Rugby, Champions Cup : «Nous avons été catastrophiques en première mi-temps», s’agace Bru malgré la victoire de l’UBB

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Country has previously accused Belarus of a ‘cynical hybrid attack’

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In Europe, road-tripping drivers are brought face to face with jaw-dropping views that change at every turn

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He made buildings that looked like slouching drunks and quarrelling couples but it was the Spanish museum that secured his ‘starchitect’ status – a creation that became something of a curse
Frank Gehry once had a cameo in The Simpsons in which he designed buildings by scrunching up pieces of paper. There was a bit more to it than that, but from Prague to Panama City, his scrunched contours were instantly recognisable, expressed in an exuberant parade of buildings that cranked and slumped as if hit by a wrecking ball, or crashed and whirled like dervishes, defying laws of gravity and structural logic. Though Gehry, who has died aged 96, came of age in the era of modernism, it was as if he were physically incapable of drawing a straight line.
In his prime, Gehry’s architecture was a rebuff to modernist imperators such as Mies van der Rohe and his po-faced injunction, “less is more”. The American postmodern theorist and architect Robert Venturi turned it on its head, quipping “less is a bore”. It summed up the maximalist Gehry perfectly.
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Europe has backed the idea of a ‘reassurance force’ to help Ukraine rebuild its war-weary army, but what does that mean in reality?

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Russia launched overnight drone attack on 29 locations in Ukraine

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More than 650 drones target locations across Ukraine including western regions with sirens sounding in eastern Poland
Russia launched a massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine in the early hours of Saturday as US and Ukrainian officials continued talks in Miami which the White House hopes will bring an end to the conflict.
Russia used more than 650 drones and 51 missiles overnight, Ukraine’s armed forces said, with drones targeting locations across the country, including in western regions hundreds of miles from the frontline. Warning sirens also sounded in parts of eastern Poland, close to the Ukrainian border.
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