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Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to scrap controversial judicial reforms after violent demonstrations broke out across the country last night. Thousands of protestors marched on Netanyahu’s Jerusalem home and blocked Tel Aviv’s main highway, opposing plans to make it easier for politicians to overrule the Supreme Court’s decisions. Rishi Sunak will ban laughing gas as part of a “war on anti-social behaviour”, says The Daily Telegraph. The “crackdown on crime” will also see police given new powers to move on “nuisance” beggars and create a new offence for criminal gangs organising begging networks. Doctors have restored a blind man’s sight by transplanting part of one eye into the other. Surgeons in Turin inserted tissue from 83-year-old Emiliano Bosca’s left eye into the less-damaged right, which then began to work again. “When I woke from the anaesthetic and realised I could see the outline of my fingers,” he said, “I felt as thought I was being born again.”