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Rishi awkwardly laughs off election date question in radio grilling Rishi Sunak has been criticised for laughing off a question about when a general election…

Tuesday’s front pages feature a variety of stories with the escalation in the Middle East taking the lead for several papers. An Iranian general has been killed in Syria during an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate building in Damascus. The papers see the bombing as an escalation and note Tehran has vowed a ‘harsh’ response to the attack. 

Several front pages feature ongoing coverage of the UK political scene ahead of this year’s general election. A couple of papers from across the political spectrum suggest Tory rebels are plotting to oust the prime minister regardless of whether he can turn the economic situation around. 

Donald Trump has posted a $175m (£140m) bond in his New York civil fraud case. The former US president was originally ordered to pay the full $464m judgement against him but an appeals court said he could pay the smaller sum within 10 days. 

Jeffrey Donaldson Arrested in response to a complaint received earlier this month, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has taken action by arresting and charging Sir Jeffrey Donaldson with alleged sexual offences.

It’s been a tough Easter for the Labour Party with 20 councillors across three councils, including the council leader, quitting as they accuse the national party of taking a “draconian” shift and using “bullying tactics.” 

Monday’s front pages feature a variety of mostly political news, but almost all of them carry a picture of King Charles attending an Easter church service on Sunday. The papers note that it’s the most significant public appearance since the King revealed his cancer diagnosis. Prince William and Princess Kate – and their children – did not attend the service following the shock announcement of Princess Kate’s cancer. 

The NHS, politics, the war in Gaza, and the latest results from the Premier League also make the front splashes. 

Republican congressman Tim Walberg of Michigan has made shocking remarks suggesting that rather than providing humanitarian aid to Gaza, the US should consider subjecting it to nuclear bombing akin to “Nagasaki and Hiroshima” at the end of World War II.

Politics makes several of the front pages this Easter Sunday with a couple of headlines reflecting on the latest polling and the general public mood ahead of an expected November election. 

Several of Friday’s front pages lead on the mess of Thames Water – Britain’s largest water provider. Lawmakers across the political spectrum have criticised the company’s bosses for the financial mess it is in amid talks that the company could be nationalised.

Several papers lead on UK political news, with PM Rishi Sunak and Labour’s Angela Rayner both reportedly ‘coming under fire’ recently, Sunak for honouring a top Tory donor and Rayner for her controversial property dealings. There’s also a look ahead to the upcoming general election. 

Thursday’s front pages carry various stories – mostly domestic news. Several of the papers report on UK politics, with speculation on a summer general election. There’s coverage of the backlash from the raw sewage spills, and King Charles’s upcoming Easter message.
A few of the tabloids lead on celebrity news, but all-in-all there isn’t much unity on the front pages this morning.

Many of Wednesday’s front pages feature images of the twisted wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The Baltimore Bridge collapsed after a ship lost power and stuck it. The dramatic images are prominently featured on most papers, with many noting a mayday alert likely saved the lives of many people.

Susan Hall’s campaign trail to become the next London mayor has not been a successful one. The Conservative’s London candidate has been caught up in several embarrassing gaffes in the run-up to the election, including a suspicious story where she claimed to have been pickpocketed on the Tube – but it later appeared she had just lost her purse. 

Tuesday’s front pages cover several major domestic topics, including ongoing coverage of Princess Kate, China’s cyber attack on the UK and the UN ceasefire resolution. Many of the papers react to China being formally accused by the British government of being behind “malicious” cyber campaigns against MPs and the UK’s elections watchdog.  

Brigitte García, Ecuador’s youngest mayor, has been shot dead. The 27-year-old, along with her press officer, was discovered deceased in a car on Sunday in the town of San Vicente, where she had triumphed in the mayoral election just last year.

On Pakistan Day the Pakistani Ambassador demonises PTI party in Washington for all the recent disruptions to Pakistani politics. All the discussions at the Pakistan…

Many of Monday’s front pages continue ongoing coverage of the Princess of Wales’ cancer diagnosis. Elsewhere, the British government is set to blame China for a 2021 cyber attack, which saw 40m British voters’ details hacked – that’s on many of the front pages this Monday. 

According to the beneficiary, Rolls-Royce, Aukus funding will help create more than 1,000 new jobs in Derby. The project will see the construction of new office space as well as manufacturing facilities.

Most of Friday’s front pages lead on the same story – the landmark report that calls for women impacted by pension changes. It calls for them to receive payments and follows a campaign by so-called Waspi women – named after the group Women Against State Pension Inequality. 

Thursday’s front pages feature various leads but politics seems to be the hot topic with the government suffering a series of defeats over its Rwanda asylum plan in the Lords last night, UK inflation and the economic outlook making several splashes. The shock resignation of Ireland’s PM is pictured on a couple of front pages. 

Leo Varadkar, the Irish prime minister, has announced his immediate resignation as party leader and plans to step down as taoiseach once his successor from Fine Gael is appointed.

Portugal set for centre-right minority government The President of Portugal has extended an invitation to centre-right politician Luís Montenegro to establish a minority government. Following…

The Brazilian government has announced the recovery of numerous furniture pieces that were previously reported missing from the official presidential residence when President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva assumed office in January of the previous year.

The Financial Times leads on Rachel Reeves’s pledge to borrow only for investment, echoing fiscal rules set out under the last Labour government. The shadow chancellor said on Tuesday that Labour would follow fiscal rules set by the current Conservative chancellor, Jeremy Hunt. 

Almost all of Wednesday’s tabloids cover the latest from the royal family, as Princess Kate’s medical records were reportedly breached as unauthorised members of staff tried to access her health records. Other royal front page leads report on the grainy video of William and Kate at a farm shop in Windsor, that sparked wild conspiracy theories online. 

Tuesday’s newspaper front pages feature a variety of leads, with pictures of the Princess of Wales out and about a popular splash for the tabloids, and UK politics a hot topic for the broadsheets.