Britain helped US firm remove treasure disputed by Spain: report
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The British navy helped a US deep-sea explorer firm remove treasures it discovered at the site of a shipwreck that Madrid suspects was found in Spanish waters, Spanish media reported on Friday.
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Britain and Spain have settled a  long-running dispute over Gibraltar that blocked the European  Union from ratifying some international conventions, including  treaties on aviation and on children, Britain said on Tuesday.
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"The treasure in this case is the wreck itself."  A U.S. underwater archaeology team announced Thursday it has likely discovered the shattered remnants of a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd off a tiny Dominican Republic island.The barnacled cannons and anchors found stacked beneath just 10 feet of crystalline coastal waters off Catalina Island are believed to be the wreckage of the Quedagh Merchant, a ship abandoned by the Scottish privateer in 1699, Indiana University researchers say.'When I first looked down and saw it, I couldn't believe everybody missed it for 300 years,' said Charles Beeker, a scuba-diving archaeologist who teaches at Indiana University. 'I've been on thousands of wrecks and this is one of the first where it's been untouched by looters.' Read more
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U.S.-led forces, using Iraq's ancient  city of Babylon as a military base, have caused "substantial  damage" to one of the world's most renowned archaeological  treasures, a British Museum report said.
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Colombia&#39;s Supreme Court has ruled against US treasure hunters who claimed half of the estimated two billion dollars in gold, silver and emeralds aboard a Spanish galleon sunk in the Caribbean in 1708.
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The United States is wrapping up its investigation of a Macau bank that holds $24 million in North Korean assets, a development that could lead to the release of some of the funds.
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A stolen 15th century map dating to the dawn of modern printing, a decade before Christopher Columbus sailed to America, was returned to Spain on Monday.
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A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday dismissed damage claims filed by Spain against an organization that inspects and certifies ships in connection with one of the world's largest oil spills in the past decade.
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The US government has agreed to settle claims of Holocaust survivors that US Army officers in World War II plundered a trainload of family treasures that had been seized by Nazis, both sides told a judge Monday.
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An American researcher claimed yesterday to have discovered the remains of the legendary lost city of Atlantis on the bottom of the east Mediterranean Sea.
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Britain has received a report from U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs on options for the troubled Northern Rock bank and is talking to potential buyers about them, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday.
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Media tycoon Conrad Black and his allies looted the company he created to manage a global publishing empire of more than 400 million dollars since 1997, a report prepared for US court and regulators showed.
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TAMPA -- The Spanish government has filed claims in federal court over a shipwreck that a Florida firm found laden with Colonial-era treasure, an attorney said yesterday.
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A prominent dealer in antique maps who admitted stealing nearly 100 maps from libraries in the United States and Britain should be severely punished because he looted treasures that told the story of the new world and had survived catastrophic events over the centuries, the British Library said in court papers.
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U.S.-led troops using the ancient Iraqi city of Babylon as a base have damaged and contaminated artifacts dating back thousands of years in one of the world's most important archaeological sites, the British Museum said Saturday.
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Spain and Britain have reached a historic deal to resolve side issues stemming from their 300-year-old dispute over Gibraltar, but sidestepped the main one &#151; their claims to the Rock's sovereignty.
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DIVERS off the Welsh coast may have found the wreck of a ship from the last foreign invasion of mainland Britain, over 200 years ago.