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The Guardian says Downing Street has described alleged remarks made about former Labour MP Diane Abbott by a prominent Conservative Party donor as “racist and wrong”.

The Daily Mirror has spoken to one of the hundreds of people who have contacted police about a funeral directors in Hull – with many of them concerned they may have “buried the wrong loved one or been given the wrong ashes”.

Former prime minister Boris Johnson will hit the campaign trail to protect the “Brexit freedoms he secured with his election victory” in 2019, the Daily Express reports.

Late comedian Paul O’Grady left £15.5m in his will – with £125,000 set aside to look after his five pet dogs, The Sun reports.

A variety of, mostly domestic, topics dominate the UK front pages. The latest from the UK political scene makes a few of the splashes, as the government admitted comments made by one of the party’s biggest donors were racist. 

Google has confirmed it is implementing restrictions on the types of election-related questions users can pose to its Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot Gemini. 

Norway gay bar gun attack video shown as trial starts Zaniar Matapour, 44, has pleaded not guilty to terror charges at the start of his trial for the murder of two people in a gun attack on two bars in Oslo.  At the start of the trial, a three-minute police video was shown, showing CCTV footage of how the attack unfolded outside the two bars during Pride celebrations. Passers-by are seen tackling Matapour to the ground. Prosecutors say the court will have to determine whether he was sane at the time. Footage from three closed-circuit cameras followed the movements of…

In a recent development regarding the ongoing South China Sea dispute, China has accused the Philippines of ignoring proposals aimed at managing the conflict. According to an unnamed senior Chinese official speaking to the Manila Times, the proposals were “met with inaction by the Marcos administration”.

Leonid Volkov, a long-time ally of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has been attacked outside his home in Lithuania.  Volkov was attacked with a hammer and tear gas while in his car in Vilnius on Tuesday night. 

The EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has said starvation is being used as a weapon of war in Gaza. He said the lack of aid entering the strip was a “manmade” disaster.