Returned

• 26歳の Kurdish Syrian 男性は、「人を殺したくなかった」という理由で YPG 民兵による強制徴兵から逃れたと述べた • 物議を醸している「one in, one out」制度の下で France に送還された難民申請者が、Paris 当局によって安全であるとの判断が下されたことを受け、Syria への送還に直面している。これは同制度で初の事例とみられている。 • イギリス首相 Keir Starmer と France 大統領 Emmanuel Macron が、難民申請者を乗せた小型船による Channel 横断を阻止するための「画期的な」合意を 2025年7月に発表した際（小型船による難民申請者1人を France に強制送還する代わりに、北部 France にいる1人を合法的に UK へ受け入れるもの）、両首脳は France が帰還者にとって安全な国であることを強調していた。 Continue reading...

• FBI によって引き渡された約2,000年前の遺物は、数十年にわたり Rome 近郊の博物館で行方不明になっていたものと一致した • New Orleans の裏庭で発見された約2,000年前のローマ時代の墓標が、このほど Italy に返還された。 • 約1,900年前の大理石の碑文は、水曜日に Rome で行われた FBI 主導の式典で Italy の当局者に正式に引き渡された。同局によると、このイベントは US で回収された別の美術品の返還も記念するものだった。 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...