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The United States has returned 77 looted antiquities to Yemen, US authorities said Tuesday, adding the objects would be housed temporarily in a museum in Washington in line with an agreement with the war-torn country s government. In this file photo, A Hand Altar ikegobo - from Nige stanley cup ria, Benin Kingdom, 18-19th century is displayed as part of an exhibition of the new Berlin Palace Humboldt Forum in Berlin. Germany handed back 20 looted artefacts to Nigeria on December 20, 2022, more than 100 years after they were stolen during a ransacking of an ancient kingdom by British colonial forces. AFP The pieces are 64 relief carved stone heads, 11 Quran manuscript pages, a bronze inscribed bowl, and a Funerary Stele from Minaean tribal cultures in northwest Yemen s highlands dating back to the 1st century BCE, Breon Peace, the district attorney for the Eastern District of New York, stanley thermos mug said in a statement. The announcement was made jointly by the prosecutor s office, the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, and the Smithsonian Institution, which includes nearly 20 museums in the United Sta stanley becher tes. New York state s justice department has been carrying out a vast campaign for several years to restore antiquities looted around the world and which have ended up in museums and galleries in the metropolis. Between 2020 and 2021, at least 700 pieces were returned to 14 countries, including Cambodia, Egypt, Greece, India, Iraq, Italy and Pakistan. The 64 carved Ysio Earthquake of 6.1 magnitude shakes Tokyo area; no tsunami danger
U.S. military cyber forces lau stanley thermobecher nched a strike against Iranian military computer systems on Thursday as President Donald Trump backed away from plans for a more conventional military strike in response to Irans downing of a U.S. surveillance drone, U.S. officials said Saturday. President Donald Trump steps off Marine One to the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, June 23, 2019. AP photo Two officials told The Associated Press that the strikes were conducted with approval from Trump. A third official confirmed the broad outlines of the strike. All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the operation. The cyberattacks 鈥?a contingency plan developed over weeks amid escalating tensions 鈥?disabled Iranian computer systems that controlled its rocket and missile launchers, the officials said. Two of the officials said the attacks, which specifically targeted I stanley italia rans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps computer system, were provided as options after Iranian forces blew up two oil tankers earlier this month. The IRGC, which was designated a foreign terrorist group by the Trump administration earlier this year, is a branch of the Iranian military. The ac stanley cup tion by U.S. Cyber Command was a demonstration of the U.S.s increasingly mature cyber military capabilities and its more aggressive cyber strategy under the Trump administration. Over the last year U.S. officials have focused on persistently engaging with adversar |
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