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Violence in Greece over efforts to preserve ancient heritage of Mykonos | Greece

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[ad_1] Under cover of darkness in an Athens side street earlier this month, Manolis Psarros, an archaeologist, was attacked as he walked toward his car. It was 8.30pm, later than usual for the state employee to return home from his office in a neo-classical culture ministry building beneath the Acropolis. “There was a general strike […]

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It’s a Constable – but not the one you know – in a new show of forged art | Art

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[ad_1] A Constable seascape that will hang in London’s Courtauld gallery this summer shows sailboats and a steam vessel bobbing on a choppy sea beneath one of the artist’s typical imposing skies. Except this Constable is not all it seems. Experts at the gallery found incriminating evidence in a cut-off paper watermark, “184-”, meaning that

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New allegations and a resignation strain already fraught China-Canada relations | Canada

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[ad_1] The abrupt resignation of a Canadian lawmaker over allegations he secretly met with a Chinese diplomat has escalated a row over allegations that Beijing meddled in Canadian elections – and highlighted the complex and often fraught relationship between the two countries. Han Dong, a member of the governing Liberal party, was reported to have

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Paris in the springtime: 10 of the best hotels with a view | Travel

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[ad_1] Mama Shelter, La Défense Photograph: Francis Amiand If it’s views you’re after, it doesn’t get better than Mama Shelter La Défense in Paris’s business district. Yes, it’s a bit further out, but there’s a metro and you can shoot into the centre in 15 minutes. There’s everything here that is signature Mama Shelter: quirky

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Architect Lesley Lokko: ‘There is a sense in Africa that it is our time’ | Lesley Lokko

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[ad_1] “Africa” says Lesley Lokko, stopping over in a London hotel on the way from Accra to Venice, “is the world’s youngest continent. It is the most rapidly urbanising and has the fewest architects.” It is therefore a place of instability and invention, minimally constrained by professional structures, where the “speed of change is likely

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Jonathan Majors arrested in New York after police called to domestic dispute | Jonathan Majors

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[ad_1] The actor Jonathan Majors has been arrested in New York on charges of strangulation, assault and harassment. New York City police said Majors, the star of Creed III and Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, was involved in a domestic dispute on Saturday with a 30-year-old woman. Police responded at about 11am to a 911

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Lebanon split into two time zones in row over daylight saving | Lebanon

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[ad_1] The Lebanese government’s last-minute decision to delay the start of daylight savings time by a month until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has resulted in mass confusion. With some institutions implementing the change while others refused, many Lebanese have found themselves in the position of juggling work and school schedules

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Stretching his 15 minutes of fame: why Andy Warhol still has the power to inspire | Andy Warhol

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[ad_1] When he appears in Nicole Flattery’s recently published novel Nothing Special, Andy Warhol is a spectral presence. “I never saw him come in but I felt the atmosphere change when he did,” Flattery writes from the watchful point of view of the teenage narrator of the book. The coming-of-age novel set in the mid

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Back-to-work schemes in England previously funded by EU forced to close | Unemployment

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[ad_1] Back-to-work schemes across England previously paid for by the EU are being forced to close and lay off staff, despite a last-minute rule change by the government aimed at allowing councils to fund them. Michael Gove’s Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) wrote to local authorities last week giving them the green

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