Trump and Kim likely chose Metropole for its ability to keep secrets, Nguyen Dinh Thanh, former head of marketing at Metropole, told Reuters.
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The Brighton Metropole, the conference's main hotel, is seething with people.
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Hotel Metropole is in Monte Carlo, the city-state's glitziest neighborhood.
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Metropole Television said its Q3 EBITA rose at 34.2 million euros.
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That's how I did the segue from Art Metropole to Printed Matter.
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He tries to be the metropole of Eurasia, like Russia in Soviet times.
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But just before lunch on Thursday, the expectant mood in the Metropole changed.
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French TV company Metropole Television announced on Monday a renewal of its broadcasting license.
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Coincidentally, Liu stayed in room 911 on the ninth floor of the Metropole Hotel.
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Trump left the Metropole Hotel, where the summit took place, before 2628:28503 p.m.
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The Metropole Hotel, Hanoi's finest, has an underground bomb shelter that's been restored for tours.
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Trump is to meet Kim at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi at 19753:21975 p.m.
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The British insisted that Ireland continue to feed the colonial metropole despite the crop failure.
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Once Mr. Trump's motorcade left the Metropole Hotel, it was clear that the deal was off.
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Wednesday in Washington, with a one-on-one meeting between Trump and Kim at the Metropole Hotel.
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It's possible to get married under the sea in Monaco, thanks to the Hotel Metropole Monte-Carlo.
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H: What about [the Toronto-based nonprofit art center] Art Metropole, which General Idea founded in 1974?
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The two leaders departed the Metropole, the French-colonial hotel where the talks unfolded, around 1:30 p.m.
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They chatted and gestured in the leafy courtyard of the French-colonial era Metropole hotel, before returning indoors.
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The White House said Trump would meet Kim at Hanoi's French-colonial-era Metropole Hotel at 6:30 p.m.
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Trump gave Kim both Korean and English-language versions of the U.S. position at Hanoi's Metropole hotel on Feb.
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The people of Monaco can shop at one of the 80 stores found in the luxurious Metropole Shopping Center ...
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Many of the rich stay at the Hotel Metropole, where a room can cost up to $41,000 a night.
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The Hotel Metropole in Monte-Carlo recently launched an underwater wedding package, and it's unlike anything we've ever seen.
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The US and North Korean delegations are participating in two days of high-stakes negotiations at Hanoi's Metropole Hotel.
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A Reuters witness saw Vietnamese soldiers in camouflaged fatigues sweeping the area around the Metropole with a metal detector.
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About eight years ago, employees of the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi discovered a secret passageway in the city's oldest hotel.
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On February 21, SARS went global, after an infected doctor working in Guangdong province checked into Hong Kong's Metropole Hotel.
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The South Korean news media reported on Tuesday that the summit meetings on Thursday could take place at the Metropole.
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H: And through FILE, Art Metropole emerged — an archive, shop, and distribution center for artists' printed matter, video, and ephemera.
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I spent a night at Hotel Metropole my first night in town and got a taste of the millionaire Monaco lifestyle.
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The next morning, I met Bourdain in the lobby of the Metropole, and we drove to the outskirts of the city.
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The summit kicked off with a brief one-on-one meeting between the two leaders at the historic Metropole hotel in Hanoi.
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For most of history, both narratives were marginal, as distant from the mainstream of culture as the poles are from the metropole.
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President Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, complimented each other in opening remarks at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi.
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AAB: Yes, two years later we started Art Metropole (in 1974) because FILE Megazine was such a success internationally — mostly among artists.
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Kim and Trump shook hands in front of a row of their countries' flags at the Metropole hotel in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi.
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Another is the colonial-era Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, where Senator John McCain of Arizona tended to stay on his trips to Vietnam.
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The next day, for the first time ever, Kim answered questions from American reporters as he sat down with Trump at the Metropole.
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It was in 22017 that Frantz Fanon pointed out in The Wretched of the Earth that fascism is really just colonialism in the metropole.
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French outdoor advertising company JCDecaux said on Monday it had won the smart street furniture and self-service bike rental contract for Lyon Metropole.
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At the Metropole this week, all guests have been required to pass through metal detectors and to show specially stamped identification papers to enter.
