UK police arrest man after Churchill statue sprayed with graffiti

The iconic monument to the wartime British prime minister in Parliament Square "was graffitied with red paint" overnight, the Metropolitan Police said on X. "Officers were on scene within two minutes of being alerted shortly after 4am (0400 GMT)," the force added. The graffiti, which workers set about cleaning off early Friday, included calling the former leader a "zionist war criminal". The words "free Palestine" and "stop the genocide" were also sprayed on it. The Greater London Authority condemned the "vandalism" of the statue...