Gunmen plundered villages and raped every woman they could catch.
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The blocs have mostly plundered the ministries under their control.
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Did the internet have to be designed to be plundered?
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His plays plundered elements from here and there and everywhere.
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Members of the old Communist nomenklatura plundered the nation's resources.
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He then plundered five in a row from the 20103th.
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Ending government corruption outright, or repatriating plundered wealth, is also unlikely.
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Like the subjects of any extractive economy, they have been plundered.
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Ordinary Iranians understand that the ruling clerics have plundered their country.
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He also tortured dissidents, oppressed workers and plundered the public coffers.
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From Williams, it seems, there are treasures to be plundered still.
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Families plundered their savings and retirement accounts to span the gap.
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Over the centuries, invaders captured, plundered and destroyed the palace complex.
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White Europeans slaughtered the Native population and plundered an entire continent.
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The British plundered Rakhine when it was part of imperial India.
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Swift Media is breaking no local laws by selling plundered foreign films.
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A supposedly independent transportation fund was plundered to cover short-term costs.
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Throughout China's history it never colonised, plundered or enslaved any vulnerable nation.
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Mr Zuma's cronies ransacked the state and plundered state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
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It seems the opposing forces provisions have been plundered by their leadership.
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I am surrounded by land and water that is dead, polluted, plundered.
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Many other stores owned by Nigerians were also plundered in the raids.
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The police, who routinely plundered drivers at ubiquitous roadblocks, are off the streets.
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Most see him as a puppet of the politicians who have plundered Iraq.
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During the Punitive Expedition of 1897, British colonists captured and plundered Benin City.
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In all, he and his cronies are thought to have plundered perhaps $10 billion.
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Jobs are handed out by sect and ethnicity, not merit, and ministries are plundered.
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In Egypt alone, an estimated $3 billion dollars worth of artifacts have been plundered.
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"They stole our jobs and they plundered our wealth, but that ended," Trump said.
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On their retreat the Government troops plundered Nindiri village and then retired in confusion.
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Before the British, the Burmese monarchy plundered the kingdom of Arakan, modern-day Rakhine.
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Sherman's soldiers burned homes, plundered farms and picked over fields for the best crops.
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Dutch firm FV SeleQt said its 300-hectare vegetable farm and warehouse had been plundered.
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Grave robbers had plundered skeletons and sacred objects, some of which were stockpiled in museums.
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It was found in a plundered shaft in Sheikh ´Abd el-Qurna, Loprieno-Gnirs said.
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Victorian anatomists plundered burial grounds, for example, and carried off bones to put in museums.
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There is a morality here that each of us must face on our plundered planet.
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The Romans celebrated their military triumphs with parades — all chariots, plundered loot and captured slaves.
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They were descendants of Norsemen who had plundered Normandy and were Germanic, like the Anglo-Saxons.
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Many icons have been plundered in the three decades since communist rule ended in the country.
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For him, culture was a living thing, not a box full of treasures to be plundered.
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Sir Henry Morgan was a 17th-century Welsh pirate who plundered Spanish ships in the Caribbean.
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"Okukor" was one of almost 19253,000 bronzes plundered by British troops during the 1897 Benin Expedition.
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The oligarchs had once brazenly plundered whole states, but Gelambong thought this time would be different.
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Their land had been plundered, its resources extracted to fuel an industrial revolution a continent away.
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Churkin named several other Internet auction sites that he said sold antiquities plundered by Islamic State.
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You sense that an entire genre, far from being revitalized, is being plundered for handy tips.
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Rich countries have plundered and burned huge amounts of fossil fuels and gotten rich from them.
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Rich countries have plundered and burned huge amounts of fossil fuels, and gotten rich from them.
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Star Wars isn't the only sci-fi universe Disney has plundered for its worldwide theme park empire.
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The context was his defense of the idea that the United States should have plundered Iraq's oil.
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Someone hurt his head pretty badly and visitors plundered the stalls in the middle of the storm.
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It simply changes hands and is now pitifully plundered (despite all appearances) than it is truly disillusioned.
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The Europeans plundered as well as rendered, bringing back to Europe some of the treasures they unearthed.
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The more benevolent groups scavenged for resources, while the predatory gangs violently plundered weaker (or unsuspecting) groups.
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The FBI warned last year there was evidence that collectors had been offered artifacts plundered by Islamic State.
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Inside the plundered and scorched sanctuary, he bows his head and begins singing a mezmur, an Aramaic hymn.
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He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
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Madagascar bans using deep sea dive equipment to harvest sea cucumbers in order to protect the plundered species.