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Kim and Trump shook hands and smiled briefly in front of a row of their countries' flags at the Metropole hotel in the Vietnamese capital.
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Die 14-Millionen-Metropole Guangzhou kündigte am Mittwoch an, den Kindern von Mietern künftig das Recht einzuräumen, eine Schule nahe dem Wohnsitz besuchen zu dürfen.
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They said the Metropole Hotel will be a backup location for the summit and Kim could possibly stay in the Melia hotel during his visit.
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One of those options is Hotel Metropole, where rates range from about $417 a night to upwards of $8,500 a night for its signature suites.
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Nearly one in six people in the Caribbean are still governed by a distant metropole, whether it be the United States, the Netherlands, or France.
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The elegant interior of the 203-year-old Metropole thronged with security personnel and hotel staff on the summit eve as final preparations were made.
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A few weeks later, a physician who had himself become sick from treating patients with atypical pneumonia stayed at the Metropole Hotel in Hong Kong.
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Trump and Kim were dining at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam, after a roughly 2900-minute one-on-one meeting to start their second summit.
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Trump and Kim were dining at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam, after a roughly 20-minute one-on-one meeting to start their second summit.
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Later, Trump gruffly rejected a question from a reporter about Cohen as he sat beside Kim for their initial meet-and-greet at the Metropole Hotel.
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Unexpected message from Kim The negotiations were coming to a close at Hanoi's Metropole Hotel when a North Korean official rushed over to the US delegation.
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Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim began the day with a one-on-one meeting at the historic Metropole hotel, where they dined together the night before.
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The Metropole, a grand, colonial-era hotel in the center of Hanoi's French Quarter, had seemed swept along with the hope the day before the summit unraveled.
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But just a few hours later, both men had abruptly pulled out of a planned lunch, leaving elegant place settings in a restaurant at the Metropole untouched.
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Bourdain slowed down to ask a pedestrian for directions, and the man indicated that, to reach the Metropole Hotel, we should hang a left around Hoàn Kiếm Lake.
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But soon after the two men arrived at the Metropole, the North Korean leader began arguing for relief from the five rounds of sanctions in exchange for Yongbyon.
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She even went viral at one point when she seemed to be hiding in the plants as Kim Jong Un met with the US president at the Metropole Hotel.
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My night at Hotel Metropole, with its five-star amenities and central location, was a luxurious experience made possible only by the media discount the hotel offered my company.
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In Hanoi, the two sides gathered at the Metropole, a grand hotel built during the French colonial era, where they met in a conference room by the swimming pool.
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The WHO eventually estimated that roughly 215,000 of the world's total SARS cases (about half) during that outbreak could be traced back to Liu's stay at the Metropole Hotel.
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Officials say the colonial-era Government Guest House in central Hanoi is expected to be the venue for the Trump-Kim meeting, with the nearby Metropole Hotel as a backup.
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A Reuters witness saw Kim's close aide, Kim Chang Son, in Hanoi on Saturday visiting a government guesthouse and the Metropole and Melia hotels in the centre of the capital.
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After the gala, private cars and yacht-show courtesy cars were parked outside the venue to drive VIPs the four or five minutes back to their hotels like the Metropole.
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Pool reporters who had been waiting in the dining room at the Metropole Hotel, where the summit is taking place, were originally told lunch had been delayed for 30 minutes.
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A Reuters witness saw Kim's close aide, Kim Chang Son, in Hanoi on Saturday visiting a government guesthouse and the Metropole and Melia hotels in the center of the capital.
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But no one ever sat down at the elegantly set table in the century-old Metropole Hotel, and there was no signing ceremony because there was no communiqué to sign.
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Plates of foie gras and snow fish were left uneaten as the two leaders departed the Hotel Metropole before a planned bilateral lunch and the expected signing of a joint statement.
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At ultraluxury hotels like Hotel Hermitage, Hotel de Paris, and Hotel Metropole, you won't find a basic room for less than $400 per night, and many suites cost thousands of dollars.
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Held at the Hotel Metropole Monte-Carlo in its Odyssey, an outdoor concept designed by Karl Lagerfeld in 2013, the space is part alfresco, part pool, part garden, part art mural.
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Another option is said to be the colonial-era Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, where Senator John McCain of Arizona liked to stay and chat with reporters on his trips to Vietnam.
