Year: 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.