Metro calls the US seizure of a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic a “splash & grab”. President Donald Trump has “gambled on another confrontation with the world”, it writes, adding that RAF aircraft aided American forces in the mission.
The i Paper understands that the UK is “ready to seize more” of Putin’s “shadow ships” on its own. The possible future missions would be intended to “stop the illegal flow of oil” and would be part of a growing “grey war”. This refers to hostile action that doesn’t meet the threshold of an all-out war.
The US has said it will control Venezuelan crude oil sakes “indefinitely” on the same day that it seized the Russian tanker in the North Atlantic, the FT reports. This marks “an escalation in Donald Trump’s gambit to overhaul the global oil market”.
The Times headlines: “UK joins in the pursuit of Putin’s shadow fleet”. Unnamed sources have told the paper that the UK had been aiding the US in planning the mission after it “slipped through a maritime blockade of Venezuela”. The paper also highlights the “crime spree” committed by Met police officers who were not properly vetted.
The Guardian also leads with the “high-stakes Atlantic operation”, adding that a second vessel is “said to be violating sanctions in Carribbean”.
There is “Kremlin fury” over the UK’s help in the tanker seizure operation, reports the Independent. The vessel was captured between Iceland and Scotland in a “dramatic move that could put Donald Trump on a collision course with Vladimir Putin”, the paper says.
The “Badenoch blueprint to save our pubs” leads the Daily Telegraph, as the Conservative leader pledges to abolish business rates for “thousands of pubs”. The paper also reports on the Met Police vetting story.
“Don’t run down clock on ‘safe’ right to die law” says the Daily Express. Campaigners say that the House of Lords will cause “significant harm” to its reputation if peers don’t pass the assisted dying legislation.
“You need to be on fat jabs for life” writes the Daily Mail following the publication of a University of Oxford study. Most people using the injections will regain the weight they lose “inside two years of stopping treatment”, it reports. Meanwhile there is “shock” as Claudia Winkleman reveals “lovely” secret traitor.
“Look who’s Huw” headlines the Sun as it heralds a new TV drama based on its investigation into former BBC News presenter Huw Edwards. Actor Martin Clunes will play the newsreader, who plead guilty to making indecent images of children in July 2024.
The Daily Mirror calls for “Jesy tests” after the former Little Mix star Jesy Nelson spoke out about her babies’ muscular condition SMA (spinal muscular atrophy). All newborns should be tested for the devastating condition, the paper writes.
“As Trump nabs oil ship” the Daily Star speaks to farmers in Scotland – which it refers to as “the UK’s Greenland”. They tell “golf nut Don” that “you can take our greens but not our land”. So there you go.
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