By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN

(CNN) — After deciding to cancel her June trip with friends to Dubai when the emirate became the target of Iranian strikes, Lorna Davis was determined to find a new summer vacation elsewhere for the group.

Davis, who lives in London, began looking into fares for alternative breaks in destinations such as the Maldives, Mauritius and Bali. But she was stunned when she saw how expensive the flights were.

“Prices have gone up…” Davis tells CNN Travel. “At this moment, prices are so high.”

Undeterred, she reasoned that options closer to home would be cheaper, and researched vacations to Greece, but Davis found that even here, the prices were higher than usual, and continuing to go up.

“I’ve been looking all day to try to book something before they hike again.”

As summer gets closer, Davis says that fares keep getting higher and she’s running out of feasible options.

“I’m not sure what is going to happen now,” she adds, stressing that she’s “still trying” but getting increasingly disheartened.

Nearly two months after the United States and Israel began their attacks on Iran, the conflict is having a significant impact on the travel industry, and millions of travelers like Davis are facing uncertainty about the summer escape they’ve been looking forward to all year.

Air ticket prices have been rising as the war causes disruption to fuel supplies and forces up airline running costs. Many carriers are now canceling services no longer deemed profitable.

The rising costs and uncertainty are forcing some to forgo long-haul trips in favor of closer and more affordable destinations. Even those planning self-drive vacations are having to rethink their summer as pump prices also continue to soar.

Soaring travel costs

“There’ll be higher fares, less capacity and less people traveling this summer than expected,” said Dan Akins, an economist from aviation consulting firm Flightpath Economics. “So, none of it is good for the travel industry.”

It’s no mystery why costs are increasing. With the Strait of Hormuz, the main conduit for about 20% of the world’s oil and natural gas, closed to commercial traffic, supplies of jet fuel and gasoline have become disrupted.

Airlines in Europe and Asia, which are more dependent on jet fuel imports, have been hit particularly hard. And while the US is a leading exporter of jet fuel, it’s still at the mercy of price fluctuations. It’s a situation unlikely to ease quickly even if a deal is reached to reopen the Strait.

“Exposure to the largest energy disruption in history is going to mostly be conveyed in the US through pricing,” said Akins.

US carriers, he added, no longer protect themselves from market volatility by locking in prices months in advance. Many international airlines still do, but this offers no protection against shortages.

The situation is now so dire that on April 16, the head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, declared that Europe has “maybe six weeks or so” of remaining jet fuel.

Airspace closures around conflict zones are also having an effect with airlines like Emirates and Qatar Airways rerouting flights and subsequently burning more fuel. Many direct routes from Europe to Asia are being forced through a narrow corridor over Georgia and Azerbaijan or onto longer southern paths.

Those travelers flying out for vacations on “lower priced, no-frills kinds of tickets” will be hit the hardest, says Akins, as the unanticipated extra costs to airlines get passed on to passengers.

Added charges

Virgin Atlantic has increased some ticket prices by nearly $500, as well as adding extra fuel surcharges to economy-class tickets. Australian flag carrier Qantas is cutting 5% of its domestic flights, and Cathay Pacific and Uni

By Scottie Andrew, CNN

(CNN) — Last week, the “looksmaxxing” livestreamer Clavicular collapsed as thousands watched.

The 20-year-old self-styled master of looking good was live on camera in a Miami mall when he slumped and started to slur his words. Taking shelter from fans he’d been taking selfies with, he stumbled into a booth at an empty restaurant, closed his eyes and let his head flop onto the shoulder of the streamer seated next to him. He stopped responding after that. His camera crew cut the stream when they realized he was ill, but bystanders caught his team carrying his limp body out of the mall.

Miami Fire officials later said they’d responded to a suspected overdose. Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Peters, hasn’t specified what substance he took before his collapse, though he hinted in a recent stream on Kick, his preferred platform, that the substance’s abbreviation is three letters.

A couple of days prior to the suspected overdose, “60 Minutes Australia” released an interview that the influencer had walked out of after a few half-hearted attempts to insult his interviewer. Earlier this month, he appeared to start convulsing after encouraging another streamer, who calls himself “the Cuban Tarzan,” to choke him. And less than 24 hours after his suspected overdose, at the opening of a club that’s open three nights a week for five hours a night, he spent most of the time standing by himself on an elevated surface, scrolling on his phone while young women danced a few feet away.

