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Champions League Eindh OVER – PSV 1 Arsenal 7 The back page of the Daily Mirror reports on last night’s Champions League game – Arsenal thumped PSV 7-1, pretty much sealing their place in the last 8. The other English club in action last night – Aston Villa – also bagged a win over Club Brugge.

Possessing photos of a Muslim woman without her hijab should be made a criminal offence, MPs say A committee of MPs has proposed that possessing photographs of a Muslim woman without her hijab, taken without her consent, should be classified as a criminal offence. This change seeks to categorize such images as "non-consensual intimate images," comparable to child sexual abuse images in their seriousness. MPs Call for Legal Protections for Muslim Women’s Images The Commons’ women and equalities committee emphasized that images depicting a Muslim woman without her hijab, if taken without consent, should not merely fall under existing definitions…

Kyiv ready to reach US deal The FT leads with news that Ukraine has offered an olive branch to the US after Trump paused military aid to the region following a bust-up at the Oval Office on Friday. The global stock market’s backlash following Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China also makes the front page as exporters lead market losses and Europe worries its next for levies. Canada and China hit back at the US with their own tariffs.

Zelensky bows to pressure as Trump halts US weapons The Independent reports that after Donald Trump twisted the knife by pausing US military aid, Ukraine has been forced to extend an olive branch to repair damage from the White House bust-up. Meghan Markle is pictured on the front page, the paper calls her new show exhausting.

Zelenskyy vows to work with Trump for peace The Guardian leads with Zelenskyy’s proposed peace plan to end the war in Ukraine. The paper quotes him as saying he is “ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible” and willing to work under Trump’s “strong leadership.” The paper calls Meghan Markle’s new show “absurd.”

Clown Vance’s slur on 637 war heroes The Daily Express highlights the backlash, reporting that military veterans have branded Vance a “clown” for his comments. The paper notes that veterans have accused the vice president of dishonoring the 636 British soldiers who gave their lives fighting alongside the US in Iraq and Afghanistan. The paper calls Meghan Markle’s new Netflix show boring, insulting and a waste of time.

Trump sidekick slur The Daily Mirror decries Vance’s comments as an insult to the “heroes of our armed forces,” pointing out the remarks came just as the UK began unveiling plans for its VE Day celebrations. JD Vance has since come out to say he wasn’t talking about Britain or France – though it has raised eyebrows regardless. Elsewhere, footie pundit Jermaine Jenas has split from his wife. It comes after he was caught in a sexting scandal last year.

Zelensky’s olive branch to Trump after PM’s plea The Daily Mail reports that the Ukrainian president is ready to sign a minerals deal with the United States in what the paper describes it as Zelenskyy’s olive branch to Donald Trump. The paper also offers up its review of Meghan Markle’s new show on Netflix. The tabloid is, of course, unimpressed.

Jenas dumped by wife The front page of The Sun reports on football pundit Jermaine Jenas, who has been dumped by his wife after 16 years together. The paper notes the end of his marriage comes after a sexting scandal he was involved in earlier last year. The paper unsurprisingly mocks Meghan Markle’s newest Netflix show – there’s no love lost between Meghan and the tabloids so I can’t imagine she expected rave reviews.

Wednesday’s newspapers continue its coverage of the ongoing fallout between the US and Ukraine and the straining relationship between the US and its allies.

JD Vance is slammed across many of the newspapers due to his comments that Britain is some ‘random country that hasn’t fought in a war in 30 or 40 years’ – despite Britain having fought alongside America in their Middle Eastern oil wars. The tabloids call the American vice president a clown.

Elsewhere, the tabloids pull apart Meghan Markle’s new Netflix show, and there’s coverage of football pundit Jermaine Jenas’s announcement that his marriage has ended, following his cheating scandal.

Most of the back pages report on Arsenal’s 7-1 win over PSV in last night’s Champions League match. Fellow English club Aston Villa also won.