Today’s news summary – Paper Talk: Tories face 1997-style wipeout Many of Monday’s front pages…

Britain is sending 20,000 sailors, soldiers and aviators close to Russia’s borders in Nato’s biggest military exercise since the Cold War.

Most of Sunday’s front pages continue their coverage of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East as they note the grim 100-day milestone. 

New president Lai Ching-te has been denounced by China as a dangerous seperatist.

I am hugely concerned about what precedent this is setting for British democracy, and the wider destabilisation in the Middle East.

Ex-President Donald Trump held a town hall and a press conference around his civil fraud trial shortly after his wife Melania’s mother died.