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Elementor #573877December 19, 20231 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today The Sun – Happy To Be HomeAlex Batty, who turned up in France last week after disappearing six years ago, says he’s happy to be home for Christmas, reports The Sun.The paper says he’s now been reunited with his grandmother at home in Oldham. It also reports police suggesting “there is every chance” Alex’s grandfather is still alive, despite Alex telling French prosecutors that he had died.The front page also reports that the UK government has issued its guidelines around self-identity in UK schools.  Today’s top stories…

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Today’s news summary – Paper Talk: Furious row – Michelle Mone vs Rishi Sunak Tuesday’s papers are leading with a variety of stories. The Financial Times leads on the abandoning of a £20 billion acquisition deal between tech giants Adobe and Figma due to “no clear path to receive necessary regulatory approvals from UK and Brussels watchdogs”. The Daily Telegraph highlights the government’s newly issued guidance for educators on transgender matters, emphasising a presumption that children cannot change gender. The approach encourages a “parent first” strategy, requiring headteachers to inform parents if a child expresses a desire to change gender. The…

The season of good will and festive cheer is just around the corner, but for the residents of soap those two concepts are nowhere to be found, with a holiday season guaranteed to tear their worlds apart.

‘Let us live in peace! Or go to the front yourself – and die.’

The current 10-year trend is “going in the wrong direction”, warns the worrying environmental report.

Israel has gone beyond self-defence in Gaza, Tory MP Alicia Kearns says The chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee, Tory MP Alicia Kearns, has said that Israel has gone beyond self-defence in its conflict with Hamas. She told the BBC she believes Israel has broken international law and risks increasing support for Hamas among Palestinians. She said: “Bombs don’t obliterate an ideology and neither can a stable state be constructed from oblivion.”Former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has also criticised Israel’s tactics, writing in the Daily Telegraph that its legal justification for military action in Gaza is being undermined, and…

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China quake kills more than 100, rescue efforts dire amid freezing conditions A devastating 6.2 magnitude earthquake has struck rural Gansu province in north-west China, killing at least 105 people and leaving over 250 others injured. The neighbouring Qinghai province has also suffered, with an additional 13 fatalities and 182 injuries reported.  Rescue operations are facing challenging conditions, battling freezing temperatures plummeting below -13°C in their search for survivors. Officials say that the sub-zero temperatures have shortened the “golden window” for finding survivors, adding urgency to the rescue efforts. The quake has caused extensive damage, impacting over 5,000 houses and…

A doctor has warned Christmas is ‘bad news’ for your sex life.