“The long-serving leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, has conceded defeat, ushering in a seismic political shift”.
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So just at the point Baroness Hallet plonks the unecessary deaths of thousands of elderly firmly in his lap, Johnson announces he's off to the US. Coincidence? I think not.
Brilliant and strangely moving
Optical engineering that went into 1,600-year-old Lycurgus Cup has baffled experts for centuries
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NEW: The man who organized Thursday’s Oval Office prayer with 12 Catholic bishops resigned as a university dean in 2022 after faculty accused him of misrepresenting his education and called him a “con artist.”
A senior Vatican official told me the gathering was “a highly inappropriate meeting and an insult to Pope Leo.”
Archbishop Paul Coakley, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, was “deeply frustrated” by the meeting, a source close to him told The Pillar. thelettersfromleo.com/p/heri…
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Mark Carney on Elon Musk throttling Starlink: "I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision or group of people took this decision against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of the citizens against naked aggression."
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Archaeologist says skeleton inside coffin inscribed to Valerius Amandinus is likely to be remains of 11th-century abbot.
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Neither man could possibly have imagined that just one generation later, Europe would be defending itself against both of their future successors.
What is happening is truly unfathomable.
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Appalling to see images of Galéries Lafayette being smashed up by huge crowds of masked thugs. Beautiful, elegant, historic Paris. So painful to see. Just a complete and utter disgrace.
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"If there is to be any hope that the democracies, and especially what was once the greatest of them all, will retain or regain their moral compass, we must all keep shouting from the rooftops: “This is a lie!”; “That is a lie!”; “The leader of the United States is lying!”
Max Hastings on fire. "The US has fallen into the hands of the most dishonest and venal leader in its history."
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