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Pria Kurdish Syrian, 26, mengatakan ia melarikan diri dari wajib militer paksa oleh milisi YPG karena ia ‘tidak ingin membunuh orang’ Seorang pencari suaka yang dikirim kembali ke France di bawah skema kontroversial “one in, one out” menghadapi ancaman dipulangkan ke Syria setelah otoritas di Paris memutuskan bahwa hal itu aman dilakukan, dalam apa yang diyakini sebagai kasus pertama dari jenisnya. Ketika perdana menteri Inggris, Keir Starmer, dan presiden France, Emmanuel Macron, mengumumkan kesepakatan “groundbreaking” pada July 2025 untuk menghentikan perahu-perahu kecil yang dipenuhi pencari suaka melintasi Channel – dengan memulangkan paksa satu pencari suaka perahu kecil ke France sebagai imbalan untuk membawa satu orang di northern France secara legal ke UK – mereka menekankan bahwa France adalah negara yang aman bagi para pemulang. Continue reading...

Artefak berusia hampir 2.000 tahun yang diserahkan oleh FBI cocok dengan kepingan yang hilang dari museum di dekat Rome selama beberapa dekade. Penanda makam Romawi berusia hampir 2.000 tahun yang ditemukan di sebuah halaman belakang rumah di New Orleans kini telah dikembalikan ke Italy. Epitaf marmer tersebut – yang berasal dari sekitar 1.900 tahun yang lalu – secara resmi diserahkan kepada pejabat Italy di Rome pada hari Rabu dalam sebuah upacara yang dipimpin oleh FBI. Acara tersebut juga menandai repatriasi barang antik lainnya yang ditemukan di US, kata agensi tersebut. Continue reading...

Romantic poet’s letters to Fanny Brawne, dated between 1819 and 1820, had been stolen from a Long Island estateEight original handwritten letters from the Romantic poet John Keats to his muse and “one passion”, Fanny Brawne, were returned to the family of John Hay “Jock” Whitney, the former US ambassador to the UK, on Monday after being stolen from Whitney’s home in the 1980s.Keats’ letters, including the first letter he ever wrote to Brawne, are dated between 1819 and 1820. Valued at approximately $2m, the 37 letters are held in a gilt morocco-bound portfolio. Brawne was Keats’s neighbor in Hampstead, with whom he became infatuated and elevated to muse and goddess. Continue reading...

Nine-day search for two-year-old Neukgu gripped nation and sparked safety concerns for animal and publicThe internet in South Korea erupted in celebration as a two-year-old wolf that escaped from a zoo was captured safely after a nine-day search that had gripped the nation and made the animal a national celebrity.The male wolf, named Neukgu, burrowed out of his enclosure at the O-World zoo in Daejeon on 8 April. Animal rights activists questioned whether the wolf could survive outside the zoo and also worried he might be killed during capture, something that happened to a puma that escaped from the same zoo in 2018. Continue reading...

Judge says boy should go back to his community to learn about stories and rituals ‘that can only be taught on country’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn Aboriginal child who was moved 1,700km from his remote Northern Territory community should be returned to ensure he can experience his culture, the family court has found.The boy, known as X in the court proceedings, was born in 2016, when his mother was in prison. She did not take part in the court proceedings, and the man believed to be the boy’s father only took a limited part in the case. Continue reading...