani alienum mihi puto.’ I must consider nothing human as alien to me.”...
...Tenor Giorgio Berrugi offered volcanic magnetism as the heroic Avito, while Roman Burdenko won sympathy as the opera’s secondary victim....
...Additional reporting by Polina Ivanova in Moscow, Victor Mallet in Paris, Gary Silverman in New York and Jim Pickard in London...
...That exercise gave birth to a new Roman, an AI version of her old friend, a chatbot with Roman’s personality. To his friends and family, this new digital Roman felt very much present....
...But it is too early to crown Zuckerberg the social media victor....
...The Premier League is drawing up a formal process to handle how “bad” football club owners should sell their shares, following Roman Abramovich’s chaotic exit from Chelsea last year....
Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of risking disaster by attacking facility near Zaporizhzhia
...Peacemaking, however, has given way to a legal fight with Greek shipping magnate Victor Restis, who has demanded £37mn over her alleged failure to repay money he lent her 15 years ago, a claim she disputes...
...I think that Maghreb should be there and I think we should basically be recreating the Mare Nostrum of the Roman empire.”...
...Technically, the only time in history when the state of Albania and that of Italy belonged to the same jurisdictional structure was 1939 to 1943, when Victor Emmanuel III was officially “King of Italy and...
Chinese president’s move comes as Macron, Scholz and Draghi prepare to meet Zelenskyy over plan to seek EU membership
France, Germany, Italy and Romania support move but say ‘profound reforms’ needed to fight corruption
...“‘Impression, Sunrise’ is not a sweet sea landscape but a bomb so powerful” that it smashed classical tradition, says painter Adrian Ghenie, “putting the Greco-Roman canon to rest for good”....
...Additional reporting by Victor Mallet in Paris and Henry Foy in Brussels...
...Roman Abramovich’s 163-metre Eclipse, one of the world’s largest superyachts and estimated to cost more than $1bn, found refuge in the Turkish port of Marmaris....
Warning raises risk of direct confrontation between Moscow and Nato
French president says he has received a commitment to restart Normandy-format talks
...It arose from a fear, whipped up by ambitious politicians, pamphleteers and peddlers of fantastical lies, that a vast, terrifying plot existed to kill King Charles II and return Protestant England to Roman...
...Sequana is named after the Gallo-Roman deity of water and water springs, in particular the Seine: it is an expression of concern and support for children facing the modern world....
Macron told that diplomatic resolution to tensions with west remain a long way off
...Additional reporting by Valentina Pop and Andy Bounds in Brussels, Erika Solomon in Berlin, Richard Milne in Oslo, Victor Mallet in Paris, Eleni Varvitsioti in Athens, Marton Dunai in Budapest, Daniel Dombey...
...Additional reporting by Polina Ivanova in Moscow and Roman Olearchyk in Kyiv...
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