Author: News Desk

Today’s news summary – Paper Talk Various stories lead Wednesday’s front pages. Several of the papers mark the 75th anniversary of the NHS, whilst also looking at what its future might be. Whilst reports the US government is pushing for Ursula von der Leyen to be the next secretary general of Nato is another lead. The Princess of Wales pictured at Wimbledon is splashed on some of the morning’s papers. NHS 75 Health Secretary Steve Barclay writes in the Times rejecting calls for radical reform and instead argues the NHS can prosper without a drastic change. Barclay says improving technology…

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When a police officer last week shot and killed a resident of Paris’s suburb of Nanterre, 17-year-old Nahel M., it unleashed a wave of unrest across France – an echo of similar protests launched by youth living in housing projects two decades earlier. Billions of euros of investment in the years since have done little to calm anger over police harassment and poor living conditions in France’s housing projects.

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