67 h. ago Disabled people detained by Ice sound alarm over overcrowded jails

Rodney Taylor, whose legs were amputated as a toddler, just one of many people with disabilities at risk from detentionIn his three months locked up at Stewart detention center in Lumpkin, Georgia, Rodney Taylor has missed meals and showers, lived with increasing pain in his hips, developed a swollen thumb on his right hand and blisters on the stumps where his two legs were amputated when he was a toddler.Taylor’s mother brought him to the US from Liberia on a medical visa as a small child. He went through 16 operations and is a double amputee. He has two fingers on his right hand. Now 46, he has lived in the US nearly his entire life, works as a barber, is active in promoting cancer awareness in his community, and recently got engaged. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago As immigrant arrests surge, complaints of abuse mount at America's oldest detention center in Miami

As President Donald Trump seeks to make good on his campaign pledge of mass arrests and removals of migrants, the U.S. immigration detention system is being overrun with prisoners

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3 d. ago British tourist baffled by ‘shocking’ extra charge for ice cubes at Spanish beach bar

The coffee surcharge left social media users feeling frosty

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4 d. ago Wildlife ranger drowns trying to retrieve British tourist's phone after he dropped it into underground stream in Thailand

Paisan Wanphet, 43, plunged into the cold waters to retrieve the gadget when it slipped from the tourist's hand as they trekked through the Tham Sao Hin cave.

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5 d. ago British tourist tells of sombre atmosphere in Rome following death of Pope

Antoni Bohdanowicz, from Berkshire, travelled to Rome with his wife and her family to see the Easter service in St Peter’s Square.

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5 d. ago British tourist is shocked to be charged extra for two ICE CUBES at Spanish bar

Brit Viv Proops, who visited the Havana beach bar in Estepona, took to social media to rant about the extra cost.

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6 d. ago Major tourist destination declares 'pre emergency' in warning to British holidaymakers

Holidaymakers may want to avoid the destination over the next few days, as a number of alerts about hazardous weather conditions have been issued.

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8 d. ago British tourist faces hellhole US jail term after he caused wrong

Thomas Robb, 22, drove past at least two 'No Entry' signs before travelling the wrong way on a road in Rockland County, New York and colliding into another vehicle.

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9 d. ago Naples cable car crash: Brit woman named among four killed in horror plunge

The cable car plunged to the ground near the 1,100-metre high Mount Faito in Naples, Italy, when one of its main supporting cables snapped - killing two British tourists, one Israeli tourist and the driver

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1 week ago Trump administration seeks explosive expansion of nation's immigration detention system

The world's largest immigration detention system is on the cusp of explosive growth as President Donald Trump pursues his signature campaign promise of mass deportations

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1 week ago Norwegian police explain why they wrongly deported a British tourist – but stop short of apologising

Exclusive: Police stop short of apologising to British visitor who was held in custody for three hours and marched by officers on to a flight sending her back to Edinburgh

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1 week ago America used to fire the world’s imagination – but now the cultural conversation is being silenced | Van Badham

Not only are TV-watching, book-reading, show-going, music-listening travellers declining to visit the US, we have started to cease to imagine itThis week, fresh data revealed the United States has seen its biggest drop in Australian tourists since Covid. It’s hardly surprising. Innocent people are being snatched by authorities from American streets. Citizens of foreign countries are being stopped, shackled and detained. The EU is now sending its emissaries with burner phones, lest personal social media posts critical of President Trump be discovered by border agents and who knows what happens next? Forcible relocation to a Salvadorian supermax prison, seemingly without chance of release, is suddenly not out of the question.It all seems like something from Hollywood dystopia; the V series, maybe. Or Escape from New York. It’s pretty much the plot line of the first season of Andor – which I strongly recommend that everyone watch before the Trump regime clocks what that show is advisin...

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1 week ago Moment baffled British tourist is found fast asleep in bed by Thai police after family back home reported him missing

A British tourist who sparked fears for his wellbeing after disappearing for a month in Thailand has been found safe in a dingy hostel.

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1 week ago Why Trump is jailing student activists in Louisiana, where thousands of immigrants are detained in private prisons

Inside the state’s sprawling and remote ICE detention centers, immigrants feel like they’re ‘screaming into a void’ thousands of miles from home, lawyers and advocates tell Alex Woodward

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1 week ago Benidorm tourist warning issued over infamous hotspot after Brit's horror experience

A British tourist's horror experience in Benidorm, Spain, has led to police issuing a travel warning - the tourist was targetted as he returned to his holiday apartment in the early hours of the morning.

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1 week ago British man and teenager drown after being swept out to sea near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Victims understood to be father and son pulled from ocean in holiday town of Seventeen Seventy

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1 week ago British man and teenager drown after being swept out to sea in Australia

Victims understood to be father and son pulled from ocean in holiday town of Seventeen Seventy

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1 week ago Misery for holidaymakers in Lanzarote as resorts and roads are submerged by 'Armageddon' floods following major storm

Some hotels were left without power as services across the island were affected following the torrential rainfall, which one British tourist described as feeling like 'Armageddon'.

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2 w. ago Voices: I’m not the only British tourist with a passport horror story

Not only are holidaymakers being turned away at airports and refused entry to certain countries, the price for renewal has gone up again this week, writes Charlotte Cripps. Which begs the question: Why has travelling for Brits become such a passport pandemonium?

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2 w. ago Moment bomb explodes at British tourist hotspot after device detonates outside train firm involved in catastrophic rail disaster

Anonymous calls warning of the attack were made to Greek media just moments before the blast on Friday night.

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