Year: 2021

Thursday’s front pages are dominated by coverage of the deaths of dozens of migrants in the Channel.

BBC News says The UK and France will keep “all options on the table” as they try to stop migrants crossing the Channel. The UK prime minister and French president said trafficking gangs were risking lives, after 27 people died.

The Guardian says Cosmetic surgery clinics are to be banned from targeting adverts for procedures such as breast enlargement, nose jobs and liposuction at under-18s, in a crackdown by the UK advertising watchdog.

Sky News says the WHO has suggested it is time for countries to have a conversation about mandatory COVID-19 vaccines, saying: “It’s a healthy debate to have.”

TRT World says Several buildings have been set alight in the Solomon Islands’ capital Honiara as thousands of protestors swarmed the city’s Chinatown district in a second day of anti-government riots.

Aljazeera says A jury in the US state of Georgia has delivered guilty verdicts to three men for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.

The Metro says A student in North Korea has been sentenced to death by a firing squad for selling copies of Netflix’s hit show Squid Game.

BBC News says Liverpool maintained their 100% record in the Champions League this season by seeing off Porto at Anfield.

The coppers who shared photos of the bodies of murdered sisters Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, have been found guilty of gross misconduct.

Real Madrid and France striker Karim Benzema has been found guilty of conspiring to blackmail a fellow French footballer with a sex tape.