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First, that populism is a reaction to the breakdown of community outside the liberal metropole, a breakdown that the fiscally conservative-socially liberal "centrism" of our leaders has worsened or left unaddressed.
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Suggesting that Hong Kongers, almost all of whom are Han Chinese, are also terrorists would be a major shift in how Beijing views the city and its relationship to the Chinese metropole.
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In 2003, a Chinese doctor who was staying at the Metropole Hotel in the city of Guangzhou infected other hotel guests who then traveled back to Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore and Canada.
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They are expected to meet for their second summit in Hanoi's Government Guesthouse, an elegant, colonial-era building in the city center, or at the nearby Metropole Hotel, sources have told Reuters.
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The story is insane ... West -- a 3rd round pick in the 2014 draft -- says he was at the Metropole South Beach hotel with a buddy back in February when all hell broke loose.
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Days before the second summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump, to be held in Vietnam's capital, a Kim impersonator appeared at the Metropole Hotel, a back-up location for the meeting.
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A one-day pass to the prestigious Monaco Grand Prix costs $328, and many of the superrich attendees stay at the Hotel Metropole, where a room can cost up to $41,000 a night.
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The Metropole also hosted Graham Greene, who wrote part of his seminal 1955 work, "The Quiet American" there, and numerous war correspondents during the 20-year-long Vietnam War that ended in 1975.
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I had just spent nearly four years reporting on the bloody failure of the American imperial project in Iraq, and now I was in the metropole that was building a new world order.
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Trump and Kim are expected to meet for their second summit in Hanoi's Government Guesthouse, an elegant, colonial-era building in the city center, or at the nearby Metropole Hotel, sources have told Reuters.
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And on Wednesday night, when the two men met again at the Metropole, it was clear from the body language that something had changed since their first warm embrace in Singapore eight months ago.
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Even staff at the Metropole itself were not sure until the eve of the summit if they, or the Government Guesthouse, a colonial-era building just opposite the hotel, would be hosting the event.
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Being at the Metropole gave the Reuters correspondents a peek behind the security cordon as staff arranged for Trump and Kim to meet, dine together for the first time, and walk in the gardens.
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On Wednesday evening, Trump is scheduled to meet Kim at the city's Metropole hotel, eight months after their first summit in Singapore, to discuss efforts to get North Korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons program.
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The head of the Paris Autolib Velib Metropole syndicate last week said she would propose ending the contract with the Bollore group due to budget shortfalls and operational problems with the electric car hire scheme.
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It didn't help that I was staying in the Metropole hotel, where the meeting was being held, and security personnel blanketed the lobby with a cellphone suppression technology that keeps terrorists from detonating bombs remotely.
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Trump and Kim met in the Vietnamese capital for the second summit since their first historic meeting in June last year and had dinner at the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel in the center of Hanoi.
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In the international media center less than a mile from the Metropole, reporters frantically refreshed their Twitter feeds, seeking updates from their colleagues in the travel pool or looking for statements from the White House.
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Outside the Metropole Hotel, across the street from Moscow's famous Bolshoi Theater, Garland and his wife were observed getting into a sedan with diplomatic license plates registered to the North Korean embassy, the document says.
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The ground floor of the new MOCA includes a bookstore that is being run by Art Metropole, which on opening weekend appeared scant with few notable titles, save for a small table, and one small shelf.
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PARIS, July 27 (Reuters) - France's Metropole Television (M6) has begun exclusive talks with U.S. investment fund General American Capital Partners (GACP) to sell its stake in FC Girondins de Bordeaux soccer club, it said on Friday.
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As he arrived at the swanky Metropole Hotel on Wednesday to advance his historic direct diplomacy with Kim, Trump was quickly upstaged by the damning congressional testimony of his longtime former attorney and adviser Michael Cohen.
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AAB: We thought we would set up Art Metropole as a kind of distribution center for not only artists' books, but video, because there were no video distributors at that time — and audio stuff, artist records.
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PARIS, June 15 (Reuters) - The head of the Paris Autolib Velib Metropole syndicate will propose ending the electric car hire scheme contract with the Bollore group, daily newspaper Le Parisien quoted her as saying on its website.
