Jeremy Vine’s show on Channel 5 has been swamped with Ofcom complaints after guest star Nana Akua supported the idea that border patrol shouldn’t be prosecuted for not saving drowning refugees. GB News presenter Akua joined the programme on Friday 15 October where she joined Jeremy and Jemma Forte in a tense discussion on whether Border Force staff potentially being given immunity from prosecution should migrants drown while crossing the Channel. The debate was sparked after it was revealed Home Secretary Priti Patel is trying to introduce a clause to the Nationality and Borders Bill that could give officers legal protection. The Bill, which is currently being read by Parliament, would make it a criminal offence to arrive in the UK as an asylum seeker without prior permission. Akua said that it was ‘fair enough’ to know that you won’t be rescued if your boat sinks. ‘If people have come across from the Channel, from France, which is safe, why they would …
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How coronavirus has impacted travelers of color
In 2019, domestic and international travelers spent $1.1 trillion in the U.S. alone. However, this year, the COVID-19 has taken the wind out of travel sails/sales, causing a $910 billion loss to the country's economy—that's seven times the impact 9/11 had on the travel industry, according to the U.S. Travel Association. As destinations, airlines, hotels and other travel suppliers look for new streams of revenue, they may want to consider allocating their marketing dollars toward campaigns to attract consumers of color. Why? Because according to a Mandala Research survey in 2018, the impact of African American travelers demonstrated our growing contribution to the U.S. travel and tourism economy to the tune of $63 billion. And U.S. Hispanics represent more than $73 billion in leisure travel every year, according to the National Tour Association. Those are significant numbers that should not be ignored. Since people of color make up a significant amount of the travel industry's …
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An Italian pharmacist-mayor’s lesson from testing his town to save a region
Pulitzer Center Logo This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. One thing that has changed for Giulianio Martini since his father owned their historic pharmacy in northern Italy are the candies. The barley lollipops, once handmade by Martini's father and dispensed to the children who came through the storefront with their parents, are now pre-packaged, pre-purchased. The chamomile flavor, however, remains unchanged. As a two-term, 10 year mayor of Vò, he's seen the ongoing health crises from both medical and municipal sides. "The pharmacy has become a municipality desk for people who have problems, he said on a recent Wednesday. "If they need something, they write what they need and I put the bits of paper in my pockets ... then when I come up to the town hall we deal with them." Martini and his wife operate two pharmacies in Vò. The family's client was the first in Europe to succumb to the coronavirus. The death came amid a campaign of COVID-19 testing that in the …
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Compromise in sight as Boris Johnson vows to ‘fix’ hated ‘problem’ in EU deal
Frost calls for ‘flexible’ approach to Northern Ireland Protocol Sign up for FREE now and never miss the top politics stories again SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info The dispute over the Protocol has led to a trade war on the horizon, as the dispute between the UK and the European Union has heightened during negotiations. Related articles State pensions face fresh blow as BoE plans interest rate increase Boris announces Queen to give David Amess heartbreaking final tribute But Mr Johnson has now promised that a compromise will be reached to bring an end to the dispute. Speaking in an interview with Bloomberg News’s editor-in-chief, John Micklethwait, Mr Johnson said: “Is there a problem …
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Berlin Wall fragments land in Nitra
Though many fragments of the Berlin Wall have been placed around the world, the very first pieces were delivered to Slovakia this past weekend. They will form part of a new monument in the city of Nitra alongside one more L-shaped fragment, yet to arrive from the Berlin Wall Museum. “The concrete slabs on Bernauer Strasse were among the ‘first contact’ points where desperate attempts to escape from communism began and often ended,” Nitra mayor Marek Hattas posted on Facebook. Post by tibor.ujlacky . The Slovak city, which has been trying to obtain the pieces since 2014, will thus join other worldwide cities which, with fragments of the Berlin Wall, remind people that freedom cannot be taken for granted. Nitra has not yet been decided where in the centre the monument will be installed, but the spokesperson for the Diocese of Nitra, Tibor Ujlacký, who has long worked on having the fragments placed in Nitra, revealed more details about the donated segments. “The …
Billions of banknotes are missing. Why does nobody care?
