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• 一名 26 歲的敘利亞庫德族男子表示，他因「不想殺人」而逃離了 YPG 民兵組織的強制徵兵 • 一名根據具爭議性的「一進一出」方案被送回法國的尋求庇護者，在巴黎當局判定其安全無虞後，面臨被遣返回敘利亞的命運，據信這是首例此類案件 • 英國首相 Keir Starmer 與法國總統 Emmanuel Macron 於 2025 年 7 月宣布了這項「開創性」協議，旨在阻止擠滿尋求庇護者的非法小船橫渡英吉利海峽——做法是強力將一名搭乘小船的尋求庇護者遣返回法國，以換取將一名位於法國北部的尋求庇護者合法接引至英國——當時他們強調法國對於被遣返者來說是一個安全的國家

• 由 FBI 移交的近 2,000 年前文物，與羅馬附近一家博物館失蹤數十年的碎片相符 • 一塊在紐奧良後院發現且擁有近 2,000 年歷史的羅馬墓碑，現已歸還義大利。 • 這塊大理石墓誌銘可追溯至大約 1,900 年前，週三在由 FBI 主導的儀式上於羅馬正式移交給義大利官員。

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...