Year: 2021

The UK taxpayer is to hand over a further €62.7m (£55m) to France to fund another clampdown on small-boat crossings of the Channel, the Home Office has revealed.

The i says Britain and France have struck a deal to strengthen efforts to stop migrant Channel crossings as people smugglers look set to hit a record number of landings this year. 

The Daily Mirror says: Amália and Amanda Alves were shot dead in a horrific execution that was live-streamed on Instagram. It’s reported the shooting happened because the women knew ‘too much’ about incidents involving drug dealers

TRT World says the pandemic-postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics has begun with Japanese women’s softball pitcher Yukiko Ueno getting Games competition under way

The Metro says: EXCLUSIVE: Climate scientist Bob Ward warns of further deaths after more than 2,500 fatalities were linked to 2020’s heatwaves while two people have already died from a heart attack and ‘heat stroke’ this summer

VOA says the delta variant of the coronavirus (COVID-19) now accounts for 83% of new cases in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Aljazeera says the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) has declared a state of emergency amid a surge in wildfires that have forced hundreds of people from their homes

Aljazeera says twelve people were killed in the underground rail system of Zhengzhou as torrential rain lashed China’s central province of Henan forcing tens of thousands to flee

Arab News says pilgrims participating in this year’s Hajj rituals successfully complied with health measures spread across all holy sites as there were no recorded Covid cases

The Metro says: Subway passengers were trapped in flood water up to their shoulders when flash flooding caused mayhem in central China today.