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LONDON: Lauded in the West as the man who helped bring down the Berlin Wall and end the Cold Warwithout bloodshed, Mikhail Gorbachev was widely despised at home as the gravedigger of the communist Soviet Union. The former Soviet president,…

Under Mr. Briguet, Le Périgord became a family affair. His wife worked with him there, as did their son Christopher, who was a manager for 30 years. Ms. Le Gall, too, worked at the restaurant, for 10 years, along with Eric, Jean-Luc, who is…

But in a plan devised by the state, Mr. Ellinghaus was named chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation, which was created to contain the crisis, and was later appointed to the Emergency Financial Control Board, which took over city…

Alok Sharma was hardly a household name in Britain, let alone the rest of the world, when appointed to lead the UN climate talks now reaching a climax in Glasgow. But with the planet’s future at stake, the COP26 president has had to emerge…