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First, a bit of history: Nguyen Van Dao says that back in 1946, his father Nguyen Van Giang, a barman at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hotel in Hanoi, ran out of milk to serve with the coffee.
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He was among two dozen Metropole guests touring an underground air raid bunker at the hotel used during the Vietnam War that was rediscovered by chance in 2011 while the hotel was renovating its poolside Bamboo bar.
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He is a founder of FILE Magazine, Toronto; Art Metropole, Toronto; The NY Art Book Fair, New York; The Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice, New York; and AA Bronson's School for Young Shamans, which is nomadic.
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When I checked out of Hotel Metropole, I asked the hotel to call me a taxi to take me to the train station, so I could check in and drop off my luggage at my Airbnb in Nice.
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Trump and Kim will meet at the Metropole at 6:30 pm (1130 GMT) on Wednesday, where the two will have a 20-minute one-on-one chat followed by a dinner with aides, the White House said.
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Despite its long history of hosting VIPs, the Metropole is not an ideal summit venue from a security point of view, said Le Van Cuong, who used to head the strategy institute of the Ministry of Public Security.
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"I think very importantly, the relationship is, you know, just very strong," Mr. Trump said on Thursday morning as he sat with Mr. Kim before a phalanx of cameras at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital.
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Cover image: US President Donald Trump (R) walks with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during a break in talks at the second US-North Korea summit at the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel in Hanoi on February 28, 2019.
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As chefs and hotel staff were poised to put the final touches to their creations, the White House announced Trump and Kim would be leaving the Metropole hotel in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, without a deal, and without lunch.
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On Friday, as Mr. Trump woke up in the White House after his grueling trip, the long wooden table that had been moved into a meeting room of the Metropole Hotel for the signing ceremony still sat there, unused.
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"Great meetings" and a "Very good dialogue," Trump said on Twitter after dinner with Kim at Hanoi's French-colonial-era Metropole hotel while the White House said the two planned to sign a "joint agreement" after further talks on Thursday.
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Cover image: In this handout photo provided by Vietnam News Agency, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their second summit meeting at the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel on February 28, 2019 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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The Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi has hosted dignitaries and celebrities from Charlie Chaplin on his honeymoon in 23 to "Hanoi Jane" Fonda during her 220s anti-war campaign and even Trump himself on a recent visit to the Vietnamese capital.
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The Metropole could begin a new chapter as a symbol of peace if Trump and Kim, as some officials in Seoul and Washington expect, formally declare an end to the last remaining Cold War conflict after their two-day summit.
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Now, with the White House's confirmation that Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim would dine at the storied Metropole Hotel on Wednesday night, all bets are on that hotel to be the venue for the working sessions on Thursday as well.
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" As Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim parted company, nearly a year of optimism and flattery was left poolside at the Metropole, steps from a meeting room with two empty chairs and flags that had been carefully prepared for a "signing ceremony.
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In the 1970s, the group launched the subversive and wildly popular FILE Megazine — with a title and logo cheekily appropriated from LIFE magazine — and opened up Art Metropole, an archive, shop, and distribution center for artists' printed matter in Toronto.
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Manama, Bahrain (CNN)In the Trump administration's vision of the future, Gaza City looks a lot more like Tel Aviv: a bustling metropole with scintillating beaches, beckoning tourists from around the world who have no reason to fear the potential for Israeli airstrikes.
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"We are not planning a major subscription fee increase, we do not want to lose our customers," said Marie-Pierre de la Gontrie, head of the Syndicat Velib Metropole which oversees the scheme, but she added that the electric bikes would cost more.
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SARS escaped southern China when Dr. Liu Jianlun, a 64-year-old Guangdong resident visiting Hong Kong's Metropole Hotel somehow — possibly by vomiting in a hallway — infected several other travelers who then flew overseas, setting off outbreaks in Singapore, Vietnam and Canada.
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"I thought the first summit was a great success, and I think hopefully this one will be equal or greater," Trump said during his first Hanoi encounter with Kim, a solo meeting inside the French colonial Metropole Hotel in the historic city center.
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In February 2300, then 21-year-old Dr. Liu Jianlun checked into Room 21 of what was then known as the Metropole Hotel, a 219-room, three-star hotel located in Hong Kong's Kowloon district, according to the WHO's chronology of events.
