Kashmir's crumbling monuments get restoration boost
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JAMMU, India  - Hundreds of Indian Kashmir's monuments are dilapidated and crumbling, prompting authorities and restoration experts to step up efforts to save the restive Himalayan state's unique cultural heritage.
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The recent conflict between Hezbollah and Israeli forces&#151;now halted by a tentative cease-fire&#151;appears to have left historic sites in the war-torn country unscathed.
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The Taj Mahal, India's famous monument to love, reopens after being closed to tourists for a day after rioting in Agra city.
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NEW DELHI -- After eight months of slow progress toward lasting peace, foreign ministers from India and Pakistan met yesterday to search for solutions to their main dispute, the 57-year-old conflict over the divided territory of Kashmir.
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The United Nations has pledged to investigate vandalism blamed on its peacekeepers in the disputed Western Sahara where cultural treasures including prehistoric rock engravings have been disfigured by graffiti.
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Variety - (Variety) &#151; NEW DELHI -- Kashmiris are flocking to the cinema again after years of being scared off by militant violence.
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A court in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir has slammed authorities for not doing enough to save the region's main tourist attraction, Dal Lake, saying it has become &quot;a slum,&quot; a report said.
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The National Archaeological Museum, Greece's main showcase of ancient antiquity, is reopening with an exhibit of rare murals after repairing damage to the building caused by a 1999 earthquake.
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SRINAGAR, India -- First, Kashmir's movie theaters became military bunkers. Then, the popular sports stadium was converted into housing for the Indian army. Libraries and intellectual salons stopped holding workshops and discussions; Sufi concerts and sitar lessons were canceled. Young people were...
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Both Iraq's National Library and the Iraq Museum are recovering from the war with international help.
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NEW YORK: Leaders of India and Pakistan may not get to the bottom of the Kashmir issue in their first meeting here on Friday, but in an encouraging sign, they are invoking their respective personal roots ahead of the engagement.
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NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan yesterday opened up their countries to group tourism while announcing a series of high-level meetings and visits between officials to push forward the peace process over Kashmir.
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As tourism makes a slow comeback in Indian Kashmir, authorities in the bloodied region are wooing visitors with Christmas and New Year celebrations, the first since a violent separatist revolt began 15 years ago.
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LHASA, China  - In the dusty bowels of the Tibet  capital's huge Potala Palace, a handful of laborers slowly chip  away at ancient plaster holding together the 13-story  building's crumbling foundations.
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PARIS - Three UNESCO World Heritage sites in Lebanon, which include some of the Mideast's most significant ancient ruins, are in urgent need of repair after a month of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, the U.N. agency said Monday.  A team of U.N.
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MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan  - Grief knows no boundaries in divided Kashmir.
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AGRA - As India Monday prepares to launch celebrations marking the 350th anniversary of the Taj Mahal, the countryâs famed monument to love, historians say the festivities are up to a decade too late.