The Independent front page reports according to Western Intelligence is not believed a full Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv will happen.
Author: WTX News Editor
Russia has been accused by the UK, US, France Albania, Ireland and Norway of war crimes in Ukraine, the Guardian reports.
The Metro said P&O is facing outrage and a mutiny on its ships following the sacking of the crew members.
The Sun does not hold back in expressing its anger over the events, the paper describes the “furious backlash” that followed the sacking.
The Daily Mirror leads with an exclusive report on a group of mothers who have been carrying out missions to rescue children from Kyiv – they have rescued 227 children so far.
The Daily Express quotes unions who accused P&O of “betrayal” after the company sacked 800 staff and replaced them with cheaper agency workers.
The Independent says Brittney Griner’s family say the basketball star is “OK” but not “good” as Russia extended her detention by at least several more months.
The Independent says a Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with a total of 41 sex offences, including rape, coercive and controlling behaviour, and sexual assault.
The Independent says Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky invoked the fall of the Berlin Wall in an emotional address before the German parliament on Thursday.
The Guardian says a 12-year-old boy has denied carrying out a 10-month burglary spree at prestigious hotels in London and the BBC Television Centre complex, a court heard.
The Guardian says visitor numbers at Britain’s museums, galleries, zoos, castles and country houses increased by 25% last year, but are still down 57% on pre-pandemic levels.
The Guardian says rising numbers of people entering hospital with Covid are leading to other patients becoming infected, staff absences, delayed operations and long waits in emergency departments.
The Guardian says Arnold Schwarzenegger told the Russian people that they are being fed misinformation about their country’s assault on Ukraine and appealed to stop the attack.
The Metro says Pete Davidson’s voyage to the great beyond is now just a pipe dream as the comedian has dropped out of his scheduled space flight.
The Metro says massive queues of lorries built up at ports including Dover and Hull last night after P&O Ferries abruptly sacked its entire shipping staff over a Zoom call.
The Metro says a 13-year-old boy was behind the wheel in a deadly head-on crash that killed nine people.
The Metro says the BBC has paid Princess Diana’s private secretary Patrick Jephson a ‘substantial sum’ in damages after her 1995 Panorama interview.
The Independent says a teenager has admitted racially abusing Marcus Rashford on Twitter after the Euro 2020 final, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
Friday’s papers.
BBC News says all remaining Covid travel restrictions have now been lifted for passengers entering the UK.
The Guardian says Ministers and trade unions have condemned P&O Ferries’ mass sacking of 800 British seafarers to replace them with agency crew.
Euronews says Italy has decided to ease some of its COVID-19 restrictions and will not extend the country’s state of emergency.
France24 says a Russian-European mission to land a rover on Mars has been suspended due to the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.
TRT World says Brazilian tribal leaders and advocates have criticised the granting of an Indigenous rights award to President Jair Bolsonaro.
Four people died after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Japan struck off the northern Japanese coast on Wednesday. Today, residents in Fukushima and Miyagi are cleaning up their homes. Fixing fallen furniture and appliances back into place and scooping up broken dishes and windows. At a hotel in Yabuki town in the Fukushima prefecture, where its wall was broken, its front door thrown out of place, and its dishes broken, employees were starting to clean up.…