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Nightly rates at the trifecta of luxury hotels in Monaco start at about $400My first night in Monaco, I got to stay at the opulent Hotel Metropole Monte-Carlo, where rooms start at $417 and cost upwards of $8,500 for the most luxurious suites.
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The show's layout and selection make it clear that the movement should not be seen as hierarchical, with Paris as the metropole and all the other clusters of activity – in Mexico, Martinique, Argentina, Chile and Egypt – as marginal, effects of cultural cringe and colonialism.
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"I just said, 'Good evening, officers' and they gave me a nod and kept walking," recalled Mr. Murphy, who then hailed a cab on Columbus Avenue — not to the penthouse suite but to the Metropole Cafe in Midtown, to check out Gene Krupa's jazz band.
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I turned up at a Jeremy Corbyn event in the Metropole on Sunday evening fully expecting to be disappointed (he was only "scheduled" to speak which is Conference speak for we invited him but he didn't reply) or at the very least to be kept waiting.
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But the creation in 2016 of a Greater Paris authority - or Metropole du Grand Paris - modeled on the Greater London Authority, was not followed by the abolition of the redundant sub-authorities beneath it due to resistance from local mayors, effectively adding yet another layer of bureaucracy.
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Cozy relationship with a brutal dictator The two leaders once again put their chummy personal relationship on display, walking along the flower-lined pool deck at the Metropole engaging in friendly conversation to give the cameras an opportunity to capture them in a more casual setting.
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Still, as Trump headed to Hanoi's posh Metropole Hotel for his first meeting with Kim in eight months, he still trusted in the power of his personal diplomacy with Kim, believing he might be able to charm Kim into an agreement once they met face-to-face.
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He played swing and Dixieland at jazz clubs in Manhattan like the Onyx, Eddie Condon's, the Three Deuces and the Metropole, where he recorded a live album released in 19943; at restaurants, hotels and motels; and outside the Louisiana pavilion at the World's Fair in Queens in 21994.
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The sometimes-contentious talks held inside the green-shuttered Metropole Hotel here were cut short when it became clear to Trump and his aides that Kim would not accept any outcome less than a full removal of crippling economic sanctions -- a request North Korea's foreign minister later denied.
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In a dinner at the Metropole Hotel the evening before, mere feet from the bomb shelter where guests took cover during the Vietnam War, Mr. Kim had resisted what Mr. Trump presented as a grand bargain: North Korea would trade all its nuclear weapons, material and facilities for an end to the American-led sanctions squeezing its economy.
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Mr. Trump's first meeting with Mr. Kim this week will be on Wednesday evening, White House officials said, with a one-on-one discussion at the colonial-era Metropole hotel before a dinner that will include Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff; and possibly Kim Yong-chol, North Korea's former intelligence chief and top diplomat.
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Trump and Kim held a 20-minute, one-on-one chat before they sat down to dinner with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Trump's acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, Kim's top envoy Kim Yong Chol and North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho. On Thursday, the two leaders are scheduled for a series of meetings at the Metropole, beginning with another one-on-one session lasting 45 minutes, the White House said.
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In his memoir of Neruda, Volodia Teitelboim, a friend and fellow Chilean Communist, reports that the recipient of the 1952 Stalin Peace Prize was, on his many stays in Moscow, often put up at the Metropole Hotel, an establishment much favored under the czar by nobles and rich bourgeois, where Neruda enjoyed "an apartment complete with a pair of grand pianos, enormous bathtubs decorated with purple flowers, and huge emerald-green leaves," and so on.
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The press conference would be the first explanation of what had - and hadn't - happened, but slow communication links from the hotel hosting the briefing meant Reuters had to rely on two correspondents in the room to phone in alerts as Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke Perhaps nothing symbolized the chasm between hopes and reality more than the forlorn remnants of the lunch and signing ceremony that had been prepared at the Metropole.
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The press conference would be the first explanation of what had - and hadn't - happened, but slow communication links from the hotel hosting the briefing meant Reuters had to rely on two correspondents in the room to phone in alerts as Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke Perhaps nothing symbolized the chasm between hopes and reality more than the forlorn remnants of the lunch and signing ceremony that had been prepared at the Metropole.
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