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Greek myths, Shakespeare, the great Russian novelists, the Brontes: all have been plundered to supply plots for ballets.
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With the Laemmles and other Jewish competitors gone, Weinmueller's business flourished as he auctioned off their plundered objects.
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Grain rations, we learn, are part of what the Lannister wagons are hauling back from the plundered Reach.
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For the Norwegians, who have also plundered 12 silver and 10 bronze medals, fun and friendship come first.
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Last May, Jawbone brought a suit against Fitbit recruiting employees who plundered confidential information on their way out.
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Ms. Sulitzer said the Nazis pressed him, as an art expert, to authenticate the art they had plundered.
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They contended that the grave site was plundered and the mummified skeleton was stolen, violating the country's laws.
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Before Mr. Suharto's ouster in 1998, the dictator plundered the country's coffers to enrich himself and his family.
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Six works in the collection have been definitively identified as plundered by the Nazis or sold under duress.
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EBay said it was not aware of the allegations that it was being used to sell plundered items.
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Shaking his head, he denied having plundered state coffers or being responsible for war crimes committed by his troops.
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Until recently, the ancient cemetery was an overgrown mess of weeds and rubbish; the more ornate gravestones were plundered.
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As for the various buttons and other pieces, many controllers have been plundered in this pocket-sized device's service.
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Novelists, too, have generally refrained from making this case to aggrieved parties whose lives they have plundered for inspiration.
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Still, Novak seemed confident that the U.S. shale boom's days could end once the easily accessible resources were plundered.
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If hospitals and schools and social services must be plundered in order to accomplish this goal, so be it.
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To fill in, he plundered the Strand bookstore's one-dollar and two-dollar racks, then turned to online sellers.
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No one is in favor of money laundering or helping foreign officials hide money plundered in their home countries.
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Thieves have plundered thousands of dollars' worth of fruit from orchards in New Zealand and distribution centers in Southern California.
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As more and more Jews fled or were murdered, their art collections were bought for a pittance, or simply plundered.
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As our special report in this issue describes, in those nine lost years Mr Zuma's chums systematically plundered the state.
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However, a fired-up France side plundered in 18 goals in the second half to force the match into overtime.
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It recruited both volunteers and conscripts, extorted ordinary citizens, and plundered oil reserves and ancient artifacts to fill its coffers.
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Venezuela is a potentially rich country but its natural wealth is being plundered, leaving a humanitarian crisis in its wake.
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A government commission estimated that members of the Marcos family and their associates plundered about $10 billion from the country.
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Yes, your ancestors plundered and pillaged and mauled their way though Britain and France and Constantinople and Russia and Ukraine.
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Dungeons are both a distortion of a prison and an empty, "savage" territory waiting for to be taken, plundered, colonized.
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The bronze statue is one of 14 artifacts plundered ransacked from the Archaeological Museum in Nalanda, eastern India, in 1961.
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Democrats and Republicans alike supported trade policies that facilitated the rise of plundered fortunes in countries like Russia and China.
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Yes, this is another tragic tale of a resource-rich, underdeveloped country plundered by predatory political leaders and their families.
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Between ancient and modern thieves, they say, up to eight out of every 1753 tombs in China have been plundered.
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The plundered volumes seldom carried the same glamour as the looted paintings, which were often masterpieces worth millions of dollars.
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Faced with mounting pressure from African governments, more European countries are working to return artifacts plundered from Africa during colonial times.
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A fund for retired people and another supposed to help pilgrims save for the haj were plundered to bail out 1MDB.
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And as Trump's inauguration approaches in just under two weeks, booze cupboards across the world are likely to be plundered again.
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Roughly 1.63,000 artifacts were stolen from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, and thousands more were plundered from archaeological sites.
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The Marcos family is believed to have plundered as much as $10 billion, only a portion of which has been recovered.
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Most objects came from lands then under Ottoman control in an era when Western collectors bought (some critics say plundered) artifacts.
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Since the 2015 departure of Frida Giannini, who plundered the archives, Gucci has gone in an interestingly pretty, dreamy, storybook direction.
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Instead of uniting to preserve our fragile planet, we have plundered the very life support system on which our survival depends.
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Otherwise, it risks continuing to mischaracterize and misunderstand a region the West has colonized, plundered, bombed, and exoticized for many generations.
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Thousands of Germans either took part or stood by as at least 91 people were killed and 7,500 businesses were plundered.
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Also, no one declared martial law, jailed all their political enemies, or plundered the banking system for their own personal gain.
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A visit to Peru in 1959 sparked an enduring fascination with archaeology, leading to Mr. Meyer's book "The Plundered Past" (1973).
