I recently arrived in Morocco for a bike race. I could have flown, but where’s the fun in that? Instead, I travelled overland by train and also took two ferries.
How easy is it to get to Africa without flying? Pretty easy, I discovered. Naturally, the trip took longer – I was on the ferry from the UK to Spain for two nights – but, according to a carbon footprint calculator, I saved a whopping 352kg of CO2, emitting 93
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BRUSSELS — Eva Kaili was unhappy with the seating plan.
It was a few days before POLITICO’s P28 gala dinner — a splash of glitter on the Brussels social calendar unveiling a ranking of the most powerful people in Europe — and the Greek lawmaker wanted to make sure she would be seated at a high-level table.
In a flurry of emails, her office in the European Parliament lobbied
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Maria Arena is blaming her secretary.
The Socialist MEP, who chairs the European Parliament’s human rights committee, accepted a trip to Qatar — and then failed to declare properly that the Qatari government paid for her flights and hotel, POLITICO can reveal.
Arena has admitted the administrative misdemeanour, but blamed it on her office assistant who she said did not complete the paperwork as required.
The senior MEP could
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The trappings said courtroom — a lawyer, a defendant, a judge, charges being read. Everyone’s behavior said otherwise.
As Ukrainian serviceman Bohdan Pantyushenko heard he was being accused of trumped-up terrorism charges that could carry the death penalty, the judge chattered away on her cell phone, discussing an upcoming manicure. Pantyushenko’s appointed attorney bluntly told his client he was not there to defend him.
“I realized what absolute trash it all was,” Pantyushenko
Dragons’ Den star Hilary Devey has died aged 65 after battling a ‘long illness’, her publicist confirmed today.
The Bolton-born multi-millionaire entrepreneur passed away at her holiday home in Morroco on Saturday night.
She joined BBC Two programme Dragons’ Den in 2011 and left in 2012, going on to present Channel 4’s The Intern.
She became a popular figure after demonstrating her matter-of-fact approach and was usually seen donning shoulder-padded businesswear.
In 2013 she was made a CBE, honoured for
Covid is up to 1,000 more prevalent in France than other popular holiday destinations including Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia, figures suggest.
Infection rates are falling or plateauing at UK holidaymakers’ favourite spots as the Omicron wave recedes across Europe.
But France has still recorded an average of 1,746 cases per million people over the last week, while the figures for Morocco (1.34), Tunisia (15.7) and Turkey (60.4) are up to 1,300 times fewer, according to Oxford-backed statistics site Our World