Is this what self-improvement looks like? Clavicular has presented himself as a short-term case study in the benefits of “looksmaxxing,” the art of modifying one’s physical appearance to attract women, wealth and fame. Starting at age 14, by his account, through exercise, sometimes by a hammer to the face, and with the help of a regimen of off-label or illicit drugs, he says he’s made himself into something new: a 6-foot-2 Chad with a 31-inch waist and pointy clavicles that span 19.5 inches (his own measurements, provided to the New York Times).

The result is an uncannily childlike face stuck onto a slim frame with swollen arms and a sharply tapering torso. (He rarely shows his legs.) His skin is always pallid, his expression pursed, his eyes vacant. He’s almost always wearing, or removing, shirts that are too tight, so he can flaunt the broadness of his shoulders. He’s been profiled in GQ and walked in New York Fashion Week; after spending a day with him, the Times declared, borrowing from looksmaxxing argot, that he’d “ascended” — in looksmaxxing vernacular — successfully became more attractive and widely known.

But collapsing in public and appearing to lose control of his own body doesn’t match the image of a giga-Chad. Clavicular’s project isn’t playing out like an inspiring story of human potential or a replicable health fad, even as he says “looksmaxxing is just another form of self-improvement that’s a little bit more holistic” than working out.

“I’d say I’ve pretty much tried it all,” he told “60 Minutes Australia” of his own looksmaxxing methods. “I haven’t had plastic surgery, but just about everything else in terms of biohacking. So you can really do a lot for your looks with simple pharmaceutical intervention.”

Onscreen, his is a performance predicated on extremity and shock, played out on his own body. Hundreds of thousands of people are watching.

Clavicular is less idealize

Análisis de Zachary B. Wolf, CNN

Una ley posterior a la guerra de Vietnam impone un plazo de 60 días para el uso de la fuerza militar sin autorización del Congreso.

La guerra en Irán, para la cual la administración Trump no solicitó aprobación, cumple ese plazo de 60 días el 1 de mayo, según el texto de la ley, la Resolución de Poderes de Guerra, pero no está nada claro qué sucederá cuando ese día llegue.

La ley establece un cronograma para las guerras no declaradas:

Primero, 48 horas. El presidente debe notificar al Congreso dentro de las 48 horas posteriores al despliegue de las fuerzas armadas y explicar el alcance, la justificación y la probable duración de la operación.

En su notificación al Congreso sobre Irán, Trump, al igual que otros presidentes, afirmó que comprometió tropas en virtud de la autoridad inherente al presidente, según la Constitución, para “conducir las relaciones exteriores de Estados Unidos”.

Segundo, 60 días. El Congreso debe autorizar el uso de la fuerza dentro de los 60 días posteriores a la recepción de dicha notificación o, según la ley, el presidente debe dar por terminada la acción militar.

En tercer lugar, existe la posibilidad de una prórroga de 30 días. Trump puede extender el plazo de 60 días por otros 30 días si argumenta que la acción militar continua es necesaria para garantizar la seguridad de los militares durante la retirada de la guerra. Trump ha declarado que no se dejará presionar para llegar a un mal acuerdo que ponga fin a la guerra.

Existe cierta confusión en el Congreso sobre la fecha exacta del plazo de 60 días fijado por la Casa Blanca, ya que los abogados de ambos partidos argumentan que existen diversas interpretaciones de la ley federal.

Algunos creen que el plazo de 60 días comenzó a contar desde la fecha de inicio de las hostilidades (lo que situaría la fecha límite el 29 de abril), mientras que otros citan el texto de la ley para argumentar que son 60 días naturales a partir de la fecha en que la Casa Blanca notificó oficialmente al Congreso (lo que situaría la fecha límite el 1 de mayo).

Pero muchos legisladores republicanos creen que el período de alto el fuego no cuenta para el plazo de 60 días. Incluso algunos demócratas dijeron que el alto el fuego podría complicar el cronograma.

