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It’s best to use romano (long) peppers for this traditional dip, as the skins aren’t as tough as on bell peppers, says Imad Alarnab. But if bell peppers are all you have available, you can simply use the method below to remove the skins. Serves four to six.

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Cycling through Turkey’s Taurus Mountains

They rise just north of the sprawling coastal resort of Antalya, but Turkey’s western Taurus Mountains are a sparsely populated “hard-bitten corner of the Mediterranean hinterland”, home to timeless villages and “barely explored” ancient ruins.

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Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days. With Guy Anker, Holden Frith and Sorcha Bradley.

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China’s ‘sluggish’ economy: squeezing the middle classes

Here we go again, said Xin Ping on Xinhuanet (Beijing). China recently released economic data indicating that its post-Covid recovery has been slightly weaker than hoped in 2023 – so, as ever, foreign commentators are now bleating about China’s “sluggish” economy and predicting its imminent collapse.

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Why is Europe sweltering while the UK is a washout?

A raging heatwave is baking southern Europe with temperatures expected to reach as high as 49C in some parts.

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Agriculture explained in 60 seconds: ideas that changed the world

In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world.

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Zelenskyy sacks Ukraine ambassador to UK after sarcasm row

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sacked his country’s ambassador to the UK after a row over the Ukrainian president’s perceived ingratitude towards the British government.

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Quiz of The Week: 15 July - 21 July

It’s been a topsy-turvy week for politics, with three big by-elections and a few controversial pledges. Although Labour stormed to victory in Selby and Ainsty, leader Keir Starmer found himself on the ropes when he promised to maintain a deeply unpopular two-child benefit cap policy.

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Five key takeaways from 2023 by-elections

The Tories, Labour and the Liberal Democrats are all claiming positives after each party achieved a dramatic victory in yesterday’s by-elections.

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Non-aligned no longer: Sweden embraces Nato

So there it is, said Erik Helmerson in Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm): “One hundred and fifty years of Swedish neutrality has been replaced by something new.” In a surprising – and very welcome – development last week, Turkey finally dropped its opposition to Sweden’s accession to Nato, so paving the way for…

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Tate Modern: A World in Common

During the colonial period, when Africa was almost entirely divided up by European powers, “the camera became something of an imperial device”, said Sarah Cascone on Artnet.

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China’s ‘breathtaking’ infiltration of UK economy: an existential threat?

China is engaged in a “whole-of-state” assault on the UK – and the Government’s response to this “onslaught” has been “completely inadequate”.

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Why Thailand’s election winner was stopped from becoming prime minister

Pita Limjaroenrat’s bid to be nominated as Thailand’s new prime minister has ended, despite his victory in the general election.

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Beethoven’s skull is returned to Vienna

Fragments of Ludwig van Beethoven’s skull have returned to Vienna where the rest of the composer is buried. The fragments were donated to the Medical University of Vienna by US businessman Paul Kaufmann who inherited them from his mother, who in turn, received them from her great-uncle physician and medical…

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The Great: season three of the raucous comedy-drama set in imperial Russia

“For those yet to fall for its ample charms, ‘The Great’ plays hard and fast with the rise of Catherine the Great, Empress of all Russia,” said Rebecca Nicholson in The Guardian.

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Miss Saigon review: Sheffield Theatres’ electrifying revival

The blockbuster musical “Miss Saigon” ran for ten years in London and New York following its launch in 1989, but it was always controversial, said Paul Szabo on What’s On Stage.

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Daniel Morgan murder: Met apologises for ‘corruption’ in unsolved case

The Metropolitan Police has apologised to the family of murdered private investigator Daniel Morgan, admitting liability for an unsolved case “marred by a cycle of corruption, professional incompetence and defensiveness”.

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Why police have reopened the Tupac Shakur murder case

Nearly three decades after the murder of hip-hop superstar Tupac Shakur, Las Vegas police have reopened their investigation into the unsolved case.

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How to ask for a pay rise to combat inflation

Average wages in the UK are now rising faster than inflation, meaning employees should act sooner rather than later if they want a pay rise. But how should you go about trying to get one?

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Two young brothers launch model boats to circumnavigate Antarctica

Two brothers from Aberdeenshire have built model boats that they hope will circumnavigate Antarctica. Ollie and Harry Ferguson, 13 and 11, were inspired by the Ross expedition of 1839-43, which led to the discovery of the Ross Ice Shelf. They built one metre-long replicas of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror,…

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Susan Hall: the Tory London mayor candidate taking on Sadiq Khan

Conservative members have chosen Susan Hall as the party’s candidate to try to unseat Sadiq Khan in the 2024 London mayoral election.

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Residents told to stay indoors after lion seen on outskirts of Berlin

German authorities have warned locals in Berlin’s southern suburbs to stay indoors after reports that a female lion was at large.

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Huw Edwards and the question of ‘public interest’

Many important things happened last week, said John Simpson in The i Paper. The US sent a consignment of cluster bombs to Ukraine. The Nato summit was held in Vilnius. We learnt that Boris Johnson had failed to hand over his WhatsApp messages to the Covid Inquiry because, he claimed,…

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Where is China’s missing foreign minister Qin Gang?

China’s foreign minister Qin Gang has not been seen in public for three weeks, leading to speculation about his whereabouts and wellbeing.

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The dramatic rise of vaping in the UK

About 4.3 million people in Britain are now estimated to use e-cigarettes, up from 800,000 a decade ago.

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