BBC News says Rishi Sunak has defended his wife’s tax affairs, calling reports on her non-domicile status “unpleasant smears”.
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Sky News says murdered primary school teacher Sabina Nessa appeared “oblivious” to a garage worker running up behind her before he struck her 34 times.
France24 says at least two people were killed Thursday and several wounded in a shooting spree in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv.
Euronews says European Union countries agreed on Thursday on a Russian coal embargo as part of a fifth round of sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine.
TRT World says Ketanji Brown Jackson has been confirmed by the Senate as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court in a milestone for the US.
VOA says more than a million customers in Puerto Rico remained without electricity on Thursday after a fire at a main power plant caused the biggest blackout so far this year.
The Guardian – PM’s push for nuclear power splits Tories and angers green groups
The Metro – Tax rises? I haven’t a problem
The Independent – Sunak’s wife avoids tax through non-dom status
Daily Mirror – Sunak wife tax fury
The Sun – UK’s biggest fuel heists: Fill yer boats
The Metro says young environmentalists continued a campaign of disruption to oil distribution around the UK early this morning, after scaling fences at a depot.
The Metro says Rishi Sunak’s wife does not pay taxes to the British government for money she earns abroad, it has been revealed.
The Metro says President Joe Biden endured an awkward moment with lawmakers ignoring him and flocking to ex-President Barack Obama, who returned to the White House for the first time since terming out.
The Metro says Thomas Tuchel claims Chelsea’s Champions League hopes are already over following their 3-1 defeat to Real Madrid at Stamford Bridge.
The Independent says Police in Northern Ireland are to send safety equipment to Ukraine.
The Independent says months after her birth in April 1980, Akshata Murthy’s ambitious parents left her in the care of her paternal grandparents to build a better life for their young family hundreds of miles away in Mumbai.
UK government freezes assets of Russia’s largest bank in latest sanctions The Independent says the UK has imposed an asset freeze on the Kremlin’s largest bank and an end to all new investment into Russia, the government has announced. The asset freezes will apply against Sberbank — Russia’s largest bank — in coordination with the United States’ sanctions, and the Credit Bank of Moscow. The latest round of sanctions comes in response to the scenes of atrocities that were revealed when Russian forces left the town of Bucha, northwest of the capital, Kyiv, last week. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-government-russia-kremlin-bank-sanctions-b2052268.html ………………….. FOLLOW US ON…
The Independent says the Government has promised to take back control of energy prices through boosts to nuclear, wind, solar and hydrogen in its long-awaited energy strategy.
The Independent says a sex predator is facing life behind bars for murdering primary school teacher Sabina Nessa.
The Guardian says the UK will impose an asset freeze on Russia’s largest bank, place sanctions on eight more oligarchs and end imports of oil and coal by next year, the foreign secretary has said.
The Guardian says Rishi Sunak’s multi-millionaire wife claims non-domicile status, it has emerged, which allows her to save millions of pounds in tax on dividends collected from her family’s IT business empire.
The Guardian says about 50 Tory MPs could force the government to toughen up its ban on conversion practices by backing a move to extend the protections to transgender people.
The Guardian says German authorities have swooped on alleged neo-Nazi militant cells and arrested four suspects as the country pursues a forceful crackdown on far-right extremists.
Thursday front pages.