O ne Saturday evening last October, a young woman called Tara Hanlon arrived at Heathrow airport with five suitcases. When a customs officer asked why she had so much luggage, she explained that she was going to Dubai with friends and didn’t know what she might want to wear. Hanlon’s long hair, plump lips and sculpted eyebrows gave her a passing resemblance to Kim Kardashian, but her diva-ish explanation didn’t satisfy the customs officer. Her bags were searched. The Economist today Handpicked stories, in your inbox A daily newsletter with the best of our journalism Sign up Inside were stack upon stack of banknotes – £1,940,120 ($2.7m) in total – strewn with coffee in an apparent attempt to confuse the sniffer dogs. Britain’s National Crime Agency later released a picture of the bundled piles of money, spread out across a table, the Queen’s face reproduced at different angles. It was Britain’s biggest cash seizure …
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Former envoy denounces U.S. deportations to Haiti
WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - A former U.S. special envoy to Haiti who blasted the Biden administration as he resigned last month over the deportations of hundreds of migrants told U.S. lawmakers on Thursday that Washington must rethink its approach to the Caribbean nation. "Deportation in the short term is not going to make Haiti more stable. In fact, it's going to make it worse," former envoy Daniel Foote told a briefing for the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, where both Democrats and Republicans denounced U.S. policy. Foote, a career diplomat named to his post in July, said Haiti was reeling from poverty, crime and other challenges and unable to support the infusion of returning migrants. He told the committee that, while serving as envoy, he had not been told about the deportations, which took place after thousands of Haitians - many of whom had been living for years outside their homeland - came to the U.S. border with Mexico. "I found out about it …
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‘Bunker Mentality’: Biden Has Done Six Times Less Press Interviews Than Trump As President | The Daily Wire
President Joe Biden has done just 10 extensive interviews with journalists since taking office, far fewer than either of his last two predecessors. Biden’s number of interviews is nearly six times less than former President Donald Trump had done by the same time in his presidency. The difference is much more stark compared to former President Barack Obama, who had completed 131 interviews by the same time, according to former CBS White House reporter Mark Knoller. Biden’s presidential interview count is also far off his pace when he was vice president in the Obama administration. By October 2009, Biden had completed roughly double the number of interviews he had as president. The dearth of interviews reflects the Biden administration’s “bunker mentality” and approach to the media, according to Politico. As the outlet reports: Biden’s team is quick to note that he often takes questions from reporters after he does events. Allies of the president are even quicker to note that no …
Tom Cotton: We Know What Is Behind Biden’s Secrecy With His Latest Scandal | The Daily Wire
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) addressed the Biden administration’s latest controversy, flying illegal aliens across the U.S. in the dead of night, by saying that the administration was desperately trying avoid the public seeing what they are doing because it is a political disaster for them. “The obvious reason why they’re flying these migrants across the country in the dead of night is because they don’t want to reveal the consequences of their open borders policy,” Cotton said. “Look, if they were proud of their policy, if they thought it was a political winner for them, they’d be having these flights in the middle of the daytime, they’d be coordinating it with the local TV stations, they’d be celebrating what they view as a great accomplishment.” “But they know that Joe Biden’s open border policy is a political disaster. So they’re trying to hide the consequences of that policy in the dark of night,” Cotton continued. “It’s very hurtful for President Biden politically, but it’s a …
ISIS-K Claims Responsibility For Kabul Terror Attack | The Daily Wire
The terror group known as “ISIS-K” has reportedly claimed responsibility for the Thursday terror attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed at least 13 U.S. service members and at least 95 Afghans. Although the Pentagon initially claimed there were two explosions, they said Friday afternoon that there was only one. As reported by Reuters, the Islamic State took responsibility for the attack — something that was highly suspected. Reuters reported: Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) , an affiliate of militants who previously battled U.S. forces in Syria and Iraq, said it had carried out the attack, which killed dozens of people – including Afghans who were trying to leave the country and at least a dozen U.S. service members. In claiming responsibility, Islamic State said a suicide bomber “managed to reach a large gathering of translators and collaborators with the American army at ‘Baran Camp’ near Kabul Airport and detonated his explosive belt among them, killing about …
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