Aljazeera says Australia’s capital Canberra has announced a snap one-week lockdown after reporting its first locally acquired case of COVID-19 in more than a year.
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Arab News says Kuwait has expressed its “deep concern” over the serious consequences of threatening the safety of maritime navigation in the Arabian Gulf, Sea of Oman and Arabian Sea.
“Return to the dark ages” says the Metro as it reports the terror of displaced Afghans who are facing the threat of the Taliban. It says fighters have celebrated the seizure of swathes of territory.
The arrest of a British embassy worker in Germany accused of passing on classified documents to a Russian spy has echoes of the Cold War for the Daily Mail.
The Daily Mirror says German prosecutors believe the security worker passed on documents “on at least one occasion”. It says an “MI5-led” operation resulted in the man being detained.
The US Sun says MAKEUP mogul Kylie Jenner has grown up in front of cameras and it’s no secret she has possibly become the most popular of the Kardashian-Jenner sisters.
The Sun says KYLIE Jenner hid her tummy amid pregnancy rumors. The TV personality went braless in a busty green sweater dress on her 24th birthday.
The Daily Mail says Kim Kardashian famously caused a storm when she showed off North West’s impressive art skills earlier this year – with critics claiming they were lying.
The Daily Mirror says Travis Scott whipped up a social media storm by posting a sizzling snap of girlfriend Kylie Jenner wearing a plunging lace-up top to celebrate her birthday.
The Times says high achievers have been turned away from leading Scottish universities due to huge demand for places after a second year of rampant grade inflation.
The Guardian says Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts linked to a mysterious advertising agency operating from Russia that sought to pay social media influencers to smear Covid-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and AstraZeneca.
The i says Prince Andrew arrived at Balmoral for a holiday with the Queen last night 24 hours after a lawsuit accused him of sex abuse.
Lithuania’s parliament has voted to build a fence on the Belarus border to stop Iraqis, Afghans and other non-EU migrants entering.
The Guardian says the Taliban have captured the key Afghan city of Pul-e-Khumri, 140 miles north of the capital Kabul, giving the insurgents control of a strategic road junction linking Kabul to the north and west
The i says Paris Saint-Germain have confirmed the signing of Lionel Messi on a free transfer from Barcelona.
Saudi Arabia voiced its support for the Lebanese people during a cabinet meeting overnight Tuesday but warned that any aid would not be allowed to reach corrupt officials.
The Times says students of medicine will be offered £10,000 to move medical schools after more university applicants than expected met the terms of their offers.
The Times says Germany will try to revitalise its immunisation campaign by forcing unvaccinated people to pay for the rapid test results they need to visit hospitals, care homes, bars, restaurants and cinemas.
The i says the Dixie Fire is now California’s largest single wildfire in recorded history having burned an area more than twice the size of New York City.
The Guardian says as Covid cases among children continue to rise in the US due to spread of the Delta variant, experts are urging the federal government to fast-track vaccine approval for those under the age of 12.
The i says three quarters of all adults in the UK have now been double vaccinated against Covid-19, according to official statistics.
The Guardian says the government is coming under pressure to intervene amid concerns that its Covid testing regime for travellers is close to collapse, with thousands failing to be properly tested on their return.
The Times says the snow on the Pyrenees where Esther Dingley disappeared had long melted but for months there was no trace of the missing British hiker.
Algeria’s president announced that 25 soldiers were killed while rescuing citizens from wildfires raging across woods and communities east of the capital.
The Times says David Cameron’s employer secured a £123 million genetic-sequencing contract after the former prime minister lobbied Matt Hancock to attend a genomics conference.