Newspaper headlines: Hopes of rate cuts 'suffer blow' and Dubai deluged

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The headline in the Times reads: "Hopes of rate cuts suffer blow".
The headline in the Financial Times reads: "IMF debt warning raises doubts over Sunak's bid to axe national insurance".
The headline in the Express reads: "Lords defy will of the people over Rwanda bill... again!"
The headline in the Mail reads: "Tories trail Labour on defence, tax, migration... even Brexit".
The headline in the Guardian reads: "Brexit blamed as UK drug shortages 'put lives at risk'".
The headline in the Telegraph reads: "Rayner faces new homes tax questions".
The headline in the i reads: "Israel will defy plea for restraint and strike Iran, Cameron reveals".
The headline in the Metro reads: "Deluged in Dubai".
An elderly man has died and thousands of British travellers have been stranded in Dubai after the heaviest rainfall in the city for 75 years, according to the Metro. The front page includes a photo showing hundreds of cars backed up on a highway that has been completely submerged by water. [BBC]
The headlien in the Mirror reads: "Shannon kidnapper dead".
The Daily Mirror leads with the death of Michael Donovan, the man behind a fake kidnap plot involving West Yorkshire girl Shannon Matthews. Donovan and Shannon's mother Karen Matthews staged the nine-year-old's disappearance in February 2008 in a scheme to claim a £50,000 reward. The paper says Donovan died of cancer aged 56. [BBC]
The headline in the Sun reads: "American idle Harry".
Prince Harry has officially registered himself as a US resident, according to the Sun. The paper says the prince called the US his "new country" in records filed at Companies House and that the move suggests he has "cut all ties with Britain". [BBC]
The headline in the Star reads: "Escaped big cats DO walk among us".
And the Daily Star reports that Ben Mee, whose story of buying Dartmoor Zoo became the basis for a film starring Matt Damon, has claimed that escaped cats, including pumas, are roaming the UK. "Big cats do walk among us," reads the headline. [BBC]
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