Sam Moore, the surviving half and higher voice of the 1960s duo Sam & Dave that was known for such definitive hits of the era as Soul Man and Hold On, I’m Comin,’ has died. He was 89. Publicist Jeremy Westby said Moore died Friday morning in Coral Gables, Florida, due to complications while recovering…
Eliza and Henrietta Huszti were last seen walking on a bridge in central Aberdeen in the early hours of Jan. 7.
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.
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.
The warning was for third-country operators authorized by EASA, given that Russian airspace has been closed to European Union airlines.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…