Author: News Desk

The Guardian says three people have died and two drivers have been arrested after a serious collision involving a lorry, a minibus and a car on the M25 in Essex. A fourth person is in hospital.

France24 says authorities in Nice opened an investigation into the ugly incidents which led to the abandonment of the weekend Ligue 1 match between the home side and Marseille.

Sky News says a person from Afghanistan on the UK’s no-fly list has been flown into Birmingham as part of the British evacuation operation in a potential security breach.

VOA says the US has evacuated 7,400 people from Kabul in the past 24 hours, as officials confront what Antony Blinken described as an “incredibly volatile situation at the airport”.

TRT World says Tunisia’s President Kais Saied extended the suspension of parliament, after last month dismissing his prime minister and assuming executive authority.

Aljazeera says Israeli warplanes bombed Hamas sites in Gaza in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian enclave that caused brush fires in southern Israel.

The Daily Mirror reports the arrest of a man on suspicion of assaulting former model and TV personality Katie Price in a ‘home bust-up’.

The Daily Mail headline says “Get out in seven days… or else.” As a person was cleared to board the RAF plane before checks in mid-air revealed they were barred.

The Daily Express highlights a suggestion from the Taliban that there will be “consequences” if international forces stay in the country.

The Japanese government frantically started administering the AstraZeneca vaccine in order to add a much-needed impetus to the flailing Japan vaccination rate. Especially focusing on the city of Osaka as part of an effort to step up vaccinations. The Japanese government has provided a total of 52,800 doses of the vaccine to six states — Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Osaka and Okinawa — that have been under a COVID-19 state of emergency. This push to increase vaccinations has come in the same week that the Tokyo 2021 Paralympics have started The Japanese health ministry approved the vaccine developed by the…