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French PM forces social security budget bill without a vote -Le Monde French PM Barnier announces concession in bid to end budget standoff -France24 What happens without a Social Security budget? -Le Monde

What’s on the front page of The Irish News this morning? The front page of The Irish News this morning – 03/12/2024 – reports on the father of Chloe Ferris, who died in a nightclub while out celebrating her 25th. The father of Chloe Ferris, who died in a nightclub while out celebrating her 25th birthday, has spoken of his family’s heartbreak over the loss of a young woman who “lived life to the full”. Chloe (24) had been attending Lux nightclub in Belfast city centre with friends to celebrate her upcoming birthday when herself and another friend fell unconscious.An MP has…

What’s on the front page of Western Mail this morning? The front page of Western Mail this morning – 03/12/2024 – reports the Welsh Government has announced a new £8.8m plan to get truanting kids back to school.More than four years after classrooms first closed in the pandemic school attendance in Wales still trails more than 4% below pre-pandemic levels. Persistent absence is also a stubborn problem with 3% of Wales’ 469,00 pupils missing 10% or more school sessions in the last school year, rising to 7.2% of those eligible for free school meals, latest Welsh Government data shows.Rhian Wilkinson says…

What’s on the front page of The National this morning?  The front page of The National this morning – 03/12/2024 – reports the UK Government has been blasted over new plans to prioritise UK-based defence firms for investment. On Monday, Defence Secretary John Healey launched the Government’s Defence Industrial Strategy, with a view towards growing the UK’s defence sector. Speaking at a London Defence Conference event with investors in London, Healey set an ambition to increase defence sector jobs in “every nation and region of the UK”. THE SNP and Plaid Cymru are to submit a cross-party amendment calling for…

What’s on the front page of the Metro this morning? The front page of the Metro this morning – 03/12/2024 – reports on the government’s clampdown on stalkers. Victims of online stalking will get the right to learn the identity of their tormenters as part of a new government clampdown on the terrifying crime.At the moment, those whose lives are thrown into turmoil by chilling messages and pictures sometimes need to wait until a court appearance to find out who is responsible for them.But the Home Office has today announced plans to introduce a ‘Right to Know’, which would allow the police…

What’s on the front page of The Guardian this morning? The front page of The Guardian this morning – 03/12/2025  – reports that the new head of National Cyber Security Centre is  to warn of the risk to infrastructure in first major speech.The UK is underestimating the severity of the online threat it faces from hostile states and criminal gangs, the country’s cybersecurity chief will warn. Richard Horne, the head of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre, will cite a trebling of “severe” incidents amid Russian “aggression and recklessness” and China’s “highly sophisticated” digital operations.Caps on political donations are being considered by…

What’s on the front page of The Independent this morning?The front page of The Independent this morning – 03/12/2024 – reports on the latest in the Gregg Wallace scandal. A large image of Joe Biden makes the front splash as the US – and incoming president Donald Trump – react to news that Joe Biden has given his son Hunter Biden a ‘full and unconditional’ pardon. Gregg Wallace has been forced to apologise for saying that allegations that he had made inappropriate sexual comments had come from “middle-class women of a certain age”, after Downing Street called his explanation “inappropriate and misogynistic”.President Joe…

Tuesday’s tabloids continue coverage of the Gregg Wallace scandal – reporting that he has since apologised for his comments that his accusers are just “middle-class women of a certain age”. Several papers report MPs want a cultural change at the BBC, noting this is another in a string of allegations made against a BBC presenter, whilst other headlines reflect news that the BBC will continue to air his show MasterChef, despite the growing list of accusations.

The prime minister’s foreign policy speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet on Monday has provoked contrasting reactions from the press.

International news also finds a place on the UK front pages this morning. Donald Trump has threatened to release and pardon January 6 rioters, in response to Joe Biden issuing a ‘full and unconditional’ pardon to his son Hunter Biden.

There are fears that the French government is about to collapse after the French prime minister pushed through his ‘austerity’ budget.

The latest Premier League gossip dominates the back pages.

Truong My Lan’s life could still be spared if she pays back three-quarters of the assets she embezzled.A Vietnamese court has rejected a real estate tycoon’s appeal, upholding the death sentence handed down for the embezzlement of $12bn. The court in Ho Chi Minh City ruled against Truong My Lan’s appeal in the case, which has raised concerns over the impact on the country’s economy due to the huge sums involved. The High People’s Court determined there was no basis to reduce Lan’s death sentence, local media reported. However, it also said that the sentence could be commuted to life imprisonment…

VENICE – It’s sentencing day. Today Filippo Turetta, 22 years old, on trial for the feminicide of his ex-girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin, will be before the Court of Assizes of the Venice court to hear the verdict. It is the fifth and final hearing of a lightning trial. Filippo Turetta, today the sentence in the trial for the murder of Giulia Cecchettin https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/03/news/filippo_turetta_giulia_cecchettin_sentenza_processo_oggi-423810311/?rss