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Last month, Brazilian artist Ilê Sartuzi stole a historic silver coin from London’s British Museum, replacing the coin with a replica and dropping the original into the museum’s donation box. According to The Art Newspaper, who broke the story on Monday (15 July), Sartuzi filmed the theft to create a seven-minute video entitled 'Sleight of Hand' for his MFA thesis exhibition at Goldsmiths, University of London. The brief heist of the 17th-century coin took over a year of planning, and more than one attempt – Sartuzi failed to steal the coin on 17 June, when he was caught by a volunteer guide, ...
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Tein appeared in court in New Caledonia's capital Nouméa, along with ten other people who were arrested on Wednesday in the troubled French Pacific territory. Local media reported that the eleven appeared before the public prosecutor Yves Dupas on Saturday morning. Dupas opened a judicial investigation and ordered Tein to be placed in pre-trial detention in mainland France, which is about 16,800 kilometres away from New Caledonia. Thein is the leader of the Field Action Coordination Cell or CCAT, which is a pro-independence movement, that has called for an end to France ruling over New Caledon...
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An independence leader in New Caledonia has called on supporters to “remain mobilised” across the French Pacific archipelago. Christian Tein, who heads the pro-independence party The Field Action Coordination Unit, called for "resistance" to Paris-imposed electoral reforms, which the indigenous Kanak people fear will further marginalise them. Tein made the comments in a video, posted on social media after he and other pro-independence leaders recently met with French President Emmanuel Macron. Political unrest has flared up in New Caledonia, with protesters erecting make-shift barricades on ro...
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By The Conversation William G. Moseley, Macalester College In the waning hours of the year's biggest climate change conference – COP27 – we learned of a deal to create a loss and damage fund. This is essentially a source of finance to compensate poor countries for the pain they are incurring because of climate change. An often-cited example of such suffering is the ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa region, which has put some 22 million people at risk of severe hunger. While some have heralded this agreement as long overdue climate reparations, others point out that the loss and damage fund...
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New York (AFP) - New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday officially returned three works of art to Nigeria that were looted in the 19th century, as museums make increasing efforts to repatriate some foreign treasures. The two 16th-century brass plaques and a 14th-century brass head from the Kingdom of Benin -- part of modern-day Nigeria -- were taken from the Nigerian Royal Palace during British military occupation in 1897, and moved to the British Museum in London until 1950 when the UK repatriated them. After their return to the National Museum in Lagos, they re-entered the art marke...
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