When dancer-turned-model-turned-actress Margaret Qualley attended the Golden Globe Awards this week alongside her dad, many people did a double take. There was something familiar about her date, but few realised Qualley’s parents were famous in their own rights; her dad was a former model while her mother is beloved Hollywood actress Andie MacDowell. Now the…
The warning was for third-country operators authorized by EASA, given that Russian airspace has been closed to European Union airlines.
Maduro was declared the winner of July’s election by both Venezuela’s electoral authority and top court, though detailed tallies confirming his victory have never been published.
Last year’s global average temperature easily passed 2023’s record heat and kept pushing even higher. It surpassed the long-term warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Eliza and Henrietta Huszti were last seen walking on a bridge in central Aberdeen in the early hours of Jan. 7.
Brazil will seek to build relationships and not worsen an already tense global mood, while holding the rotating presidency of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, a top official told AFP. Diplomat Eduardo Saboia, head of the BRICS summit to be held in Rio de Janeiro in July, brushed off recent threats from incoming US…
This weekend, January 11-12, U.K. Chancellor Rachel Reeves will be visiting Mainland China. The Labour government, which came to power thanks to an election landslide in July 2024, considers the trip to be of great importance to the U.K. economy. But according to Politico reporters Hannah Brenton and Dan Bloom, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s “virulent…
by Olivier BAUBE / Max DELANY Donald Trump hasn’t even moved back into the White House yet — but the volatile US president-elect has already succeeded in rattling his counterparts in the EU. With under two weeks to go to his inauguration, Trump set alarm bells ringing with a string of provocative statements including refusing…
by Nina LARSON Australia violated the rights of asylum seekers arbitrarily detained on the island of Nauru, a UN watchdog ruled Thursday, in a warning to other countries intent on outsourcing asylum processing. The UN Human Rights Committee published decisions in two cases involving 25 refugees and asylum seekers who endured years of arbitrary detention…
A Vietnamese court jailed a prominent former lawyer for three years on Friday over Facebook posts, a ruling condemned by rights groups as a fresh attack on freedom of expression in the communist country. Tran Dinh Trien, former deputy chair of the Hanoi Bar Association, is the latest high-profile lawyer to be targeted by authorities…