'Stop starving Gaza's kids' and 'Starmer's political prisoner'

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The headline on the front page of the Mirror reads: “Stop starving Gaza's kids”
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"Stop starving Gaza's kids" is the demand which leads Saturday's edition of the Mirror, paired with a photograph of a three-year-old boy being treated for malnutrition in Gaza. The paper features an open letter from Holocaust survivors who have "begged Israel to end the horrors of starving Palestinian children", after a famine was confirmed in Gaza City by a UN-backed body. The report was labelled an "outright lie" by Israel, who deny starvation in the territory.

The headline on the front page of the Daily Telegraph reads: “I was Starmer's political prisoner”.
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"I was Starmer's political prisoner" is the main headline on The Telegraph, after the paper secured one of the first interviews with Lucy Connolly since her release from prison earlier this week. Connolly was jailed for stirring up racial hatred in the aftermath of the Southport attack, and spent 380 days behind bars.

The headline on the front page of the Sun reads: “I was PM's political prisoner for a year”.
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Lucy Connolly is also the leading story for the Sun, and the paper says she is considering suing the police after her "jail ordeal".

The headline on the front page of the Daily Mail reads: “Ghislaine: The truth about Duke & Epstein"
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"Ghislaine: The truth about Duke & Epstein" reads the headline on the Daily Mail, after tapes from an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell were released by the US justice department.

The headline on the front page of the i Paper reads: “Voter attitudes to migration toughen - as more asylum hotels targeted”.
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The i Paper says that voter attitudes to migration "are hardening". The paper reports that migration is now second only to the cost of living in terms of the most important issues facing the UK, overtaking the NHS.

The headline on the front page of the Times reads: “Farage will pledge five deportation flights a day”.
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Migration is also the main story for the Times, after Reform UK leader Nigel Farage outlined a £10bn plan to tackle asylum seekers in the UK. He said that the only way to move forward was to detain and deport all migrants who entered the country illegally, and pledged five deportation flights a day. The paper says his "draconian" plan would likely face "extensive legal, political and practical obstacles" should Reform win the next election.

The headline on the front page of the Express reads: “1.6m children stolen by Putin's war machine”.
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"1.6m children stolen by Putin's war machine" says the Express, alleging that hundreds of thousands of children have been placed in re-education programmes that support Russia's military efforts and "erode their national identity". The paper says they are calling for urgent action as the Kremlin "continues to groom youngsters to feed the dictator's war machine". Russia denies wrongdoing and says it has protected vulnerable children by moving them from a war zone for their own safety.

The headline on the front page of the Financial Times reads: “Powell hints at rate cut next month”.
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The Financial Times reports that there could be a US interest rate cut next month, drawing on remarks from Jay Powell at the Federal Reserve's economic summit on Friday. He said that a "softening" jobs market could offset the potential inflation effects of the Trump administration's tariffs, and that this "shifting balance" could "warrant adjusting our policy stance".

The headline on the front page of the Star reads: “Wish you were rear”
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The Daily Star has written a story on swimwear trends, claiming that British people have gone "barmy for thongs".

The Mirror's front page carries a photo of three-year-old Karim Muammer who is in hospital in southern Gaza with malnutrition., external The paper has published an open letter from 12 Holocaust survivors who say they are begging Israel to end the horror of starving Palestinian children after famine was confirmed in Gaza by a body backed by the United Nations. Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, dismissed its report as an "outright lie". But one of the signatories to the letter, Joan Salter, says the situation is a human tragedy and it breaks her heart that Israel is a part of it.

Nigel Farage's plan to deal with asylum seekers should he become prime minister is the lead in the Times, external. The Reform UK leader tells the paper that detaining and deporting all migrants who arrive illegally is "the only way forward". As well as five charter flights leaving each day to facilitate the deportations, Farage says his party would introduce criminal offences for those who tried to return to the UK or who tear up their identity documents.

The Sun, external and the Telegraph, external both carry a photo on their front pages of Lucy Connolly after her release from prison on Thursday. She pleaded guilty to inciting racial hatred online following the Southport stabbings last year - calling for people to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers. In an interview with the Telegraph she said the incident was not her "finest moment" but she still finds it "bizarre" that her actions put her in jail. She tells the paper she was definitely a "political prisoner".

Writing in the Mail, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says Labour-run councils which are encouraging the removal of the flag of St George from town halls or lamp-posts are "fuelling racial division". In her article, external, she says that it should not be controversial to say that we are proud of our flag and that the denigration of anything British in the name of diversity is not "progressive".

The Telegraph lifts the lid on a group of what it calls "pasta grannies" in Italy who have gone on strike after they were targeted by police raids. Known for making orrechiette or "little ear" pasta by hand outside their homes in Bari - in the southern region of Puglia - the paper says police are investigating allegations that some of them have been buying the pasta in, external, and passing it off as homemade.

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