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Shumeet Banerji was away during crucial discussions that led to resignation of director general and BBC News chief
A member of the BBC’s board has resigned after stating he was cut out of the discussions that led to the shock resignation of its director general, Tim Davie.
Shumeet Banerji, a tech industry executive, was out of the country on the crucial days before the departure of Davie and the head of BBC News, Deborah Turness.
The comments by General Fabien Mandon in a speech to local mayors on Tuesday have revived a debate over how far France and its European allies should be prepared to go in the conflict. Source link
Peter Sands, the director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, discusses the stakes of the donor countries’ summit set to open in Johannesburg on Friday. Source link
Architect Farshid Moussavi is behind a tranquil and timeless new building where Houston’s 40,000-strong Ismaili Muslim community can come together. But how has she created something that looks so delicate out of stone? On a hot autumn day in southern Texas, monarch butterflies flit around the gardens of Houston’s new Ismaili Centre. Fragile and gaudy, they are on their way south to overwinter in Mexico, travelling up to 3,000 miles in a typical migration cycle, an epic feat of insectile endurance. Their combination of delicacy and stamina is an apt metaphor for the Ismaili Centre, a building that has…