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And they said the statue had burn damage, which they said could be a sign it had been plundered by pirates.
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With its focus on black cultural contributions across the world, a museum opens amid a heated debate about reclaiming plundered art.
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We will not allow our workers to be victimized, our companies to be cheated, and our wealth to be plundered and transferred.
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Countries like Benin and Ethiopia, among others, have long requested that artifacts that were plundered or looted by European armies be returned.
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During Russia's fat years, many citizens shrugged at officials who plundered the government kitty; there was plenty of money to go around.
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The Eagles torched the Rattlers' flag, and the next day, the Rattlers plundered the Eagles' cabin, flipped over beds and stole clothing.
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Rich countries are plundered, vestiges of democracy are used as window dressing, people lose their rights and eventually their freedom or worse.
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The call comes after the museum, one of London's most popular tourist attractions, put Ethiopian treasures plundered by British forces on display.
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Authorities have struggled for decades to end violence in the east, where militia groups have attacked civilians and plundered vast mineral resources.
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At some point during the couple's 2000,21983-year-long slumber, grave robbers ransacked their burial chamber and plundered its gold and jewels.
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"Many of China's major archaeological discoveries have been made in plundered tombs," said Wang Genfu, an archaeology professor at Nanjing Normal University.
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Otherwise, the company's designs would be pirated by bigger labels, which treated avant-garde street culture as a resource to be plundered.
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After GenOn's creditors complained that NRG had plundered its cash and properties, GenOn hired McKinsey to investigate and settle the creditors' complaints.
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Mr Gaiman, a prolific and prize-winning fantasy writer, has plundered these same stories and characters many times before, notably in "American Gods".
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The private equity firm feels none of the loss, having plundered as much money from the company as possible before the final catastrophe.
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Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio and Scooter Libby; Imelda got her husband, the man who plundered the nation, interred in its most hallowed cemetery.
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In the 19th century, scientists themselves routinely plundered burial grounds, with no thought about getting consent from families or communities for their work.
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He successfully prosecuted a ring of funeral directors, who had plundered body parts and sold them for use in transplants and medical research.
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On home soil in Guangzhou in 2010, China plundered 199 golds and 416 medals in all, an Asian Games record for a single nation.
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In 2006, the poet and editor Shanna Compton uploaded a PDF of "Poems" to her Web site, where it became a much-plundered treasure.
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Tendulkar, the tournament's top scorer, plundered 669 runs — including a century and six half-centuries — to take India to their second World Cup final.
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While Francisco Pizarro, plunderer of Peru, larger than life, looked on from his commensurate horse, I was being plundered in his home town. ♦
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Here Assyrian emperors' palaces once stood, surrounded by Nineveh's fortified walls, which were destroyed by Babylonians and Medes, razed, and the kings' treasures plundered.
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Where would French and European market competitiveness be if companies like Total, Areva, Bouygues, Bolloré, Suez, Eiffage, and others had not plundered African resources?
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For years, the Portuguese hacker behind the platform Football Leaks angered teams, agents and soccer regulators by releasing plundered internal documents and secret agreements.
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Artisans and hardworking laborers had rescued Italy from the wreckage of World War II, constructing a prosperous nation, before wicked elements plundered the bounty.
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The call comes after the museum, one of London's most popular tourist attractions, put Ethiopian treasures plundered by British forces in 1868 on display.
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"We will not allow our workers to be victimized, our companies to be cheated and our wealth to be plundered and transferred," Trump added.
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The moment is long overdue for American museums to acknowledge how and why they have been built on occupied land and filled with plundered objects.
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Most people live on less than $2 a day despite the country's vast energy wealth, much of which has been plundered by a rich elite.
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About 80% of Nepal's religious artifacts are believed to have been stolen and sold abroad, with plundered ancient statues fetching millions on the black market.
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Archaeological sites in Italy have been plundered so extensively that its police force has a corps dedicated to tracking down treasures that are often smuggled abroad.
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An estimated $400 million has been plundered from ICOs, a little more than 10 percent of the $3.7 billion raised during the course of the study.
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"Under the Hammer of the Nazis" recounts Stoll's efforts to right the wrongs of a key figure in the trafficking of Nazi-plundered goods in Bavaria.
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Hales plundered 2275, the highest individual limited-overs score by an England batsman, before Buttler reached his fifty off 242.4 deliveries, another record for his country.
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WASHINGTON — American airstrikes have killed 25,000 Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria and incinerated millions of dollars plundered by the militants, according to Pentagon officials.
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"#Iran's corrupt regime has enriched #IRGC, #Hizballah and #Hamas, and plundered the country's wealth on proxy wars abroad while Iranian families struggle," he said in another.
