Italy Says Will Return Ethiopian Obelisk in April
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An Ethiopian national treasure, the ancient Axum Obelisk that was plundered by Italian fascist invaders in 1937, will be returned by Rome in April, Italy's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
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BP will announce shortly that it is returning to Libya, UK officials say.
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Italy's president dissolved parliament on Wednesday and the caretaker government prepared to call a snap election, likely in mid-April, that could mark a return to power of media magnate Silvio Berlusconi.
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Italian government hopes new deal with Libya will hold back thousands of migrants who try to cross sea
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A statement released Sunday in the name of an al-Qaida-linked group said the Italian government has "dug its grave by its own hands" after it ignored a warning to withdraw its troops from Iraq by Aug. 15.
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Ethiopians organized demonstrations outside the Italian Embassies in London and Washington, DC demanding the return of the Axum Obelisk, a 24-meter high ancient monolith or carved rock , BBC reported on ...
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Celebrations are held in Addis Ababa as Ethiopia ushers in a new Millennium under the ancient Coptic calendar.
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Greece's top religious leader asked Pope Benedict on Thursday to return a piece of the Parthenon in the Vatican Museums, Greek officials said.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles announced it would cede only some of the antiquities that Italy says were looted from its soil.
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An ancient stone coffin and sculpture of a lion's head have been returned to Greece after being handed over by private owners in the United States, the Culture Ministry said Wednesday.
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Italyâs president has cleared the way for early elections this spring, two years after the last parliamentary vote.
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Italian police have recovered an ancient Greek temple dug up in southern Italy by a construction crew who had dumped or looted the prized artifacts and begun to pour cement over the ruins, authorities said Tuesday.
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The award, instituted by the Italian government in 1997 to recognise eminent Italians and foreign nationals residing outside Italy, would be given away by Ambassador Antonio Armellini on October 18.
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With the return of a long-sought masterpiece of antiquity, Italy on Friday trumpeted one of the successes of its campaign to recover what it says are looted treasures from museums and collectors around the world.
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"It would have been the final tombstone for this temple"  Italian police have recovered an ancient Greek temple dug up in southern Italy by a construction crew who had dumped or looted the prized artifacts and begun to pour cement over the ruins, authorities said Tuesday.After receiving information about the discovery during construction work on a tourist resort on the coast of southern Calabria, police used helicopters to locate the site near the town of Crotone, said art squad officials from the Carabinieri paramilitary police.More than 50 artifacts, including columns and mosaics, had been excavated from the site and used to decorate another hotel complex nearby, while other pieces had been placed in a dump to be reused as construction material. Read more
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The basilica in which General Franco is buried will no longer be used to hold political rallies in celebration of Spain's former dictator, according to a new law to be voted on at the end of the month.
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ROME -- Saying it had been blindsided by the decision of the J. Paul Getty Museum to end talks over disputed antiquities, Italy lashed out yesterday at the Los Angeles institution and reiterated demands for the return of artworks.