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Riot police at Greece's largest port cordoned off an area around an Israeli cruise ship that arrived early Thursday to prevent several hundred protesters from approaching the vessel. Protests have been held at Greek islands and mainland ports along the route of the Crown Iris, several of which have led to clashes with police. At the port of Piraeus, near Athens, on Thursday demonstrators held flares and waved Palestinian flags behind a cordon formed with riot police buses. Protest organizers, citing online posts from travelers, said off-duty Israeli soldiers were among the passengers. 'They are unwanted here and have no business being here,' protest organizer Markos Bekris said. 'The blood of innocent people is on their hands, and we should not welcome them.' Greece is a popular holiday destination for Israelis. But the ongoing war in Gaza — and global attention on the widespread destruction and severe food shortages — has triggered hundreds of anti-Israel protests in Athens and other Greek cities, as well as a political confrontation. Left-wing opposition parties are calling on the conservative government to halt commercial and broad military cooperation with Israel.
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Robert Jenrick claims migrants threw bottles at him during France camp visit
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FBI returns stolen document signed by conquistador to Mexico
The FBI has returned a 500-year-old stolen document signed by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés to manuscript page was penned in 1527 and is one of 15 pages thought to have been swiped from Mexico's national archives between 1985 and 1993, the US investigatory agency said. The page - which describes payments made for supplies for expeditions - was discovered in the US and repatriated on was an explorer who brought about the end of the Aztec empire and helped pave the way for the Spanish colonisation of the Americas. The manuscript details plans for his journey across what would become New Spain. At its height, the colony stretched across much of western and central North America, and into Latin previously missing document was written after Cortés had been made the governor of New Spain by the Spanish national archives had counted the document among a collection of papers signed by Cortés - but found 15 pages were missing when it was put on microfilm in recovered page bore a number written in wax that archivists had applied in 1985-1986, suggesting it had been stolen between the two cataloguing periods. The Mexican government requested the assistance of the FBI's art crime team in finding the missing documents in 2024, providing notes on which pages had been taken and how certain pages had been FBI said open-source research revealed the document was located in the agency did not reveal exactly where the manuscript page was found or who had owned it when it was one will face prosecution over the theft as the page had "changed hands several times" since it was stolen, according to Special Agent Jessica Dittmer of the FBI's art crime document "really gives a lot of flavour as to the planning and preparation for uncharted territory back then", she said, outlining "the payment of pesos of common gold for expenses in preparation for discovery of the spice lands".The so-called "spice lands" were areas of eastern and southern Asia. Europeans sought to find a quicker trade route with these areas by sailing west, but in doing so landed on the Americas would go on to explore north-western Mexico and the Baja California document's repatriation comes at a time of political tension between Mexico and the US over tariffs imposed by the Trump administration and illegal migration across the US-Mexico the FBI says that, as one of the largest consumers of antiquities, the US had a responsibility to counter the trafficking of Dittmer said: "Pieces like this are considered protected cultural property and represent valuable moments in Mexico's history, so this is something that the Mexicans have in their archives for the purpose of understanding history better."The FBI said it was determined to locate and repatriate the other pages still missing from the document signed by Cortés was returned to Mexico by the FBI in 2023.