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Many artworks and other valuables plundered from Eastern Europe were stashed in Silesian castles and mansions during the war and have not been accounted for. video
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In their train, thousands of Jewish slaves shuffled with bowed heads while the heaps of plundered gold and silver bobbed above them, winking in the sun.
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Elsewhere the sense was of a country keen to move on, not just from Mugabe but from the whole "liberation" generation that has plundered the nation.
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China did that, too, but its hackers also plundered foreign businesses, looking for an advantage in negotiation, for blueprints to copy, and for other commercial shortcuts.
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His government is believed to have killed more than 3,000 political opponents, tortured tens of thousands more and plundered up to $10 billion in government funds.
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Many of the children will return to communities whose members despise them for joining a group that butchered and plundered its way through their towns and villages.
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It's the first time the bank itself faces criminal charges for 1MDB, a $6.5 billion fund whose contents were plundered by a disgraced Malaysian financier and others.
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But instead of helping the nation and its 32 million citizens, at least $4.5 billion was plundered from the fund by a disgraced Malaysian financier and others.
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As Americans filed their taxes this spring, they wrestled for the last time with a system that for decades plundered their paychecks and made American businesses uncompetitive.
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Both the plundered objects and people forced from their homes (some now by their own governments) continue to bear the burden of imperial plunder and imperial dispossession.
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"He plundered our state, and left us in a financial disaster," said Yunes at a news conference in Boca del Rio near Veracruz city, celebrating the arrest.
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Their Helsinki meeting came weeks after Saddam Hussein, the Iraq leader who was a friend if not an ally of Moscow, had occupied and plundered neighboring Kuwait.
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The current right-wing government has tapped into those feelings and intensified in recent years its efforts to track plundered treasures and rebuild the nation's historical heritage.
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For years, North Korea's Lazarus Group hackers have plundered and pillaged the global internet, scamming and infecting digital devices around the world for espionage, profit, and sabotage.
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Conrad indicted the European imperialists who plundered Congo in the name of progress even while he portrayed Africa, in terms that seem racist today, as irredeemably backward.
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While the conquistadors of the 16th century plundered Central and South American kingdoms for wealth, more recent outsiders have tended to endow the empires with false simplicity.
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"This is something war-torn countries endure," said Cornelio Melgarejo, the director of a shelter for street children adjacent to the plundered complex in Ciudad del Este.
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Artists Living in Iraq — It's not just artists, but everyone still living in the shattered country, which has been invaded and plundered twice by the United States.
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A large number of wealthy Chinese, Liu among them, have recently come to dominate the market for Asian art—much of which was plundered by the West.
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The revelations were also a visceral blow to the leaders of the big tech companies, who discovered that their customers' data had essentially been plundered at the source.
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In April riches plundered by the British in 1867-68 go on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, despite long-standing calls for their return.
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Instead of helping the nation, at least $4.5 billion was plundered from the fund by a disgraced Malaysian financier with the help of ex-Goldman partner Tim Leissner.
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She has been elected four times to the House of Representatives, despite ongoing controversies over the huge sums of money she and her husband plundered from the country.
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European colonizers, the early adapters of white supremacy, plundered land in Africa and the Americas, using it as an unwilling backdrop to incredible physical, psychological, and spiritual devastation.
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The envoy from Russia, which has repeatedly accused Turkey of supporting Islamic State by purchasing oil from the group, said plundered antiquities were largely smuggled through Turkish territory.
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When we reappeared at a nearby port, we regrouped and sailed right back to the island — where two of our attackers were still stranded, plundered chest in hand.
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Italy's archaeological venues have been plundered so extensively that the country set up a police corps dedicated to tracking down treasures which are dug up and smuggled abroad.
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A government commission estimated that members of the Marcos family and their associates plundered about $10 billion from the country while millions of Filipinos lived in dire poverty.
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Corruption spiked under Jonathan but his supporters reject Buhari's claims that his government had plundered the treasury and accuse Buhari, a former military ruler, of conducting a witch hunt.
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The department has continued to encounter a series of scandals, from police officers planting evidence to a gun task force that conducted false searches and actively plundered city residents.
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From his first book of poetry, "Scenes From Another Life" (1981), to his last, "Plundered Hearts" (2014), Mr. McClatchy's work was esteemed for its elegance, erudition and impeccable technique.
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Bombed and plundered during the Iraqi invasion of 1990, the deserted, unfinished museum lost many of its historic and contemporary artifacts: Mesopotamian sculptures, slippers, coins, earthen pitchers, and such.
