Ò˱ö¡±ÇÁºÒ½Ôº(Ò˱öÈçºÎÊݱÇÒí) (½ñÈÕ¸üÐÂÖÐ)

In post-Brexit Britain, trips to the European Union will get a little more expensive for millions of Brits in search of a continental break.The European Commission confirmed on Friday that UK travelers will be required fill out an online form and cough up €7 (.90) for visa-free travel, which will be valid for three years.Natasha Bertaud, a spokeswoman for the commission's President Jean-Claude Juncker, likened the "simple form" to the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) scheme used by the United States -- which requires travelers to pay to apply for permission to enter the country.She also pointed out that the EU's version, called ETIAS, will be "way cheaper."But this all comes with a major caveat. If the UK crashes out of the EU with no agreement in place, Brits will be required to get a visa to travel to the EU, a commission spokeswoman told Reuters on Friday.ETIAS, which is expected to come into force in 2021, will apply to countries outside the EU whose citizens can currently travel in Europe visa free. There are currently 61 such countries, including the United States, Israel and Singapore.It will cover the so-called Schengen group of 26 European countries that share largely open land borders.The electronic visa waiver system was conceived to "identify any security or irregular migratory risks posed by visa-exempt visitors traveling to the Schengen area while at the same time facilitate crossing frontiers for the vast majority of travelers who do not pose such risks,"?according to the commission. 1554

It¡¯s a moment of pain and perseverance captured through the lens of a camera.¡°My son¡¯s head was out, and he was losing oxygen. He was slipping away,¡± mother of two, Loriell Forte, said.Forte had her son at home last year. The delivery was an intense experience. ¡°They had to put an oxygen mask on me, so that way he wouldn¡¯t stop breathing," she recalled.Photographer Elaine Baca was behind the scenes for the entire process, photographing the experience for the family.¡°She caught that moment of near death, but life at the same time. It¡¯s a delicate balance,¡± said Forte.The family planned to frame some of the birth photos for their home, but one photo ended up on Forte's Facebook wall instead and it was posted by someone else.¡°I was upset at first. I was like, ¡®How could they take my picture like that?¡¯¡±The photo, showing Forte and her husband while she is in labor, was shared on countless Facebook accounts with a false caption. Each post manipulated the story with slightly different details."One page had more than 200,000 shares on that one image saying that, ¡®My wife is suffering from coronavirus. The doctors say my wife is going to die and the baby is going to have Covid too, please pray and like and share,¡¯¡± said Baca.Some posts claimed Forte¡¯s baby had died. Others posed as her husband saying he¡¯d lost his wife and now their baby is sick.¡°It blew my mind that it went from an innocent moment, a powerful moment depicting birth, to a representation of COVID,¡± said Forte.But what is the truth? The photo was taken a year before the pandemic started in January 2019, and Forte¡¯s son is now almost 2 years old.¡°It has been used in ways of trying to get people to give money or trying to get people to look at something this certain way, and so at this point, if I could stop it, I would, because I know it¡¯s not the truth,¡± said Forte.A true birth story is all Baca wanted. She documented Forte¡¯s experience for a portrait series of African-American women giving birth because she says they are under-represented in birth stories. ¡°Black women don¡¯t see themselves often, so we were trying to show the beauty and the power of birth for these families," Baca said. "So, when I see that it¡¯s not being used for that, it¡¯s for fear, and for people to have a shocked reaction, shares and likes, it¡¯s just really frustrating because it goes against everything we were trying to do.¡±Experts warn misinformers will post photos you see on your timeline every day to get clout online and to spread false information.Here¡¯s how it works: once you like or share a photo, that account and that post will get views from other users. This can help the account get more followers or viewers in the future.The misinformer now has a wider audience to spread other false photos or articles.If you don¡¯t check the source of what you share, you could be helping spread misinformation with the click of a button.¡°I was just reporting and reporting as fast as I could and as they would get taken down. I moved onto the next, but there were 10-15 of them, and each of them had more than 1 million followers,¡± said Baca.Even after trying to have the photos taken down, Forte and her husband¡¯s faces are still being shared incorrectly on the internet today.¡°It definitely stripped the power I thought I had in that moment,¡± said Forte. ¡°It¡¯s like, ¡®Ok I might have power in giving life, but when it comes to a keyboard or Instagram, I¡¯m powerless."Both women agree the power lies with the public. A simple second to check the source of an image before you hit ¡°share¡± could stop one more fake story in its digital tracks. 3625

Inmates in Iowa's correctional system are suing the state to strike down a recently passed law that has banned pornography in prison, CNN affiliate KCCI reported. Iowa attempted to pass a similar law 30 years ago, but a federal judge struck the law down for being too vague. One expert told KCCI that the new law is more specific, and will likely withstand judicial review. "Prisoners generally have rights to access -- absent some incredibly dangerous person -- (including) reading materials," Drake University Constitutional Law Center Director Mark Kende. "And they have constitutional rights, even though they're in prison, the rights are diminished, but they have them."The law eliminates both viewing porn within individual jail cells, and in pornography reading rooms. Among the lawsuit, 58 inmates have joined the lawsuit, and are also asking the state to pay them ,000 each in damages.  931

Investigators are trying to determine whether an explosion early Tuesday at a FedEx facility outside San Antonio is connected to four explosions that have rattled the Austin, Texas, area this month.The most recent blast happened inside a FedEx facility in Schertz, Texas, FBI San Antonio spokeswoman Michelle Lee said. Schertz is a San Antonio suburb that is roughly an hour's drive southwest of Austin.One FedEx team member suffered minor injuries when a "single package exploded" at the ground sorting facility, company spokesman Jim McCluskey said Tuesday in a statement. An ATF spokeswoman earlier had said no injuries were reported."We are not providing any additional specific information about this package at this time," McCluskey said.Based on preliminary information gathered at the scene, Lee said there could be a connection with the four Austin explosions, which killed two people and injured four others over 17 days starting March 2. 956

In the month since news broke of allegations of sexual harassment and assault against Harvey Weinstein, about 1 in 5 Americans said close friends or family members shared stories about sexual harassment or assault on social media, according to a CNN poll.Headlines about the scandal and the culture in which it flourished were just as ubiquitous, especially as other powerful men were called out. About 66% of people said they've heard a lot of news stories about sexual harassment and assault lately, according to the same poll.But what do people really think of all this coverage and the impact it will have? The CNN poll conducted by SSRS found that most people are hopeful that the surge of attention on sexual harassment and assault could help make things better. 776

À´Ô´£º×ÊÑô±¨