On Wednesday, TIME Magazine released its annual list of 100 most influential people. This year’s list includes Palestinian activists Muna El Kurd and Mohammed El Kurd.
Month: September 2021
The Guardian says Nottingham Forest have sacked manager Chris Hughton with the club bottom of the Championship table and winless after seven matches.
The Guardian says the US, UK and Australia are setting up a trilateral security partnership aimed at confronting China, which will include helping Australia to build nuclear-powered submarines.
The i says North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles off its east coast, South Korean authorities have said, marking the second weapons test the country has conducted this week.
The Guardian says Trinidad and Tobago’s health minister has dismissed claims by the rapper Nicki Minaj that a cousin’s friend had become impotent after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine.
The Daily Mail: A war of words has broken out over a new nuclear submarine pact between the UK, US and Australia aimed at combatting China – with Beijing denouncing their ‘Cold War mentality’, France fuming after its $90bn sub contract with Canberra was torn up, and New Zealand and Canada side-lined from the deal.
The i says anti-vaxxers are targeting teenagers with disinformation leaflets, hoping to create fear over the Covid jab ahead of the rollout to 12-15-year-olds.
The Sun: FORMER England and Newcastle star Kieron Dyer ends up battering SAS: Who Dares Wins instructor Jason ‘Foxy’ Fox after seeing the red mist during a challenge.
Thursday’s front pages are dominated by the “ruthless” government cabinet reshuffle.
The Sun: Manchester United’s new signing, 36, who loves his rest between matches, has moved from one seven-bed home to another.
The Daily Mirror: More than 30,000 British women have reported disruption to their periods after getting a Covid jab.
“Johnson sacks blundering cabinet allies” is the headline in the i newspaper, which says Mr Raab was “angry” and refused to accept his demotion until he was given deputy PM title.
The Mirror: Boris Johnson has carried out a sweeping reshuffle of his Cabinet which saw a number of senior ministers ousted from his top team.
The Mirror: At St Mary’s Church, prayers are said each week for the villagers, for the volunteers manning its famous red-and-white 18th-century lighthouse and for those who work in the North Sea.
The Guardian suggests that PM Boris Johnson is laying “the groundwork for the next general election”. The paper looks at what it calls the “surprise” appointment of Nadine Dorries.
The Sun claims Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo has moved out of his house after being kept awake by sheep. It quotes: “The sheep were very noisy early in the morning.”
The Daily Mirror focuses on climate change. “If we don’t act now this is our future” the headline reads, alongside an artist’s impression of how climate change may affect York.
The Daily Mail says PM Boris Johnson “stamped his authority” on the cabinet with a “brutal” reshuffle, which the paper says was designed to get him a second term in power.
BBC News says Prime Minister Boris Johnson will continue to rebuild his ministerial team on Thursday, having already reshuffled his cabinet.
The Guardian says SpaceX has launched the world’s first crew of “amateur astronauts” on a private flight to circle Earth for three days.
France24 says Olympic gymnast Simone Biles held back tears on Wednesday as she spoke at the Larry Nassar trial in the United States.
Arab News says players from Afghanistan’s female youth soccer teams have arrived in Pakistan and will seek political asylum in third countries.
TRT World says data shows trading volumes between the UAE and Israel jumped from $51m in the first 7 months of 2020 to $614m over the same period in 2021.
VOA says the US is developing a “new system for international travel” that will include contact tracing for when the nation eventually lifts restrictions.
Aljazeera says if there’s one thing an incumbent candidate seeking re-election does not need, it is unwelcome news from the economic front.