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Militants who burned cars or plundered supermarkets were not activists or G20 opponents but rather "despicable violent extremists just like neo-Nazis and Islamist terrorists", the interior minister said.
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NEW DELHI — Over the centuries, the Taj Mahal has endured its share of attacks — plundered by the Jats of northern India and looted by British soldiers, among other indignities.
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Legislation to safeguard international art loans will be taken up by the full Senate after years of criticism and complaints that the bill amounts to protection for plundered works.
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" He also noted that "it would strain credulity to imagine that Levandowski plundered Waymo's vault the way he did with no intent to make use of the downloaded trove.
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For Filipinos to properly move on, Mr. Pangilinan said, the Marcos family should own up to its past sins and return "what they plundered" back to the national treasury.
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The case brought the issue of tainted art in private collections to the fore, raising the specter that thousands of plundered artworks might be lurking in attics and cellars.
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When Bell refused to report to the Steelers' training camp last fall, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that teammates removed his name plate and plundered his locker of shoes.
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The son of Equatorial Guinea's president has gone on trial for corruption in France, accused of buying palatial Parisian properties and exotic cars with money plundered from his native country.
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Sometimes I have to postdate my lack of originality; this can be achieved through my work being plundered and/or plagiarized by others — thereby making it less original in retrospect.
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People were so unused to that type of behavior coming from a woman that they were sort of hanging there with their mouths gaping open while she plundered their treasure.
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But further opportunities to understand early Syrian Christianity are slipping away, as the archaeological sites of Deir ez-Zor are being systematically plundered under the auspices of the Islamic State.
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More than 100 people were also arrested on suspicion of looting in San Pedro Sula on Friday, a police spokesman said, and local media carried footage of shops being plundered.
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Klinz says that freeports can potentially be used to store works of art free of customs duties, and at the same time remove barriers to track stolen and plundered goods.
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Garcia, the 2017 U.S. Masters champion, plundered the demanding course for eight birdies until his lone bogey at the par-four 18th, where he unexpectedly drove into a water hazard.
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After the looting in Benin, Congo, Honduras or Palestine, and elsewhere across the colonized world, the plundered objects were made inaccessible to the people who had created and used them.
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In an Indiana Jones-like twist, the unusually preserved fragment had been plundered from a cave in the Judean Desert by a band of antiquities robbers, the antiquities authority said.
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But by and large, "Mobile Worlds" delivers on its contention that European museums need to do much more than just restitute plundered objects in their collections, important as that is.
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As it expands, 54gene will have to grapple with Africa's long, uncomfortable history of biomedical colonialism, in which foreign entities have plundered the continent for its biological resources without recompense.
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This plundered wealth, accumulated in museums and archives, should be opened to communities dispossessed by its accumulation, and under their guidance and with their participation, photography can be shaped anew.
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The twins and their partner had been brainstorming for over a year, with apparently little urgency, and charged that Zuckerberg had plundered what would otherwise have been a successful idea.
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The relic had been aboard the Santa Margarita, a Spanish galleon that sank in the Florida Straits in 1622 with more than 9,000 ounces of gold plundered from the Americas.
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The task force plundered more than 0003,2000 libraries and archives all over Europe but left behind the sort of detailed records that have proved invaluable in tracing what was stolen.
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About a decade ago, for instance, the museum returned a 2,500-year-old vase known as the Euphronios krater to the Italian government, which suspected that it had been plundered.
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Calling out Facebook for "making a digital clone of our society," Wylie described Facebook as similar to the European giant that centuries ago plundered the resources of its colonial subjects.
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Yet the 2000 presidential election may mark something of a revolt against a semi-aristocratic disdain for the public whose tax euros have long been plundered for private or party use.
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Goldman helped the fund raise $6.5 billion in 2012 and 2013 in three bond deals but now faces charges by the Malaysian government, which claims assets were plundered from the fund.
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Despite his reasonable score, Daly was a distant nine strokes behind leader J.T. Poston, who plundered 11 birdies on the rain-softened Keene Trace layout in a course record-matching 62.
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It turned out to be an unforgiving landscape — threatened by Russia, plundered by oligarchs, plagued by indecisive leaders and overrun by outsiders hoping to make a quick buck off the chaos.
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The group has been expanding its reach despite U.S. military strikes in Iraq and Syria that have killed 22013,2180 ISIS fighters and incinerated millions of dollars of the group's plundered assets.
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When Sirisena won the presidency in 2015, backed by Wickremesinghe's party, he had promised reforms, anti-corruption measures and punishment for those who plundered public funds under the previous Rajapaksa regime.