“No se pueden castigar los altos el fuego. Queremos que se sienten a dialogar”, dijo el representante republicano Brian Fitzpatrick a CNN.

Fitzpatrick dijo estar listo para forzar una votación sobre la Ley de Poderes de Guerra si el alto el fuego termina.

Los legisladores pueden revocar los poderes de guerra de un presidente en cualquier momento, pero los intentos demócratas de hacerlo en esta ocasión han fracasado hasta ahora. La senadora republicana Lisa Murkowski, quien ha criticado la forma en que Trump ha manejado la guerra, ha hablado de impulsar una autorización para establecer límites a la forma en que se lleva a cabo la guerra, pero aún no lo ha hecho.

Varios presidentes, incluido Trump, han argumentado que la ley en sí es inconstitucional. Richard Nixon vetó la legislación cuando se aprobó por primera vez, argumentando que limitaba la capacidad de los presidentes para proteger al país. El Congreso anuló su veto.

Una resolución para limitar el poder de Trump en Venezuela fue rechazada en el Senado únicamente por el voto decisivo del vicepresidente J. D. Vance. Sin embargo, Vance declaró en enero, antes de la guerra con Irán, que la Resolución sobre los Poderes de Guerra no afectaría la forma en que Trump gobernaba el país.

“La Ley de Poderes de Guerra es fundamentalmente una ley falsa e inconstitucional”, afirmó Vance. “No va a cambiar en absoluto nuestra política exterior en las próximas semanas ni en los próximos meses. Y seguiremos actuando de la misma manera”.

A pesar de qu

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN

(CNN) — In our roundup of travel news this week: the viral “snow” spot that’s actually hazardous waste, the design concept that reinvents the worst seat on the airplane, plus CNN spends a night at the world’s biggest capsule hotel.

Cozy or claustrophobic?

London is one of the world’s most expensive cities, so a central hotel stay right by Piccadilly Circus for just $40 a night is surely a bargain.

The only problem is that it involves sleeping in a tiny coffin-like box, one of almost 1,000 that make up the world’s largest capsule hotel.

CNN’s Barry Neild went downtown to try it out. Watch here, if you dare.

There’s more terrifying lodging in store in our feature on the multiple “Shining” hotels made famous by Stanley Kubrick’s film and Stephen King’s novel.

As we know from the twins in the movie, things can get eerie once duplicates are involved. CNN’s David Allan went to the hotels to stay — but would his visit last “forever and ever”?

Reinventing the ‘worst seat’

The last row of economy is typically the least desirable area of the plane: you can’t recline your seat and you’re right next to the line for the bathroom.

However, the new SkyNook concept by Collins Aerospace reimagines that rotten row as a “semi-private retreat” with a privacy screen and extra storage space. Check it out here.

For our subscribers — the business class of CNN coverage, if you will — we have tips from a traveler who’s flown premium more than 500 times and counting.

Here’s when he thinks it’s worth it — and when it’s not.

Finally, most of us have come to expect hidden fees when buying airline tickets, but did you realize you might regularly be paying a departure charge to leave a country?

While some destinations ask for cash in hand from tourists as they leave the airport, most of these fees are baked into the cost of your ticket. Here’s how it works.

Starting over in Spain

Colleen Crowley and her family had a great life in Montecito, California, a coastal enclave where Oprah Winfrey and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex own homes.

“It was a wonderful place to raise a family,” Crowley said. “But honestly, maybe a little too wonderful. It’s very manicured. It’s very limited.”

Three years ago, the family of five relocated to San Sebastián, the food capital of northern Spain’s autonomous Basque region.

The move has been “amazing and transformative,” Crowley tells CNN. “I think everyone is much happier here.”

Texan Cepee Tabibian moved on her own to Spain in her 30s, but even after a decade, she tells CNN she sometimes wakes up in her seaside home in Málaga and has to pinch herself.

“There’s so much less stress and more peace in my life in Spain than there ever was in the US,” she says.

Having loved her own relocation, the entrepreneur is now helping other would-be expats do the same.

Viral ‘snow’ spot is actually waste

India’s Kishangarh dumping yard is surprisingly picturesque with its snow-like marble slurry dust, but experts warn that the influx of visitors hungry for social media content is posing risks to human health and to the environment.

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