The Guardian says Train passengers were facing widespread disruption and cancellations as Britain’s biggest nationwide rail strike for 30 years began on Tuesday morning.
Month: June 2022
The Guardian says The Times swiftly withdrew a story that made allegations about the prime minister and his wife after Downing Street intervened to complain about it, No 10 has confirmed.
The Guardian says The Nobel Peace Prize that Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov was auctioning off to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees has sold for $103.5m (£84.5m), shattering the record for a Nobel.
The Guardian says The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is expected to show at its fourth hearing on Tuesday.
The Guardian says Multiple police officers armed with rifles and at least one ballistic shield were at the site of the Robb elementary school mass shooting in Texas within 19 minutes, earlier than previously known, according to a timeline in documents reviewed by local media.
Tuesday’s papers report heavily on the rail strike – the UK’s biggest rail strike in 30 years – that kicked off today.
BBC News says BORIS JOHNSON is to call for a “sensible compromise” on pay to end the largest rail strike in 30 years.
Sky News says DOWNING STREET has confirmed it was in conversation with The Times around the time the newspaper dropped a report claiming Boris Johnson tried to appoint his now wife to a government role when he was foreign secretary.
Euronews says TENS OF THOUSANDS of demonstrators marched in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi on Monday to demand EU membership for the former Soviet republic in the Caucasus.
France24 says THOUSANDS of Indigenous people and members of other disgruntled groups marched into Ecuador’s capital on the eighth day of fuel price protests Monday, accused by the president of seeking only “chaos” and his removal.
Aljazeera says THE government of Canada announced that it will ban the manufacturing and import of a number of “harmful” single-use plastics, with several new regulations coming into place in December.
TRT World says AUTHORITIES in flood-hit Bangladesh and northeastern India have scrambled to provide aid to more than nine million people marooned after the heaviest rains in years killed dozens of people across both South Asian nations, officials have said.
BBC Sport says Ryan Giggs has resigned as Wales manager “with immediate effect”. Giiggs, 48, stepped away from his role in November 2020 after being arrested.
Pixar’s Lightyear and the gay kissing scene that led to it being banned
Pixar’s Lightyear has been generally panned by critics and moviegoers and its box office weekend saw it pull in less than expected. But the film is also making headlines for featuring a same sex couple – two women who in one scene briefly kiss.
PinkNews says Lightyear star Keke Palmer has applauded the animated film’s LGBTQ+ representation for “depicting life and love the way that exists” in the world.
Arab News says Disney and Pixar’s latest movie “Lightyear,” which was slated for a June 16 release, has been banned in the UAE — one of the most liberal countries in the Arab World — over content, including a same-sex intimate scene.
The Independent says Cancel culture? Boo! It’s an attack on our freedoms by the terminally woke! There are limits, and sometimes we liberals go too far. We deserve a kicking. We deserve a Ted Cruz-approved cancellation.
Daily Record says If you are old enough, you were possibly one of the nine million people who tuned in to watch British TV’s first pre-watershed lesbian kiss in Brookside.
Unions have urged ministers to find a solution to the rail strike, according to The Independent.
Metro reports a scramble for the last train home tonight as the rail network goes into shutdown, with millions facing days of travel misery.
The government is facing growing anger over its refusal to join last-ditch talks to avert this week’s rail strikes, reports The Guardian.
Now teachers and nurses join pay fight – that’s the headline on the front page of the Daily Mirror.
Britain is in danger of grinding to a halt this summer as more professionals threaten to join the railway workers on strike, reports The Sun.
The Daily Express reports Grant Shapps has warned voters won’t forgive Labour’s failure to condemn the rail strikes that will bring the nation to a halt from tomorrow.