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Nine sacred artifacts that an explorer plundered from the tribe in the 1800s, including burial masks and a cradle, are finally returning home after being stored at a museum in Germany.
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Koepka plundered seven birdies and an eagle, on the par-five 18th, at Sheshan Golf Club to break clear of Malaysia's Gavin Green and Kiradech Aphibarnrat of Thailand in joint second.
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One recent case involved thieves who parked a station wagon inside an orchard, in a corner of the property that was not regularly visited, before robbers with backpacks plundered the fruit.
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Mr. Azzawi, who helped to assemble collections for various Iraqi museums in the 21991s and 21s, knew that two of the works had been plundered from Baghdad's Museum of Modern Art.
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In its first known appearance, the Koh-i-Noor adorned the famous Peacock Throne of the Mughal emperor in Delhi, but it was plundered by a Persian warlord named Nader Shah.
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In his interpretation of history, the cannons and the monument were plundered during a raid in 1565 and were onboard Spanish ships heading for Cuba when they sunk off the Florida coast.
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The military&aposs economic interests include the alleged involvement of security forces in Zimbabwe&aposs diamond-mining sector, which Mugabe himself once said had been plundered of billions of dollars in revenue.
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Plundered during the Battle of Maqdala, an attack by the British army on the mountain capital, most of the 203 objects in the V&A's exhibition have remained in storage for decades.
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Novanto would be barred from holding public office for five years after serving his sentence and have to repay $7.3 million he had plundered, added the judge, who goes by one name.
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We can even deliver to Vladimir Putin a list of citizens of Ukraine who in the near future will be very uncomfortable in the country they cynically plundered using their high positions.
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He told Motherboard via email that someone stole his Famicom games when he was a teenager, copies of Load Runner and Donkey Kong Jr. plundered while he was at a parttime job.
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The aggression a nation inflicts on others will be visited upon it in turn: "Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you" (Habakkuk 2:8).
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Her personal belongings had been locked away by the housekeeper and she was carrying the new outfit she had been issued with in her plundered suitcase, while Susanna carried the bed linen.
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In November 2018, for example, a report commissioned by the French president recommended that art plundered from sub-Saharan Africa during the colonial era be returned by the French through permanent restitution.
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The show is filled with tobacco ads, books, and labels from around 1888 through 1944 depicting the "exotic" environments stumbled upon and subsequently plundered by Europeans, and the indigenous people who lived there.
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It's not as if the great tragedy hadn't been plundered enough already; earlier "Macbeth" mash-ups include a "Macbett," a "MacBird!" and even a "MacHomer," in which Banquo is reconfigured as Ned Flanders.
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Goldman had helped raise $6.5 billion for the fund in 2012 and 2013 in three bond deals, but now faces charges by the Malaysian government, which claims assets were plundered from the fund.
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Gwadar is in Baluchistan province where separatist groups in have waged a violent campaign for decades, saying the Pakistani state has failed to develop the impoverished region and instead plundered its natural resources.
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Drndić intersperses her fiction with documentary material: photographs and court transcripts, declassified documents on Nazi collaborators who lived with impunity during the Cold War, a tally of items plundered from Jews in Zagreb.
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MUNICH — Years after World War II, American officials here entrusted more than 10,000 confiscated artworks to Bavarian authorities to return to the rightful owners, many of them Jews whose property had been plundered.
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The waters off West Africa are being plundered by industrial vessels from across the world including Russia, China, and ships operating under "flags of convenience" that allow them to skirt costs and regulations.
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For some migrants, the move felt existential, as though what little hope remained had been plundered by a virus that is far more widespread in the United States than in their own countries.
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Rumors similar to the ones in Congo today spread that Ebola was not real, that the elite had invented it to get rich, and that the dead were being plundered for body parts.
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The elderly couple who had amassed the artworks over a lifetime of international travel were stunned to find their collection plundered when they returned from their annual two-month summer vacation in Aspen.
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Separatist groups in Baluchistan, one of Pakistan's poorest provinces, have waged violent campaigns over the past decade, saying the Pakistani state has failed to develop the impoverished region and instead plundered its natural resources.
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How does one reconcile the privilege of being the ruler of the most powerful country in the world with not retaliating against the people who've plundered and colonized the continent that country sits on?
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In 2014, the United States agreed to a settlement following allegations that Obiang used money plundered from his country to amass assets such as a Malibu mansion, a private jet and Michael Jackson memorabilia.
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When it comes to art plundered in Europe during World War II, Ronald S. Lauder, chairman of the Commission for Art Recovery, has been very much the face, and soul, of the restitution movement.
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For years, he plundered internal documents and secret agreements, unmasking questionable practices — and even criminality — by lawyers and players and teams, and then published the information anonymously on a platform he called Football Leaks.
