Newspaper review: King's new portrait and US warnings to Georgia

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A protester wearing a Georgian and European flag faces off policemen blocking a street in Tbilisi, Georgia

A new portrait of King Charles unveiled on Tuesday features on the front of many front page newspapers.

In other news, the Daily Telegraph leads with a call from Policing Minister Chris Philp for forces to increase their use of stop-and-search to tackle knife crime, external.

The Daily Mail is one of several papers to report government plans to ban all sex education, external for under-nines. It says the Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, will unveil the proposals tomorrow.

The Guardian's front page includes a report on Georgia being warned by the US not to become an adversary of the west by falling back in line with Moscow, external, as its parliament defied mass street protests to pass a “Kremlin-inspired” law.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and the Work and Pensions minister Mel Stride have written an article in the Times in which they argue unemployed people have "ample opportunity", external to find a job, with no good reason to "languish on benefits".

Elsewhere, the Metro says a record three million food parcels have been handed, external to desperate UK families. Quoting figures from the Trussell Trust food bank it says the number has doubled in five years.

A prediction net migration figures could fall sharply, external is the lead for the Daily Express.

Finally, the i newspaper reports on what it says is a weight-loss jab "gold rush" for pharmaceutical companies, external.

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