crossorigin="anonymous"> Newspaper headlines: Alien’s ‘legacy will live on’ and Middle East ‘on tenterhooks’ – Subrang Safar: Your Journey Through Colors, Fashion, and Lifestyle
“Justice is done but our hearts are broken,” read the headline on Friday’s Metro front page. The newspaper is referring to the family of 15-year-old Elianne Endum, after her killer was convicted of her murder “in a row over a friend’s teddy bear”. Hassan Sentamo, 18, “caught a ball of tension as the verdict was announced”, it added, “then wiped away tears and refused to sit down as he gripped the dock”.
The Daily Mirror writes that Elaine’s parents have said they are “crippled with pain” following her death, but vowed “her legacy will live on”. It added that they had “pledged to honor his memory by fighting knife crime”.
The Middle East is “in isolation,” says the Financial Times, with a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas “imminent”. [the] The finish line. Prominent is an image of Palestinians scrambling for food aid in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, as “the world awaits Israel’s approval of the deal”. The paper cited BP as cutting “more than 5% of its workforce”. As its “under-fire boss” fights to save costs and “restore a share price that has lagged behind rivals”.
The Guardian warns that there will be no Israeli vote on the ceasefire agreement “until Hamas agrees to all the terms”. The paper states that delay “breeds fear. [that] Last-minute conflicts or hardliners could end the ceasefire before it is due to take effect on Sunday.
According to the Daily Mail on Friday, the government has been pushed to produce a “toothless” investigation. It says Labor has “faced fury” among campaign groups for announcing “five local reviews”, rather than the full national inquiry some are calling for. The newspaper added that the announcement was seen by the government itself.[backtrack] After first insisting that no fresh inquiry was required.”
“Why don’t you want to know the real truth?” In an interview with the Daily Express, how one victim of the grooming gang reacted to the news. Fiona Goddard is among those calling for a “full national inquiry”, and says Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s announcement of a nationwide review on Thursday is “simply not good enough”.
Sticking to politics, and i lead with a warning from military figures that the UK military is “now ‘too small'” to play a major role in peacekeeping in Ukraine, as the Prime Minister took office. He is visiting the country for the first time after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky[confirmed] The newspaper writes that it is in talks with several countries on plans to implement any future ceasefires in the country’s war with Russia.
According to the Times, first-time home buyers will find it “easier to get on the housing ladder”. Financial regulators are considering “loose loan rules,” the paper writes, as part of “mortgage market reform.” An official portrait of Donald Trump is also featured on the front page ahead of his inauguration as president next week. The newspaper said it shared “some dissension” with Trump’s mugshot after he was accused of trying to overturn the election in the US state of Georgia.
The Sun is calling for convicted murderer Jack Fahery to be returned to prison with the headline: “Lock him up again”. Fahri was sentenced to life in prison for the 2009 murder of teenager Jimmy Mizen, and was released on license in 2023. “He apparently faces a return to prison after breaching his licence,” the newspaper said. A newspaper investigation published yesterday claims he recorded rap music referencing the murder.
And Friday’s Daily Star says band Village People hope their hit song YMCA will “save the world”. The song has become an unlikely anthem for US President-elect Donald Trump, and the band hopes their performance at his inauguration will “help heal the world”.
