Author: News Desk

Several of Thursday’s front pages report ongoing turmoil for the UK economy

Sky News says Boris Johnson will announce new measures to help people to get on to the property ladder during a speech in which he pledges to hard-pressed UK households that “things will get better”.

BBC News says A teacher was killed and 14 schoolchildren were injured after a car hit a crowd on a busy street in the German capital, Berlin.

Euronews says the European Union’s Anti-Fraud office recommended this year that more than €500 million of EU funds be recovered.

Arab News says Shanghai will lock down a district of 2.7 million people on Saturday to conduct mass coronavirus testing, city authorities said, as the Chinese metropolis struggles to fully emerge from punishing curbs.

Arab News says workers pulled scores of bodies from smashed buildings in an “endless caravan of death” inside the devastated city of Mariupol.

TRT World says the US House has voted for a bill that raises the minimum age to purchase a semi-automatic assault rifle in the country from 18 to 21, in an attempt to tackle the mass shooting sprees that has plagued the United States.

BBC Sport says Emma Raducanu is expected to be fit for Wimbledon after a scan showed the injury which forced her to retire at the Nottingham Open was a side strain.

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