Peace

This week’s three new releases include a box set collection from folk-rock duo Richard and Linda Thompson, a belter of a new record by Doves and pianist Igor Levit’s lockdown recitals.Richard and Linda Thompson: Hard Luck Stories (1972-1982) This exhaustive box set (eight CDs or a “big download”) tells the story…

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2019 file photo, Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen arrive prior to a campaign rally speech by appear in Minneapolis. Vice President Pence is bringing President Donald Trump's law-and-order campaign message to Minneapolis on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, showing support for law…

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Greece next week in a show of support following high tensions in the Mediterranean with Turkey, the State Department has announced. In his second trip to Greece in less than a year, Pompeo will go both to the northern city of…

Diaspora coalition, Yoruba One Voice (YOV), has assured participants that its October 1 sensitisation rally will be peaceful. YOV, present in 176 countries in six continents, is the umbrella union of over 300 groups of Yoruba descendants in the world. It said the self determination rally: ”Oodua Republic” sensitisation campaign…

New York — With the world focused on fighting the pandemic, a remarkable achievement went largely unnoticed in Africa. A court in Malawi annulled a rigged election and a peaceful rerun ushered into power a popular opposition. In June, the country’s 19 million citizens went back to the polls and…

Last November, British songwriter Sophie Jamieson ended her five year recording hiatus with the single “Hammer”, later following it up with an EP in March of the same name. Now, after announcing another EP scheduled for 2020 with 'Forward', Jamieson is striking while the iron is hot with the follow…

Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather for a formal group portrait on Nov. 30, 2018. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite) Associated Press Ruth Bader Ginsburg's colleagues on the US Supreme Court on Saturday released statements about her death and legacy. Ginsburg, who spent 27 years as an associate justice on the…

Published: 9:28pm, 19 Sep, 2020Updated: 4:20pm, 20 Sep, 2020Read More

There is no gainsaying the fact that Nigerians are languishing in their country as if in maximum prison. They feel like dying in the face of unmitigated hunger. They earnestly plead to the angel of death to terminate their souls which seem not worthy of existence. Or what is the…

After taking a four-year enforced hiatus, Into It. Over It. - the project of multi-instrumentalist and producer, Evan Thomas Weiss - is back with his new album, 'Figure'. The Chicago native’s fourth LP under the Into It. Over It. moniker, released via Big Scary Monsters, feels like the arrival of…