- Associated Press
Spanish police recover fourth of 5 Francis Bacon paintings stolen in Madrid in 2015
Spanish police say they have recovered the fourth of five paintings by Irish-born painter Francis Bacon that were stolen from a Madrid apartment in 2015. A police statement Thursday said the 1989 painting of a man's head, titled on the back as “Study for Portrait of José Capelo," is valued at 5 million euros ($5.4 million.) It was recovered following the arrest in February of two people suspected of having received two of the five works by Bacon. The five paintings stolen were said then to be worth a total of 25 million euros.
- Reuters
Two-thirds in US fear violence could follow election, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Two out of three Americans say they are concerned that political violence could follow the Nov. 5 election rematch between Democratic President Joe Biden and his Republican predecessor Donald Trump, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found. The survey of 3,934 U.S. adults found widespread worries that the U.S. could see a repeat of the unrest that followed Trump's 2020 election defeat, when the then-president's false claim that his loss was the result of fraud prompted thousands of followers to storm the U.S. Capitol. Trump is once again laying the groundwork to contest the results should he lose to Biden a second time.
- The Telegraph
Tory MPs accuse Sunak of committing ‘hari-kari’ with his party
Rishi Sunak has been accused of “committing hari-kari with his party” by Tory MPs who have been left “absolutely seething” at the surprise announcement of a July election.
