NATIONAL An article on Friday about how complicated it can be for American presidents to balance their relationships with foreign allies misstated the title of Narendra Modi, the leader of India. He is the prime minister, not the president. An article on Tuesday about the solar energy manufacturing sector’s struggle to balance supply with demand
The Russians had already drawn up lists of the “troublemakers” they were after and Alona Karavai, a founder of several cultural organisations in Ukraine, was one of them. She didn’t hesitate. She packed a few essentials and with her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter fled to relative safety in the west of Ukraine. In July the missiles rained
Hot chocolate, live music and the smell of sweet treats are wafting through the air as Wisconsinites celebrate all things Christmas. Markets statewide are offering specialist goods from international and regional vendors. Some markets are closer to Milwaukee, while others require a trip from the city to explore. Here’s just a few markets you could
“It was the same kind of friendship as Australians talk about New Zealanders,” he recalled of his childhood. “I grew up with a Ukraine that was very connected to Russian language, Russian literature and so on.” But he said it would take “generations upon generations” of Ukrainians for them to ever feel that way about
A Kalamazoo College English professor has a personal connection to her latest book about the Bengal famine of 1943, which killed about 3 million people in the wake of World War II. “My father, who grew up in Calcutta, was a young boy during the famine,” Professor of English Babli Sinha said. “He told me
On 29 November 2023 the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, holding for the first time that the court can lawfully stay proceedings for, or order, parties to engage in a “non-court-based dispute resolution process” with certain provisos. In confirming the court’s power to mandate ADR, this
Dec 1 (Reuters) – Signa Holding’s insolvency on Wednesday has cast a spotlight on the complex structure of the debt-ridden Austrian property empire, whose holdings span from New York’s Chrysler building to shares in Britain’s Selfridges department store. Although some parts of the empire are battling to stay afloat, the move is likely to trigger
Courtesy MO.CO Montpellier Vincent Honoré, a French curator whose exhibitions gained him the respect of many young artists across Europe, has died at 48. The French publication Le Quotidien de l’Art reported that Honoré had died on Wednesday and that the cause of his death was still being investigated by the police. The report cited
The remaking of the maps of Europe and the Middle East following the First World War overlapped with the triumph of Modernism, and a new show at Dublin’s Irish Museum of Modern Art (Imma) looks both inward and outward, as well as forward, to consider the implications. Keeping in mind Ireland’s own early 1920s break
Valery Gergiev, the star Russian maestro and prominent supporter of President Vladimir V. Putin, was tapped on Friday to lead the storied Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, the Russian government announced. The move, effective immediately, will expand Mr. Gergiev’s dominance at the pinnacle of Russia culture. He already serves as the artistic and general director of