The Independent says Metropolitan Police are believed to have begun issuing more fines to Downing Street staff over gatherings held in government offices during Covid lockdown curbs.
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The Independent says More than two million adults in the UK have skipped meals for a whole day over the past month because they cannot afford to eat, new research on the cost of living crisis says.
The Independent says the Italian government has seized a luxury superyacht worth an estimated £570m that is believed to be linked to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The Guardian says Carolyn Egan has seen people cross the Canada-US border for abortions – going north to south.
The Guardian says picnics have been banned and bins fenced off in a large swathe of northern Rome as health authorities move to contain the wild boar population after African swine fever was detected in a deceased animal.
The Guardian says polls opened in the Philippines on Monday as the country decides its next president in a polarising race between frontrunner Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son of the late dictator, and a human rights lawyer who has vowed to tackle old, rotten politics.
The Guardian says more than 2 million adults in the UK have gone without food for a whole day over the past month because they cannot afford to eat, according to a survey revealing the “catastrophic” impact of the cost of living crisis.
The Guardian says the Democratic Unionist party is to seek an urgent meeting with Boris Johnson to warn him it will stall power-sharing at Stormont until Christmas if the Northern Ireland protocol is not modified.
Monday’s front pages.
There are fears Vladimir Putin will use today’s massive annual May 9 Russia Victory Day parade, in which Russia celebrates its historic defeat of the Nazis, to declare all-out war on Ukraine and mobilise citizens to sign up to the bloodshed
Aljazeera says millions of Filipinos have begun voting to choose a new president in an election pitting the son of the Philippines’ late dictator against a liberal human rights lawyer.
Arab News says as many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said on Sunday.
Euronews says leaders from the Group of Seven developed democracies pledged Sunday to phase out or ban the import of Russian oil.
VLADIMIR Putin’s lover has been discovered to be pregnant again, it was reported in Moscow yesterday.
Sky News says Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has pulled out of a keynote speech he is due to give today – as pressure mounts on him over so-called ‘beergate’ claims.
Sinn Fein’s victory in Northern Ireland’s Assembly elections features on many front pages of the Sunday papers.
Brussels proposes to stop Russian oil imports by the end of the year, but can Germany stick to the deadline? Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, has today unveiled a proposal to impose an EU-wide ban on Russian oil imports, one of Moscow’s main sources of revenue. The embargo will be structured and gradual, giving member states up to six months to phase out purchases of Russian crude and until the end of the year to stop buying all sorts of refined oil products. Modi refuses to condemn Russia for invading Ukraine Stop Russian oil imports The…
Modi refuses to condemn Russia for invading Ukraine in a meeting with President Macron. India and France on Wednesday called for “an immediate cessation of hostilities” in Ukraine, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi again stopping short of condemning Russia’s invasion of its neighbour. India, which imports much of its military hardware from Russia, has long walked a diplomatic tightrope between the West and Moscow. Notably refusing to denounce the latter or vote against it at the United Nations over its actions in Ukraine. “France and India expressed their deep concern over the humanitarian crisis and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine,”…
Windfall tax now reads the headline on the front page of the Daily Mirror – which leads with the demands for a windfall tax on energy giants
PM Boris Johnson: I’ll fire up economy to beat cost of living crisis says the front page of the Daily Express – which leads with the PM’s claims.
Maddie pyjamas fibres in suspect’s van reads the headline on the front page of the Sun – which reports on the Madeleine McCann case.
Joe Biden has issued a warning over the leaked draft Supreme Court ruling that threatens abortion rights in the US, the Guardian reports.
A former pub landlord sent thousands of pounds he borrowed in COVID “bounce back” loans to ISIS, says the Metro.
Daily Mirror says Britain is set to bake in glorious sunshine with temperatures set to hit a high of 20C as warm weather sweeps in from the Atlantic Azores Islands.
Daily Mirror says Slippery Boris Johnson is taking hard-up Britain for a ride. ‘Boris Johnson doesn’t have a clue about people’s lives – he is unfit to be PM’