Archive for September, 2011
Texas museum to return Orthodox frescoes to Cyprus
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Houston-based museum exhibiting a set of rare 13th-century frescoes that were looted from Cyprus more than three decades ago has agreed to return them, the leader of the divided island’s Orthodox Christian church said Friday. Archbishop Chrysostomos II said the Menil Collection plans to return the Byzantine frescoes early next year after the church insisted that they not “allow them to remain there even for one second longer.” “I salute this decision by the Menil Collection because embarking on a court battle would honor neither us nor the Collection,” the Archbishop said. Antiquities smugglers looted the frescoes from the Ayios Themomianos church in northern Cyprus following a 1974 Turkish invasion that split the island into a Turkish-speaking north and a Greek-speaking south
California pulls out of 50-state foreclosure talks
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Attorney General Kamala Harris said Friday that she will not agree to a settlement over foreclosure abuses that federal officials and other state attorneys general are negotiating with major U.S. banks.
Officials: Drone likely killed Saudi terrorist
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence indicates that the top al-Qaida bomb-maker in Yemen also died in the drone strike that killed radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, two U.S.
Officials: Drone likely killed Saudi terrorist
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence indicates that the top al-Qaida bomb-maker in Yemen also died in the drone strike that killed radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, two U.S.
Officials: Drone likely killed Saudi terrorist
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence indicates that the top al-Qaida bomb-maker in Yemen also died in the drone strike that killed radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, two U.S. officials said Friday.
While Atlanta mopes, Dream provides ray of hope
ATLANTA (AP) — The Braves blew it. The Falcons are struggling.
