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Group of British MPs and peers call for Parthenon marbles to return to Greece
Six legislators call for return of cultural treasures held by British Museum ‘to their Athenian home’ Helena Smith The Guardian…
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North Korea Reportedly Ordered Crop Thieves Shot
North Korea, in recent months, has been suffering from notable food shortages and hunger to the point where the famously secretive regime…
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No, a ‘complex’ system is not to blame for corporate wage theft
That’s the spin flowing freely in the wake of Australian supermarket behemoth Woolworths admitting it had underpaid about 5,700 staff…
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Trump’s Syria Pullout Will Destroy the Middle East’s Only Woman-Led Democracy
President Trump’s recent Twitter announcement that the United States will pull out of northeast Syria is a shameless and dangerous…
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Turkey accused of plundering olive oil from Syria to sell in the EU
Α Swiss MP has accused the Turkish government of passing off olive oil plundered from Syria as Turkish in order to…
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Director of Uffizi Galleries in Florence demands that Germany hands back Nazi-looted painting
The director of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence has demanded that Germany return an artwork that was looted by the Nazis during…
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Turkey Wipes Out the Christian Culture of Occupied Cyprus
A sixth-century mosaic of Saint Mark, stolen from a church after Turkey’s military invaded Cyprus in 1974, was recently recovered in…
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How Brexit has revived controversy over the Elgin Marbles in Britain
The Parthenon Sculptures have been the subject of debate for more than 200 years. With Theresa May scurrying around the…
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Turkey’s intel agency trafficked drugs and stolen vehicles to jihadists in Syria
A hushed-up investigation in Turkey’s capital city of Ankara in early 2014 reveals how intelligence officers on the payroll of…
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Fighting the vanilla thieves of Madagascar
A barefoot farmer is making his way through a forest. Quiet drops of rain tumble steadily through the night, picked…
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Point of No Return? Britain and the Elgin Marbles
Britain’s ownership of the Parthenon Sculptures has caused controversy since they were first brought to London in the early 1800s.…
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Illegal trade in antiquities: a scourge that has gone on for millennia too long
Looting of artefacts has always been a sign of military might or economic power. Evangelos Kyriakidis The Conversation Over millennia,…
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Crime stats: Victoria sees another big drop in crime
Police say forensic targeting of known criminals is helping to make some of Melbourne’s offending hot spots safer, as official…
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Yes, we should return the Elgin Marbles—and all the other spoils of colonialism
Returning artefacts to their rightful owners shouldn’t be a controversial argument but somehow, when it comes to British cultural institutions,…
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Jeremy Corbyn would give British Museum’s Elgin Marbles back to Greece
The UK should start “constructive talks with the Greek government on the return of the sculptures”, Mr Corbyn says. SkyNews…
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Royal Commission reveals need for tougher corporate cop
Imagine this … An elderly couple returns home from holiday to discover their front door lock broken and $2000 in…
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