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GMB: Kate Garraway says she is being 'shouted at' by producer Sign up for FREE now and never miss the top F1 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 France launched a furious protest over Team GB's gold medal in the women's 470 sailing. Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre took gold on Wednesday morning. Related articles Dan Walker apologises to BBC co-star ahead of brutal Team GB loss Britain rules the waves after 'spectacular' day for Team GB Mills and McIntyre made history on Wednesday morning by taking home gold in the women's 470. A heroic race saw them finish in fifth place, but that was enough for gold due to France finishing behind them. The pair jumped into the water at the …

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France will send €100 million to Lebanon in the coming months, Emmanuel Macron announced as part of an international conference one year after the Beirut explosion. The August 4 blast at the capital city's seaport killed 200 and injured thousands more. During a virtual event co-hosted by France and the United Nations, leaders aimed to raise more money to address the humanitarian needs in Lebanon. Macron's office said about 40 heads of state and government, heads of international organisations and diplomats are taking part in the conference. Participants include President Joe Biden, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, King Abdullah II of Jordan and European Council President Charles Michel. According to the United Nations, more than half of Lebanese people now live in poverty, one in three Lebanese suffer from food insecurity and nearly four million people are at risk of not accessing safe water. Conference to put …

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The Queer Eye star and his husband Rob are preparing to welcome their first baby, a son, via surrogate this summer Advertisement Tan France Credit: A Little Late with Lilly Singh/Youtube Tan France had no hesitations when it came to picking out a name for his baby boy on the way. The Queer Eye star, 38, appeared on A Little Late With Lilly Singh this week where he revealed that he's had a name picked out for his son for more than two decades. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow Following You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. France, who is expecting his first child via surrogate with husband Rob this summer , said he decided on his son's name when he was around "16 or 17 years old." "I've always known," he explained. "When I met my husband on one of the very first dates, I said, 'Do you want kids?' And he was …

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"My boys, we're ready to steal," Bobby Berk tells Carson Kressley Advertisement Celebrity Family Feud CARSON KRESSLEY, STEVE HARVEY, BOBBY BERK Carson Kressley, Steve Harvey and Bobby Berk | Credit: Byron Cohen/ABC Carson Kressley "can't wait to mop the floor" with the experts from Netflix's Queer Eye as he and the original Queer Eye for the Straight Guy stars face off against the newbies in the season 6 premiere of Celebrity Family Feud . "Are you ready for some big news?" Kressley, 50, says in a teaser for the upcoming episode, appearing to be on a Zoom call. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow Following You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. "I just scored some 2-ply!" Kressley says, poking fun at the struggle to find toilet paper amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic. He then throws the toilet paper roll …

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Boris Johnson is under growing Cabinet pressure to ease travel restrictions, amid fears an amber watchlist for European countries could wreck summer holidays. The Government is due on Thursday to update the traffic light list setting the rules for August, with threats to create a new category that could see nations moved at short notice to red, which entails 10 days’ hotel quarantine upon return to the UK. Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, is understood to be pushing for the idea of an “amber watchlist” to be shelved, as well as an expansion of the green list that enables even the unvaccinated to avoid quarantine upon their return. A growing chorus of senior backbenchers voiced their frustration on Sunday night over the proposal for an amber watchlist which they fear will put off families from travelling in case the rules change suddenly and they would have to pay for hotel quarantine. It is thought Spain and Greece and their popular islands are at the highest risk of …

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British holidaymakers could be forced to pay for visas to travel to Europe as a trade-off for the Brexit vote, the Home Secretary has admitted. Amber Rudd said she could not "rule out" the introduction of a scheme which would force those from outside the EU to pay for visas. The plan, currently being considered by EU nations, emerged over the weekend and on Sunday Ms Rudd suggested that Britain could be prepared to accept visas as a price worth paying during the Brexit negotiations. But she warned that the UK could retaliate and create a similar system if British citizens were hit with a charge to travel to countries like France and Spain. Critics have branded the scheme, which could cost around £10 per person, a "holiday tax" and called on Theresa May to rule it out. But asked about plans for a European Union visa yesterday the Home Secretary said the British people would be "surprised" at being forced to pay. She added: "I don’t think it’s particularly desirable but …

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Nicola Sturgeon has warned that she may only initially lift international travel restrictions for Scots who want to go abroad to meet family, and not sunseekers wanting a foreign holiday. The First Minister told a BBC One Scotland Holyrood election leaders' debate that she would consider the UK Government's traffic light scheme , which may allow holidaymakers to fly from English airports to Europe's top holiday destinations from next month. But she warned she was prepared to maintain restrictions on flying from Scotland's airports "for a little bit longer" to allow her to "open up much greater normality domestically". Ms Sturgeon said: "It may be that restrictions on international travel are the price we have to pay for that, and when we do open up we focus on family reunification before holidays". Although she said she wanted a deal on common arrangements with the UK Government and her Welsh and Northern Irish counterparts, she said it had to be "on the right four nations …

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Britons may have to apply for visas to travel throughout continental Europe once the UK leaves the EU, it has been reported. A scheme apparently being debated by the executive body of the European Union suggests the 26-nation passport-free Schengen zone , which does not include the UK, could operate a visa programme similar to the US waiver. Currently British passport holders can travel throughout member states without having to apply for short-term visas, but Britain's decision to leave the EU has left question marks over the criteria needed for UK nationals to visit the Schengen zone . According to The Guardian , the European Commission (EC) is due to unveil draft legislation for the EU travel information and authorisation system (Etias) later this year as part of a broader response to calls for greater security across the continent following recent terror attacks in France and Belgium. The scheme would cover all visitors to the Schengen zone from countries that …

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On July 27, a World War II veteran was presented with a Bronze Star medal for "meritorious achievement in active ground combat," 75 years after he had unknowingly earned it. During the war, Ubaldo Joseph Ciniero, 95, was first stationed in France and took part in combat operations, reports Grizzly , the California National Guard's magazine. His division later traveled to the Netherlands, crossed the Rhine River and advanced to the Harz Mountains. The U.S. Army's Center of Military History and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum later recognized his division as a liberating unit for the liberation of Halberstadt-Zwieberge, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, says the magazine. According to his son, Joel, Ciniero was unaware that he'd been awarded the medal. It was only after Joel decided to research his father that they discovered the recognition. "My dad never spoke much about the war," Joel says in the footage, "so I was interested in his division and what he did, …

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U.S. Trump America first Foreign policy Iran In the spring of 2016, as Donald Trump cruised to the Republican presidential nomination, he convened an elite crowd in a Washington, D.C., ballroom to announce a new proposal that would, as he put it, "shake the rust off America's foreign policy." Backed by American flags, he eviscerated decades of GOP orthodoxy—specifically the nation building of George W. Bush in Iraq—and pledged to enact a "coherent foreign policy" that would shun distant conflicts and put "America first." Trump pledged to find "talented experts with approaches and practical ideas, rather than surrounding myself with those who have perfect résumés but very little to brag about except responsibility for a long history of failed policies and continued losses at war. We have to look to new people." But now, as President Trump faces a series of conflicts with Syria, Iran and North Korea, he's surrounding himself with some of the "old people" whose …

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