The Metro says Man City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been charged with four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault against three complainants aged over 16
Day: 27 August 2021
The i says a cost-benefit analysis will have set the acceptable level of Covid-19 deaths before restrictions are reintroduced at around 1,000 deaths a week.
The Daily Mail says: ISIS have claimed responsibility for the suicide bomb attacks on Kabul airport that killed 13 US solders and 60 Afghan civilians.
The Guardian says hundreds of Britons have offered to host Afghan refugees in their homes since the UK government started evacuation flights after the fall of Kabul.
The Daily Mail: An animal charity boss stuck in Afghanistan with 200 dogs and cats said his ‘mission’ to get them and his 25 staff and their families out of the country has been unsuccessful and he is now likely to have to leave the country on his own.
The Daily Mirror says: The UK airlift out of Kabul will end in hours after Britain shut the airport’s gates to new arrivals in the early hours today.
The twin bomb attacks at Kabul airport, which targeted people trying to flee the country after the Taliban takeover, features across the front pages.
The Daily Mirror says: President Joe Biden has vowed revenge on the terrorists who killed US troops and Afghan civilians – including children – in a devastating twin bombing in Afghanistan.
Refugees and US Marines were murdered side by side, says the i. The paper adds that the UK and US will continue with the airlifts but the final British flight from Kabul could depart on Friday.
The Daily Mirror says: The family of a British man killed in the 9/11 terror attacks is demanding a new inquest, claiming the Twin Towers were blown up from inside.
The Guardian reports the explosions took place among frantic crowds trying to leave Afghanistan. It says one of the bombs was near a hotel where the British embassy is based
The Daily Mirror says: On October 20, 2000, Phyllis Porter got a knock on the door that would change her life. She answered the door to find two Mirror reporters who had come to tell her that she had just won a million pounds.
BBC News says the UK will continue its operation to evacuate people from Afghanistan despite the “despicable” attack at the capital’s airport, Boris Johnson says.
The Guardian says health officials are braced for a bank holiday surge of Covid cases as about 500,000 people head to music festivals and millions more venture to the tourism hotspots.
TRT World says President Joe Biden, his voice breaking with emotion, has vowed the United States will hunt down the attackers of twin explosions at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan
VOA says the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary ban.
Arab News says Israeli PM Naftali Bennett is aiming to dissuade Joe Biden from returning to the Iran nuclear deal when the two leaders meet Friday.
France24 says Nigerian gunmen have freed the remaining pupils from more than 100 kidnapped from an Islamic seminary in northwestern Niger State
The Sun carries the headline “Hell on Earth”. Its story mentions the crowds of people who had been outside the airport.
The Daily Mail says the attacks triggered fresh condemnation of Joe Biden’s decision to remove US troops from Afghanistan.
The Daily Mirror says evacuation forces are now in a race against time to get people out of Kabul before further attacks.