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U.S. effort for Mideast talks elicits praise, reservations
JERUSALEM — Wrapping up his fourth Holy Land trip in three months, Secretary of State John F. Kerry voiced optimism Thursday that his low-profile campaign to relaunch U.S.-brokered peace talks is making headway. But although the top American...
Tags: West Bank, Palestinian National Authority, John Kerry, Palestine, Government
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Stolen-artifacts case has cost much, yielded little, critics say
When hundreds of federal agents raided four Southern California museums early one January morning in 2008, it set the art world ablaze, suggesting that even amid an international looting scandal, museums had continued to do business with the black...
Tags: Archaeology, Prosecution, Lawyers, Criminals, Theft
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Letters: Hawaii issue sets memories afloat
Mahalo nui loa ("thank you very much") for the Special Hawaii Issue [April 21]. Fabulous memories of several visits to the islands in paradise were made vivid by the stories, pictures and maps of Oahu, Molokai and the cruise with stops at the Big Island,...Tags: Travel, Havana (Cuba), Ernest Hemingway, Trips and Vacations, China
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He's got Armenia under his skin, and we get a guidebook
By some measures, Matthew Karanian was a Connecticut Yankee: a 34-year-old litigator in Hartford, American-born and bred. But he had a wild idea. So he took a summer off, headed for the rustic land of his ancestors, and soon found that Armenia was...
Tags: Travel, Unrest, Conflicts and War, World War I (1914-1918), Armenia, Tourism and Leisure
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Chinese poaching of rare mammal exposed by boating accident
A boating accident off the Philippines coast has exposed Chinese poaching of a protected species of scaly anteater, or pangolin, prized in traditional medicine. A 500-ton Chinese fishing vessel, the Min Long Yu, crashed into a coral reef April 8. When...
Tags: U.S. Navy, Wildlife, Philippines, Malaysia, World Wildlife Fund
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Hopi masks auctioned in Paris amid outrage and legal objections
This post has been corrected. See below for details. The gavel came down on 70 sacred Hopi Indian masks at the Drouot auction house in Paris on Friday, generating $1.2 million for the owners and auctioneers – and anger and emotional cries from...
Tags: Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Mexico, Arts and Culture, Museums, Smithsonian Institution
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Mexico: AeroMexico to fly new route from LAX to La Paz
It will be easier to get from Los Angeles to La Paz, Mexico, after June 20, when AeroMexico launches a new route. The twice-weekly flights will allow passengers to leave LAX at 2:20 p.m. Thursdays and return about noon on Sundays. Or fly south to La Paz...
Tags: Aeromexico, Los Angeles International Airport
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Metropolitan Museum says it will return Cambodian statues
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to return two ancient statues to Cambodia after receiving convincing evidence they had been looted and smuggled out of the country illegally. The 10th century Khmer statues, known as the Kneeling Attendants,...
Tags: National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Sculpture, Arts and Culture, Museums, Arts
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Uruguay: Coastal reveries, away from it all
COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO, Uruguay — Straddling the crest of a sand dune, my back to the Atlantic Ocean, I watched a Uruguayan boy net fish in a river lagoon. He waded through the chest-high water, dragging behind him the reflection of the setting sun....
Tags: Travel, Foods and Beverages, Entertainment, Argentina, Trips and Vacations
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Mexico trying to stop antiquities sale at Sotheby's in Paris
Another antiquities auction has turned into another international art dispute. This time it’s the sale, scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Sotheby’s in Paris, of the Barbier-Mueller Collection of Pre-Columbian art from Mexico and Central...
Tags: Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Sculpture, Mexico, Theft, Museums
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Hong Kong Film Festival: A film that deals with memory (and Macau)
HONG KONG -- There is a moment in “The Last Time I Saw Macau” -- which plays Wednesday at the Hong Kong International Film Festival and is being distributed in the United States this summer by Cinema Guild -- in which the camera captures the...
Tags: Josef von Sternberg, Jane Russell, Festive Events, James Bond (fictional character), Hong Kong
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Your Scene: Cave dwelling in India
Dana Baldwin visited the Ajanta Caves, about 200 miles northeast of Mumbai, during a trip to India in November. The caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, were carved out of a cliff about 2,000 year ago and house early Buddhist artworks, some of which are...
Tags: Caves and Caverns, Canon EOS, Landforms
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