A serious firearms incident in Plymouth leads many of Friday’s front pages – released before police confirmed six people had died. The Times says there have been multiple fatalities.
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The UK faces its biggest test for “living with” Covid this weekend, claims the i paper, as it says 1.7m will socialise at mass events and festivals.
Confirmation that UK and US troops will return to Afghanistan to hasten evacuations came as its second-largest city Kandahar was claimed by the Taliban, the Guardian says.
TRT World says Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to pull the plug on his minority Liberal government and call snap elections on Sunday.
France24 says fires stoked by hot winds swept through southern Italy on Thursday, a day after a monitoring station in Sicily reported temperatures of 48.8 Celsius.
Arab News says underage marriage in Jordan surged last year during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic due to increased financial hardship among poorer families.
VOA says Britney Spears’ father said in a court filing Thursday that he was planning to step down from the conservatorship that has controlled her life and money for 13 years.
Aljazeera says the Taliban has captured the key city of Lashkar Gah in southern Afghanistan, a day after the group claimed control over Kandahar and Herat.
BBC News says police in Plymouth have confirmed six people – including a suspected gunman – have died in a firearms incident.
“Operation Kabul” is the Metro’s headline as it reports 600 British troops will be sent to help an estimated 4,000 UK nationals and ex-Afghan staff flee.
The Daily Mail says six people were shot dead. It notes local MPs urged residents to stay calm and that they denied the incident was terror related.
The Daily Mirror says there are fears of a high death toll and multiple injuries after the Plymouth incident, which it describes as a “city rampage”.
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Dame Cressida Dick has said: “no one is above the law” when asked about the allegations against Prince Andrew and says her team are having another look at the material.
The Guardian says Ted Lasso has changed my life. It’s about a coach of an American football college team who, improbably, is taken on as manager of an English Premier League football team.
The New Yorker says naturally, “Ted Lasso,” the picture of a Midwestern gentleman, introduces the lady first. In the opening scene of the series, Rebecca Welton gazes at a Hockney on the wall.
THR says Ted Lasso’s season one launch on Apple TV+ might have been the result of divine timing. Five months into the pandemic and an anxiety-inducing presidential election around the corner.
SALON says if magazine profiles, TV best-of lists andTwitter are to be believed, Apple’s uber-optimistic “Ted Lasso” was the beacon of light that helped just about every human being.
The Independent says Italy has been hit by a heatwave this week as the south of the country battles wildfires.
New Zealand’s much-awaited, albeit cautious, roadmap for reopening its borders has given businesses and families a taste of hope for the future
The i says an Italian tourist holidaying in Greece has described how wildfires erupted “like a bomb”, with ash raining from the sky and leaving a taste of smoke in his mouth.
The i says Afghanistan faces a spiralling humanitarian crisis as western troops withdraw and the Taliban takes control of more of the country, leading political figures have warned.
Julian Assange, has lost a high court battle to prevent the US government expanding the grounds for its appeal against an earlier refusal to allow his extradition to face charges of espionage.
The Independent says at least five people have died and 30 people are feared trapped under debris after yet another landslide struck the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh
The Independent says now that Virginia Giuffre has sued the prince, the allegations against him, which are serious, are commanding headlines again.