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Odds and Ends: When the dishes are done, I'll catch up on e-mail, help the kids with their homework, and see if any of my bids on Nazi-plundered art have come through.
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So perhaps it's appropriate that audiences for this thickly layered riff on Lewis Carroll's much-plundered Wonderland novel, which opened on Tuesday night, should find their own will to make believe so relentlessly challenged.
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In the age of the Anthropocene, man-made environments progressively encroach on wildlife, but how can humans rethink space as more than just a resource to be plundered or an experience to be consumed?
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Venezuela has vast reserves of oil and gas, but the state oil company has been plundered and put under one of the country's 2,000 generals, who has watched production tumble to 1.1m barrels a day.
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In part voters are simply pleased to see the back of his predecessor (and former brother-in-law) Taib Mahmud, who held power for three decades and on whose watch Sarawak's precious rainforests were plundered.
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Examiner Richard Davis and an army of lawyers investigated claims by creditors that the operating unit was plundered for the benefit of the parent company and Apollo Global Management and TPG Capital, which control Caesars.
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"We hold the U.S. administration responsible for preservation of Iranian funds, and if they are plundered, we will lodge a complaint with the I.C.J. for reparation," he said, referring to the International Court of Justice.
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"Having brazenly plundered the films of Scorsese, Phillips fashions stolen ingredients into something new, so that what began as a gleeful cosplay session turns progressively more dangerous — and somehow more relevant, too," The Guardian wrote.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The son of Equatorial Guinea's president went on trial on Monday in his absence in Paris on charges of using money plundered from his country to buy Parisian luxury properties and exotic cars.
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However — beyond the oft-cited influence of African sculpture on Parisian Cubists and Surrealists — comparatively little attention has been given to the ways that plundered patrimony has shaped the aesthetics and legacies of modern art.
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Instead, they are greeted by jades, porcelains, scrolls, and religious icons created by Ancient and Imperial China that were plundered by Western powers during 19th- and 20th-century imperialist invasions, such as the Opium Wars.
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Many Rakhine also deeply distrust the military and the central government, both of which are dominated by ethnic Burmese: The Rakhine believe they have been neglected and that their state's natural wealth has been plundered.
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But the exhibit, "Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin," shuttered earlier this week because the Met agreed to return the highly ornamented artifact to Egypt after investigators determined it had been recently plundered from that country.
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ROME (Reuters) - The G7 group of rich nations committed on Friday to pursuing the creation of a U.N. peacekeeping force to protect world heritage sites from destruction in conflict and combating the trafficking of plundered treasures.
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This week, the company announced the discovery that four works of art in its corporate art collection were actually plundered by the Nazis from their rightful Jewish owners—a fact that should surprise exactly no one.
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The Iron Age prosthetic was discovered by archaeologists 17 years ago in a plundered tomb that was carved into an older burial chamber known as Sheikh ´Abd el-Qurna, an acropolis just west of Luxor, Egypt.
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They include not only police shootings and brutality but also racial profiling, unnecessary police stops and searches, racially disproportionate arrests, and systems of fines or even outright theft that have plundered the wealth of black residents.
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Armenia should be an important focus for the Trump administration because it has long been a client state of Russia's and dominated by autocrats and elites who plundered the country's resources and preyed on its citizens.
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The rest is rock history, as the blues has been transplanted, revamped, venerated, repeatedly rediscovered and sometimes plundered, with its ideas ricocheting across cultural and geographical divides long before the more recent discussions about cultural appropriation.
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But one buyer is now asking the auction house to return money he paid a decade ago for a painting recently identified as having been plundered by Nazis in 1940 from a Jewish collector in Paris.
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Last October, million of euros of assets belonging to Teodorin were ordered seized by a French court that found him guilty in absentia of using money plundered from his country to buy property and luxury cars.
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One-time national cricket captain Khan won elections in July after spearheading a campaign in the courts and on the streets against Sharif, alleging he and his family plundered the country's exchequer and laundered money abroad.
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The amount of fish caught at sea has been pretty much flat for the past three decades, but the share of the world's fish stocks that are being plundered unsustainably has continued to increase (see chart 603).
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"Bongbong", as Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is known, has been leading most opinion polls ahead of the May 9 election, marking the revival of a name synonymous with martial law, torture and billions of dollars of plundered wealth.
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The late Robert Maxwell is often styled as a "press baron" or "media mogul", though the employees whose pension funds he plundered to shore up his companies would probably choose other, shorter words for their former boss.
