The Times says President Biden led calls for the resignation of Andrew Cuomo, the New York governor, after an investigation found that he sexually harassed numerous women
Author: WTX News Editor
The Guardian says Joe Biden has led calls from both parties for New York governor Andrew Cuomo to resign after an investigation found he had sexually harassed 11 women.
The Guardian says Prof Sarah Gilbert has had quite a year. The co-creator of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab has been made a dame, been given an emotional standing ovation at Wimbledon – and now a Barbie doll has been made in her honour.
The i says ministers are poised to add at least 15 countries onto the green list when the Government announces the latest review of the travel traffic light system tomorrow.
The Guardian says at half-past-ten on Wednesday morning, Sky Brown, 13 years, tipped forward on her board and dropped into the scalded concrete bowl of the Olympic skate park.
The Times says Spain will not be placed on the travel red list, because of a significant fall in cases and concerns that there are not enough hotel rooms to quarantine holidaymakers returning to England.
The i says a second official VIP “Brexit jet” painted in Union flag livery will cost taxpayers up to £75m over the next five years after it was sourced via the same company in charge of Britain’s Covid hotel quarantine system.
The Guardian says Sir Keir Starmer has accused the prime minister of having an “irresponsibly small” ambition to tackle the scale of climate breakdown.
The Times says the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation is expected to offer jabs for those aged 16 and 17 in a “significant move to build up immunity in young people”.
A suggestion from Scotland’s first minister that the UK Covid vaccine roll-out will shortly be extended to 16 and 17 year-olds leads several of Wednesday’s papers.
VOA says a Pentagon police officer was killed during an attack at the Pentagon public transit hub Tuesday, gunfire was exchanged and there were multiple injuries.
TRT World says the Turkish government has said a vast majority of forest fires that have ravaged the south of the country for almost a week have been contained.
Aljazeera says Ahmadullah Azadani climbed on the roof of his house and awaited something that would have been unthinkable in the city even a week earlier.
Arab News says Australia’s New South Wales reported one of the country’s youngest deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, as daily infections lingered near a 16-month high.
BBC News says an emotional Sky Brown broke down in tears after becoming Great Britain’s youngest Olympic medal winner of all time.
France24 says public anger in Lebanon is mounting a year after the August 4, 2020, Beirut blast, with a stalled investigation, crippling economic crisis and political sclerosis.
The Daily Express reports on a study suggesting people who are doubled jabbed are three times less likely to catch Covid, proving the UK’s vaccine roll-out is winning the war.
Metro’s main story focuses on Covid, with the paper reporting that a further fall in the number of UK Covid cases has raised hopes that the third wave is in retreat.
A full-page photograph of Jason Kenny and his wife Laura dominates the front of the Daily Mirror after the cyclist became Britain’s most decorated Olympian.
Donald Trump is fuelling rumours he’ll run for president again in 2024, as it is confirmed he will host a rally in Alabama later this month.
BBC News says New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard made history by being the first openly transgender Olympian.
The Daily Mail says a Belarusian activist living in Ukraine who helped his fellow countrymen flee the dictatorship of Alexander Lukashenko has been found dead.
The Sun says an opponent of feared Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko has been found hanged in suspicious circumstances.
The Metro says a Belarusian activist has been found dead in a park in Ukraine as police launch an investigation into a possible murder disguised as suicide.
Aljazeera says a Belarusian activist has been found dead in a park near his home in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, a day after he was reported missing, police said.