Author: News Desk

The Metro says Friends and family of two British men told they will face a firing squad in occupied east Ukraine have rubbished the Kremlin’s case that they are guns for hire.

Friday’s papers are dominated by the news of the Brits sentenced to death by a Russian proxy court.

BBC News says Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will speak with her Ukrainian counterpart about two Britons handed death sentences by a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine.

Sky News says thousands of new school places are to be created in England – particularly for children in disadvantaged areas and for those with special needs.

France24 says traces of blood have been found on the boat of a suspect arrested in connection with the disappearance of a British journalist and a Brazilian indigenous expert in the Amazon, authorities said Thursday, as calls grew for officials to intensify the search.

Euronews says Almost all of Portugal was in severe drought at the end of May, the country’s weather service (IPMA) said on Thursday.

TRT World says a group of migrants that once numbered as many as 5,000 have split about whether to keep walking through southern Mexico toward the US border.

VOA says a U.S. congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol held its first public hearing Thursday evening.

BBC News says Britney Spears has married fiancé Sam Asghari, seven months after being freed from a conservatorship that she said had prevented her from getting wed.

The controversial Rwanda plan is set to see the first group of migrants be flown to Rwanda under a new scheme from the British government.