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What became of Elton John’s vanishing ex-wife Renate Blauel and why she came back to haunt him

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 In his barnstorming, brilliantly frank autobiography Me, published in October last year, Elton John recalls in some detail the day of his wedding to German sound engineer Renate Blauel. The bride looked gloriously beautiful in a white Lindka Cierach dress on that Valentine’s Day in Darling Point, Sydney, in 1984, wearing a heart-shaped pendant with … Read more

MARK ALMOND: We left Libya in ruins. Now, it’s a crucible of terror that has come back to haunt us

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The CIA calls it ‘blowback’, when the unintended consequences of what seemed like a good policy at the time come back to bite you. The classic example is Western sponsorship of radical Islamist fighters against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. That covert war against the Kremlin was a significant factor in crippling … Read more

Huge global debt burden will ‘haunt us’ all, warns top economist

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Huge global debt burden will ‘come back to haunt us’ all, warns top economist By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 13 May 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 13 May 2020 The trillions of pounds of extra debt which is being taken on by governments around the world will ‘come back to … Read more