The Metro says Chancellor Rishi Sunak has asked the Royal Mint to create the UK government’s first ever NFT.
Month: April 2022
The Metro says Kanye West has stepped back into the public eye amid reports he has pulled out of his Coachella performance.
The Metro says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to give a speech to MPs in the Commons on Tuesday, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues.
The Independent says Metropolitan Police fines are believed to have been issued to staff who attended a leaving drinks party for the top government official who helped write Covid rules.
The Independent says LGBTQ charity Stonewall and 80 other organisations have pulled out of a UK government conference over its transgender conversion therapy U-turn.
The Independent says Channel 4 has said it is “disappointed” at the Government’s decision to proceed with plans to privatise.
The Independent says People from Bucha have told of the “happy life, different plans and dreams for the future” they have lost as a result of the consistent attacks on the city.
The Independent says Sri Lanka president Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s ruling coalition lost its majority in parliament on Tuesday amid growing unrest in the country over an economic crisis.
The Guardian says the bodies of a British father and son have been recovered from the Blue Mountains, after they were killed in a “freak” landslide.
The Guardian says police in the California state capital have made an arrest in connection with Sunday’s mass shooting.
The Guardian says civil service chiefs are braced for the behaviour of top Whitehall officials to be severely criticised in the Sue Gray partygate report.
The Guardian says Nadine Dorries, is pushing ahead with controversial plans to privatise Channel 4, with the government backing proposals to sell off the broadcaster after 40 years in public ownership.
The Guardian says the west must not lift sanctions against Russia until all its troops have left Ukraine and Vladimir Putin is unable to mount such an offensive again, the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, has said.
Tuesday’s front pages.
BBC News says the government has decided to go ahead with plans to privatise Channel 4 but the channel said it was “disappointing” that ministers had made their decision
Sky News says footballers and celebrities will no longer be allowed to appear on gambling and betting adverts under new rules introduced by the UK’s advertising regulator.
France24 says Moscow faced global revulsion and accusations of war crimes Monday after the Russian pullout from the outskirts of Kyiv revealed streets strewn with corpses.
Euronews says we must halve emissions by 2030 in order to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis, says the latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Arab News says trade in the amphetamine-type stimulant captagon in the Middle East grew exponentially in 2021 to top $5 billion, posing an increasing health and security risk to the region, a report said.
Aljazeera says the sister of Kim Jong Un has threatened South Korea with nuclear retaliation if provoked after Seoul highlighted its supposed pre-emptive strike capabilities against the North.
TRT World says an Indian paramilitary soldier has been killed and another wounded in a rebel attack in India-administered Kashmir’s main city.
VOA says Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson advanced one step closer to serving on the U.S. Supreme Court with a key U.S. Senate committee Monday advancing her nomination for a full floor vote.
BBC Sport says Mikel Arteta apologised for his side’s performance in their surprise defeat at Crystal Palace and accepted it was not good enough for the north London club.
In this week’s In Conversation, journalist Yvonne Ridley discusses Scottish independence with Kevin McKenna ‘who speaks without favour or influence from any political party or politician.
Eastenders actress June Brown – who played Dot Cotton in Eastenders for more than 30 years, has died at the age of 95.