Author: News Desk

The Guardian says the death toll from landslides and floods in the Philippines rose to 123 on Wednesday with scores missing and feared dead.

The Guardian says former Colombia captain Freddy Rincón has died aged 55 after sustaining severe head injuries in a car crash.

Thursday’s front pages.

BBC News says a Conservative peer has resigned as a justice minister over Covid law-breaking in Downing Street.

Sky News says the government plans to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing in an attempt to tackle small boat crossings in the Channel.

France24 says French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Wednesday backed closer ties between NATO and Russia, adding that if she won the presidency Paris would once again leave the military command of the US-led alliance.

Euronews says Ukrainian forces in the Odesa region have struck the Russian guided-missile cruiser Moskva with two missiles and caused “serious damage.”

TRT World says thousands of Argentines have marched for jobs, food, and more social aid as rampant inflation undermines government efforts to raise living standards.

VOA says the suspect in a mass shooting on a New York City subway was arrested Wednesday afternoon and charged with a federal terrorism offence.

Finland will make a decision on whether to apply for NATO membership in “weeks rather than months”, its prime minister has said. Prime Minister Sanna Marin, speaking on Wednesday, said she was keen to build a consensus to join the alliance within the Finnish parliament. Commentators in Eastern Europe have suggested that Finland has been subject to intense US pressure for Finland to make NATO membership. But the sentiment within Finland is heavily divided. The Finns enjoy a ‘good relationship’ with its Russian neighbours and sentiment within the country suggests most people feel this will provoke Russia. Finland to make…