The Guardian – Blinken joins 11th-hour talks on Gaza ceasefire talks
The Guardian says the US secretary of state has arrived in Israel for 11th-hour talks aimed at shoring up a deal for a lasting ceasefire in the war in Gaza, amid signals from Israeli and Hamas officials that a breakthrough may not be as close as international mediators had suggested.
Elsewhere, the front page reports on newly released figures showing Black children are four times more likely to be strip-searched by police officers across England and Wales than their white counterparts, according to the latest nationwide figures disclosed by a watchdog.
There is a large image of French actor Alain Delon who has died at the age of 88. The paper quotes French President Emmanuel Macron who said: “He offered his unforgettable face to shake our lives. He was a monument.”
Blinken arrives in Israel for 11th-hour talks on Gaza ceasefire deal
The US secretary of state has arrived in Israel for 11th-hour talks aimed at shoring up a deal for a lasting ceasefire in the war in Gaza, amid signals from Israeli and Hamas officials that a breakthrough may not be as close as international mediators had suggested.
Antony Blinken flew into Tel Aviv on Sunday as part of Washington’s renewed efforts to broker a ceasefire in the 10-month-old conflict, negotiations seen as even more urgent after last month’s back-to-back assassinations of a top Hezbollah commander and the Hamas political chief, Ismail Haniyeh.
It is hoped a ceasefire would lower the temperature in the Middle East and dissuade Iran and Hezbollah from retaliatory action that could cause the war in Gaza to slide quickly into a region-wide conflict.
Black children in England and Wales four times more likely to be strip-searched, figures show
Black children are four times more likely to be strip-searched by police officers across England and Wales than their white counterparts, according to the latest nationwide figures disclosed by a watchdog.
The children’s commissioner also found that children under the age of 15 are a bigger proportion of those subjected to intimate searches, official figures from the year to June 2023 showed. Fewer than half of all searches of children in that year (45%) were conducted in the presence of an appropriate adult.
A report released on Monday also found that nearly nine out of every 10 of searches [88%] conducted by England and Wales’s 44 forces were trying to find drugs.
It said that over the five years to June 2023, children as young as eight have been strip-searched every 14 hours by police in England. More than 3,000 intimate procedures were conducted on children between January 2018 and June 2023.
Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
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Editorial 19 August 2024.
Monday’s front pages reflect various domestic issues facing the country including the latest from Westminster and a round-up of this weekend’s Premier League action.
Several of the papers feature an image of French actor Alain Delon, who has died at the age of 88. Several other more right-leaning – and tabloids – lead with images of Prince Harry and Meghan who visited Colombia last week.
The back pages are heavily dominated by football as the weekend saw the return of England’s top flight.