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Chartered
commercial and private aircraft specialist, Air Partner PLC (LON:AIR),
is bucking the trend and growing in the luxury air travel market, says
chief executive Mark Briffa.
“If you look at the private jet space
today, a lot of the numbers coming out are pretty much saying that it’s
flat or it’s not growing,” says Briffa, adding “that’s not where we
are”.
Briffa also explained the reasoning behind the company’s latest
acquisition, Baines Simmons, an aviation safety consultancy it acquired
last summer for £6mln.
“We felt it’s a space…where we see a growing
market not crowded with competition, but fundamentally for us as well
it’s all around adding more value to the customer.”
Briffa adds that
Air Partner is always on the lookout for further acquisitions, but
stresses that it must be the “right opportunity”.
France was hit by more flooding Wednesday as heavy rains continued to
fall across large swathes of the country, leaving the River Seine in
Paris overflowing and water lapping at the doors of one of the Loire
Valley’s most famous chateaux
⚠💧⚠ En raison de la crue de la #Seine, Quai et tunnel de Bercy fermés dans le sens Georges Pompidou/A4 👉 https://t.co/VOibnPNWns
Jay Z likes to address his critics on the record — literally.
In May, he used a verse to respond to infidelity rumors juiced by his wife Beyoncé's album "Lemonade."
On
Tuesday night, the 46-year-old, born Shawn Carter, used his verse on
Pusha T's new song "Drug Dealers Anonymous" to address another critic:
conservative pundit Tomi Lahren.
Lahren criticized Beyoncé in
February for her Black Panther-themed Super Bowl performance. The
internet host also brought up Carter's well-documented past as a drug
trafficker to question his wife's Black Lives Matter message.
Lahren
said: "Your husband was a drug dealer. For 14 years, he sold crack
cocaine. Talk about protecting black neighborhoods. Start at home."
Jay
Z pulled no punches with his response. He sampled Lahren's critique at
the beginning of his verse to make it clear who his rhymes were aimed
at.
"For 14 years he sold crack cocaine," Lahren's voice echoes
before Carter begins rapping: "Fourteen-year drug dealer and still
counting, who deserves the medal of freedom is my accountant. He's been
hula-hooping through loopholes, working around s***. IRS should've had
the townhouses surrounded. ... Thanks to the lawyers."
Carter has spoken with little shame about his drug-dealing past since his first album debuted in 1996.
His
response to Lahren didn't just confirm her accusation; it implied that
he's still finding ways to profit from the drug money that
was reportedly used to launch his music career.
Lahren, not one
to back down, replied Wednesday morning with a tweet referencing
Carter's 2003 hit "99 Problems." She tweeted, "I've got 99 problems but
trust me, being on your rap ain't one."
Carter appears carefree
about both his past life and his present conflict with Lahren. The
rapper closed his verse with a Snapchat-inspired joke about the drug
raids he once feared: "Damn, Daniel. FBI keeps bringing them all-white
vans through."
He can afford to have a cavalier attitude about his former activities, as the statute of limitations has likely passed.
And in 2015, President Barack Obama shared plans to significantly change how the justice system handles drug offenders.
"For
nonviolent drug crimes, we need to lower long mandatory sentences or
get rid of them entirely," Obama said last July. Through May, the
president commuted the sentences of 306 prisoners, many of whom were
charged in connection with the distribution of crack cocaine.
This
video includes clips from Roc-A-Fella Records and WWPR-FM and images
from Getty Images. Music provided courtesy of APM Music.
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At
least 10 people were killed and more than 40 were injured Wednesday
after gunmen and a suicide bomber attacked a popular hotel in Somalia's
capital of Mogadishu. Officials say the death toll will likely
increase.
Somali special forces intervened, but it’s unclear if
there are any attackers still in the hotel. Two of those killed
were prominent Somali lawmakers.
Al-Qaeda-affiliated group
Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack. Al-Shabab has carried
out several deadly attacks across eastern Africa, including an attack on
a Kenyan university in 2015 that killed 147 people.
The attack
comes on the heels of a U.S. Department of Defense announcement that a
recent airstrike targeted senior Al-Shabab commander Abdullahi Haji
Daud.
While he didn’t confirm Daud's death, Pentagon Press
Secretary Peter Cook said the strike "will disrupt near-term attack
planning, potentially saving many innocent lives."
This video includes clips from Al Jazeera and Al-Shabab and images from Getty Images.
Newsy
is your source for concise, unbiased video news and analysis covering
the top stories from around the world. With persistent curiosity and no
agenda, we strive to fuel meaningful conversations by highlighting
multiple sides of every story. Newsy delivers the news and perspective
you need without the hype and bias common to many news sources.
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June 2016: The biggest event of the day takes place at 12.45pm – the
ECB meeting in Vienna. No policy change is expected but Mario Draghi’s
comments will be closely analysed. The OPEC meeting also takes place in
Vienna.
