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Stefan Savic laughs off Marcus Thuram’s ‘strange’ decision to grab his privates in Atletico Madrid’s win over Inter Milan Stefan Savic has laughed off Marcus Thuram’s ‘strange’ decision to grab his privates during Atletico Madrid’s Champions League last-16 victory over Inter Milan, insisting it was ‘not so important’. Trailing 1-0 from the first leg, Atleti were up against it after Federico Dimarco further increased the deficit with a cool finish past Jan Oblak in the 33rd minute at the Metropolitano Stadium on Wednesday evening. But Antoine Griezmann immediately hit back with his sixth goal in the competition to give the…

Arsenal star Amanda Ilestedt announces pregnancy Arsenal WFC defender Amanda Ilestedt has announced that she is pregnant with her first child and is set to miss the remainder of the Women’s Super League (WSL) season. The Sweden centre-back and partner Rainer Muller took to social media to announce the news that they are expecting on Wednesday, while Arsenal confirmed that the 31-year-old will not feature for Jonas Eidevall’s side until after she has given birth. Ilestedt joined Arsenal from Paris Saint-Germain last year and has since made 12 WSL appearances for the Gunners, adding one goal. She has not featured…

Writing in The Independent, Diane Abbott said the Tories had ‘long been a source of whipping up racism’ while she had also experienced ‘shocking levels’ of racism within Labour.

Metro reports on the reaction from Ed Sheeran’s management team to news that a group of ticket touts have been convicted of fraud after reselling tens of thousands of concert tickets.

Diane Abbott has accused the Conservatives of aiming to “play the race card” in the upcoming general election.

The Daily Mirror reports on comments by a Conservative minister who said they would accept more party funding from a major donor at the centre of a row involving offensive remarks.

Front page summary Daily Express – Migrant flight plan to Rwanda in a good placeThe Daily Express reports that plans to send deportation flights to Rwanda are in “a good place”. The paper says it has been told the first flight will not happen in the days immediately after the legislation for the policy clears Parliament but that “all the preparations” for the flights are on track.Elsewhere, Grant Shapps attacks Russia’s Putin as he continues to make nuclear threats.  Daily Express – Boris vows to campaign on great Brexit freedoms By WTX NewsMarch 13, 2024 The main stories Like this article?…

The Sun leads on an exclusive saying the hunt for Maddie McCann has a new lead.

The UN has said that a new land route to deliver food to northern Gaza has been used for the first time in three weeks. Six lorries from the World Food Programme crossed via a gate in the Gaza border fence, the Israeli military said. 

UNRWA – the UN agency for Palestinian refugees – has said a member of their staff has been killed and 22 others injured after Israeli forces hit a food distribution centre in Rafah.

Following a collapse at a gold mine in Australia, one man has lost his life while another remains critically injured. The incident occurred when falling rocks struck the pair 500 meters (1,640 feet) underground at the Ballarat site, near Melbourne, on Wednesday afternoon local time.

Geet Wilders, the Dutch populist leader, has abandoned his bid to become prime minister, despite his party’s dramatic victory in the 2023 elections. “I can only become prime minister if ALL parties in the coalition support it. That was not the case,” he wrote on X. 

The Independent leads on the prime minister’s u-turn over comments made by top Tory donor and businessman Frank Hester, who said MP Diane Abbott made him want to hate all black women and that she should be shot.

The Metro says three people have been arrested in raids by fraud officers investigating the collapse of a care home firm that allegedly splashed out on a private jet, two yachts and a stable of supercars.

The Guardian says Downing Street has described alleged remarks made about former Labour MP Diane Abbott by a prominent Conservative Party donor as “racist and wrong”.

The Daily Mirror has spoken to one of the hundreds of people who have contacted police about a funeral directors in Hull – with many of them concerned they may have “buried the wrong loved one or been given the wrong ashes”.

Former prime minister Boris Johnson will hit the campaign trail to protect the “Brexit freedoms he secured with his election victory” in 2019, the Daily Express reports.

Late comedian Paul O’Grady left £15.5m in his will – with £125,000 set aside to look after his five pet dogs, The Sun reports.

Norway gay bar gun attack video shown as trial starts Zaniar Matapour, 44, has pleaded not guilty to terror charges at the start of his trial for the murder of two people in a gun attack on two bars in Oslo.  At the start of the trial, a three-minute police video was shown, showing CCTV footage of how the attack unfolded outside the two bars during Pride celebrations. Passers-by are seen tackling Matapour to the ground. Prosecutors say the court will have to determine whether he was sane at the time. Footage from three closed-circuit cameras followed the movements of…

In a recent development regarding the ongoing South China Sea dispute, China has accused the Philippines of ignoring proposals aimed at managing the conflict. According to an unnamed senior Chinese official speaking to the Manila Times, the proposals were “met with inaction by the Marcos administration”.

Leonid Volkov, a long-time ally of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has been attacked outside his home in Lithuania.  Volkov was attacked with a hammer and tear gas while in his car in Vilnius on Tuesday night. 

The EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has said starvation is being used as a weapon of war in Gaza. He said the lack of aid entering the strip was a “manmade” disaster.

Denmark sued over arms exports to Israel as EU countries withdraw support for Israeli genocide.

Front page summary The Independent – Royals under pressure to release undoctored Mother’s Day portrait The Independent leads on the royal scandal saying the Palace is under pressure to release the original, undoctored image of Princess Kate and her children. It comes after the princess admitted to doctoring the Mother’s Day image she released and apologised. The paper claims that releasing the original is the way to regain the trust of the public. The front page features an image of Prince William arriving at a service yesterday.  The Independent – Scandal of the elderly treated like animals on hospital wardsBy WTX NewsMarch…

Front page summary The Guardian – Biggest Tory donor: looking at Diane Abbott makes you want to hate all black womenThe Guardian says the Conservative Party’s biggest donor told colleagues that looking at former Labour MP Dianne Abbott made you want to “hate all black women” and said she “should be shot”.The paper says Frank Hester, a businessman who runs healthcare technology firm Phoenix Partnership (TPP), made the remarks in 2019 and that they “raise questions about the workplace behaviour and professionalism of a man whose money will be helping to bankroll” the Tories’ election campaign.  In a statement, the firm…