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The Guardian says Matt Hancock’s use of private emails that bypassed disclosure rules when doing government business came under scrutiny this weekend

The Guardian says New York prosecutors have given lawyers for Donald Trump 24 hours to respond with any last arguments as to why criminal charges should not be filed against his family business.

New South Wales police have fined two men for breaching coronavirus restrictions after they were startled by a deer while sunbaking naked on a beach.

The Guardian says deep-rooted structural inequalities and patriarchal values are to blame for India’s worrying Covid vaccine gender gap.

The Guardian reports Keir Starmer says Boris Johnson still has “huge questions to answer” over Matt Hancock.

The i leads with the Dept of Health will look at how footage of Hancock embracing his aide came to be leaked.

The Times reports that Priti Patel will introduce new laws to create an off-shore immigration hub for asylum seekers.

The Daily Mirror reports that Matt Hancock is facing calls to be stripped of a £16,000 payout he is set to receive after resigning.

The Daily Mail asks “did affair with aide start a year ago?”. The day before it was reported the relationship only started last month.

Metro says that Matt Hancock has been reported to the police over his breach of social distancing guidance.

The death toll from the Florida building collapse rose to nine, as rescue workers search for more than 150 other people.

The Ministry of Defence said that an employee told it last week that the documents had been lost, and that an investigation had been launched.  The documents, which include emails and PowerPoint presentations, originated in the office of a senior official at the MoD.

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has reimposed restrictions for two weeks to combat a surge in the highly contagious Delta variant.

Nine people, including 4 police officers, have died in separate attacks across Colombia, which has seen a recent surge in violence.

US strikes on eastern Syria near the border with Iraq killed at least five Iran-backed militia fighters, a war monitor reported.

Italy became a mask-free, “low-risk” zone for coronavirus, marking a milestone for the first European country to be hit by Covid.

BBC News says health secretary Sajid Javid will update MPs later on when the remaining Covid measures will lift in England.

Egypt brokers a deal with Hamas Israel – to allow emergency supplies through the crossing starting with fuel to power the powerplant in Gaza. Egypt has brokered this much-needed deal that will allow much-needed emergency supplies into the region, where people are lying on hospital beds for treatment, held up by the lack of power and medical supplies. Violent clashes broke out in Al Aqsa this year which erupted into violent clashes, where Israel pushed through with further illegal settlements and blocked all food, water and aid into Gaza, starving the people of Gaza. The United Nations (UN) Middle East…

The Sunday papers report heavily on the resignation of health secretary Matt Hancock following the kissing scandal with aide Gina Coladangelo.

Matching their achievements of 2016 is going to take some doing but Wales have the chance to reach the quarter-finals of the Euros 2020 when they face Denmark.

Matt Hancock has admitted to breaking social distancing rules after pictures of him kissing an aide were published in The Sun. 

The UK has reported 35,204 new Delta cases in the latest week – a 46% increase. The new cases bring the total number of confirmed cases to 111,157. 

Popstar Britney Spears has apologised to her fans for pretending to be OK while she was suffering under her “abusive” conservatorship. 

Health Secretary Matt Hancock, 42, is fighting for his job today after an accusation of him having an affair with his closest aide. 

Winston Marshall’s millionaire Brexiteer father backs him for quitting Mumford and Sons after he became ‘cancel culture’ victim of ‘viral mob’ when he praised US conservative journalist