Sublime

This vast realm of geographical ignorance reduced European activity in the Outer World to an archipelago of settlements, mines and trading depots connected by a skein of pathways kept open only by constant effort.

Honecker

One such imprint was noted by Disraeli’s long-term political companion and ultimately his enemy, Edward Stanley, the 15th Earl of Derby, in his diaries. There is no repetition anywhere of the conversation which Disraeli held with Stanley in 1851 in which he expounded the advantages of creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine. But it is clear that

Before 2015 ends, the United Kingdom joins in the effort to try to crush Trump. A half-million people sign a petition to ban him from Britain. British prime minister David Cameron weighs in, calling the GOP candidate “stupid” and “wrong.” Most people don’t know it, and the news media doesn’t report it, but there’s a Clinton connection here, too.

Sérgio Moro, the one-time star judge of the Lava Jato investigation, was one minister whose allegiance looked likely to come into question. Moro had controversially joined Bolsonaro’s team in 2018 to take over the justice portfolio. He had argued that his presence in the administration was the best guarantee that the clean-up of political

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Once elected, Lula backed up his commitment to stability by appointing Henrique Meirelles, a banker who had contested the election as a candidate for a senatorial seat for Cardoso’s PSDB party, to the central bank. The incoming finance minister, Antônio Palocci, appointed a series of ‘market-friendly’ technocrats to advise him. Palocci had been a

Despite his apparent private misgivings, Rabin continued to shore up support for the Oslo Accords. To demonstrate to Israel and to the world that the Jewish state remained behind the agreements it had signed with Arafat, he and Shimon Peres called for a massive pro-peace rally in Tel Aviv on November 4, 1995.

At the start, the situation had been complicated by the fact that the so-called Cloak and Dagger boys, under the control of a mysterious Colonel Grand and the Foreign Office, were involved in this adventure. But it had now been decided that they should break away from the War Office and go off on their own. This left Colonel Holland with a