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...Russia and Belarus are not members of the Council of Europe — a body set up after the second world war with the enthusiastic support of Sir Winston Churchill....
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...Brent crude, the international benchmark, traded as high as $92 a barrel on Friday after breaking above $90/b last week for the first time since October....
...“On factory floors across the nation, our autoworkers are making cars and trucks that give American drivers a choice — a way to get from point A to point B without having to fuel up at a gas station,” said...
...William Wade, a credit analyst at JPMorgan, warned earlier this month that haircuts of 15-25 per cent on the ringfenced debt were now a “plausible” outcome that investors should be wary of....
...According to the title of a 1961 William Burroughs novel, what kind of machine is the human body? What was the title of David Bowie’s 1973 album of cover versions?...
...It was essentially a new-sheriff-in-town Western retooled as a pumped-up B-movie — in this case, B for brawn, booze and breasts. It has now been remade in a more sophisticated variant....
...It is too soon to say a) whether the reformed bus system introduced in September will be deemed a success in the long run or b) what a sustainable funding model might look like.)...
...For instance, look at what happened when the Anglophile investment banker Michael Klein announced in February 2021 that his Churchill Capital IV Corp, one of the many Spacs launched by him, was going to...
...She was later prosecuted under the 1735 Witchcraft Act, much to the frustration of Winston Churchill, who complained about that act and its “obsolete tomfoolery” being “used in a modern Court of Justice”...
...Sunak quickly moved in with a plan B, but will it work? The FT’s William Wallis has been following the case. Hello, William. William WallisHello, Lucy....
...A long line of prestigious speakers, ranging from Sir Winston Churchill to Dame Iris Murdoch, has delivered the annual Romanes lecture at the University of Oxford, starting with William Gladstone in 1892...
...Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it would keep its 1mn barrels a day reduction in place until the end of the year, while Russian deputy prime minister Alexander Novak said the country’s 300,000 b/d export reduction...
...Patterson points to a pewter beaker from the 1690s engraved with wrigglework portraits of William III and Mary II that sold at Christie’s for £14,400....
...Abolitionist William Wilberforce opposed it, while in the 1930s Winston Churchill co-signed a bill seeking its amendment. Scotland repealed the act in the 1980s....
...Eyman is a veteran film critic whose previous biographical subjects include Mary Pickford, John Ford and Cecil B DeMille....
...its 1mn-barrels-a-day production cut for July into August, state media said, while Russia’s deputy prime minister Alexander Novak said Moscow would make a “voluntary” supply cut of an additional 500,000 b/...
...Asked if ministers were preparing a Plan B in the event that the government’s scheme to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda was struck down in the courts, Downing Street said: “We consider all options to stop...
...The Varna gold medallist Fumi Kaneko set the bar chasteningly high, partnered by an elegant and attentive William Bracewell....
...There are other themes he keeps returning to, such as memory, as his dreamlike, slow-burn production of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie proved in 2022....
...Additional reporting by Amanda Chu in New York and Aime Williams in Dubai...
...The British Gazette, edited by Winston Churchill, was a newspaper published for a week in 1926 – in response to what? The adjective “prelapsarian” means before *what*?...
...As former US attorney-general William Barr noted, all Trump had to do was comply with the request to return the documents....
...“We shape our buildings, and thereafter they shape us,” Winston Churchill said of the House of Commons....
...There had been amazing black designers, a thousand per cent, but there hadn’t been musicians, and specifically the R&B, rap world, being able to come in and not just wear something, not just use something...
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