The Independent, it is looking increasingly unlikely that Spain will be added to the
UK s green list for safe travel when the next update is made - scheduled to be June 7.
The report refers to remarks that
Boris Johnson apparently made at a meeting of the 1922 committee of Conservative Party backbench MPs. The prime minister is understood to have said that countries which were near misses for the current green list are likely to now be placed on it. These countries include Malta, Finland, Antigua and the Cayman Islands.
As well as Spain, the implication is that other major vacation countries will remain on
Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, 63, on his empathy for the Taliban, his bitter disappointment with the former protective power, the United States, and why he considers the EU as his role model. He says the key to war and peace for his country, however, lies with Pakistan.
In climate push, G7 agrees to stop international funding for coal
Reuters | May 22, 2021 12:21 AM EDT
Heavy equipment excavate anthracite coal from a strip mine in New Castle, Pennsylvania, (Photo : REUTERS/Dane Rhys/File Photo)
The world s seven largest advanced economies agreed on Friday to stop international financing of coal projects that emit carbon by the end of this year, and phase out such support for all fossil fuels, to meet globally agreed climate change targets.
Stopping fossil fuel funding is seen as a major step the world can make to limit the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, which scientists say would avoid the most devastating impacts of climate change.
In Gaza, war is horror for everyone, including the cats and dogs
Charles DavisMay 22, 2021, 04:01 IST
A cat sits near fish on display for sale in Gaza seaport , Friday, Jan. 17, 2020.AP Photo/Hatem Moussa
The war in Gaza was a traumatizing event for humans as well as animals, said resident Saeed Al Err.
Saeed runs Gaza s Sulala Animal Rescue, caring for dogs and cats, as well as a horse and donkey. They are poor souls who have a very difficult life in Gaza, he told Insider
Like everyone in Gaza, Saeed Al Err had a plan for what he would do if the Israeli military was going to bomb his neighborhood. The difference is that some members of his family have four legs.