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That historical distinction is pretty blurred today, one king's pirate was another's privateer, but the fundamental problem / opportunity was that vulnerable stores of highly concentrated wealth could be plundered while beyond the effective reach of traditional law.
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The sighs and eye rolls among the travelling fans were assuaged late on when, out of nowhere, Olivier Giroud popped up with the equaliser and plundered a rare point for his side at the Theatre of Dreams.
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Mr. Lauder, an heir to the cosmetics fortune of his mother, Estée Lauder, has championed the restitution of art plundered in Europe during World War II and is working to get legislation on the issue through Congress.
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Two years ago the FBI asked art collectors and dealers to be on the lookout for antiquities that the terrorist group could have put on the market as it plundered and destroyed archaeological sites across Syria and Iraq.
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And because there's little in the way of incentives for states to use it for actual cash assistance, or even work programs, it's being plundered for use in barely related pursuits, like administration of the child protection system.
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In the postwar decades, the issue of plundered art was largely forgotten in Switzerland, but it emerged again in the 1990s when a historian revealed that Swiss art dealers were instrumental in the trafficking of stolen Nazi art.
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Grauer's gorilla, the planet's biggest primate which can weigh up to 400 pounds (180 kgs), is found in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where minerals have been plundered for decades under the smokescreen of conflict and instability.
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After the Maxwell scandal of the early 290s, when the newspaper publisher was found to have plundered more than £26m from his pension scheme to shore up his empire, the British government has tried to protect pensioners' interests.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - An international tribunal's ruling that China has caused severe harm to coral reefs and endangered species in the South China Sea will not stop further damage to an already plundered ecoystem, scientists and academics said.
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Rodgers, who has struggled to translate the promise he showed as amateur world number one into professional success over the last three years, plundered eight birdies in a seven-under-par 64 at TPC Deere Run in Silvis.
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In 2016, two years after the election hack in Ukraine, hackers using some of the same techniques plundered the email system of the World Anti-Doping Agency, or WADA, which had accused Russian athletes of systematic drug use.
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Their lives are worth nothing to the Roys, and their stories will never snag more than a few scattered minutes of screen time, but they are the ones being plundered and exploited and discarded by these pampered sociopaths.
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GAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) - Missing fragments from one of Turkey's most striking ancient treasures, the haunting, wide-eyed "Gypsy Girl" mosaic, have returned home more than half a century after they were plundered and smuggled to the United States.
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Job fairs now resemble frantic "Thanksgiving Black Friday sales at Walmart", says Andrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) school of computer science, a pioneering institution in AI (whose robotics department was famously plundered by Uber in 22).
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Recently, I was reminded by former Ukraine Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko, that in fact, with the state treasury plundered so badly, the country was on the verge of default in the weeks after the collapse of the Yanukovych regime.
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After she was arrested, she claimed that she was a victim of political persecution by her successor, President Benigno S. Aquino III, who campaigned on the promise of rooting out corruption and jailing political leaders who plundered government coffers.
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The importance of the report is in its call for the abolition of nation-states' laws that protected the practice of plunder and made justice illegal by proclaiming plundered objects inalienable, so they could never leave French imperial institutions.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq are netting between $150 million and $200 million a year from illicit trade in plundered antiquities, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations said in a letter released on Wednesday.
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His daughter, Leone in 2013 filed a lawsuit in federal court against the university, its foundation and art galleries that said the painting was registered as plundered artwork that entered the United States without the family's knowledge in 1956.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is suing to recover four ancient Syrian artifacts it believes were trafficked by Islamic State, U.S. officials said on Thursday, a tiny fraction of the plundered antiquities likely to have passed through the jihadist group's hands.
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Since synthesising new sequences on demand is now a routine technology, that means the world's gene libraries can be plundered for likely candidates, and the best of these then tweaked mercilessly until something good enough for the job turns up.
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THE ARTS An article on Saturday about legislation that would shield artworks believed to have been plundered from seizure while on loan for exhibitions in the United States referred incorrectly to restitution groups' response to the latest version of the bill.
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ROME (Reuters) - The two leaders of a crime ring that plundered Rome city coffers were convicted along with some 40 politicians, officials and businessmen on Thursday at the end of one of the biggest corruption trials in the Italian capital.
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"A battered journalist, stones thrown at the police and stores that are being plundered, unfortunately, are not unusual occurrences where I live," Mr. Dousa, whose father was a Turkish immigrant to Sweden, wrote in the essay, published in the newspaper Expressen.
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The protesters, many under the age of 30, represent a cross-section of society clamoring for an overhaul of the post-2003 political system, which they say has plundered the state's resources including abundant oil and pushed ordinary people into poverty.
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Now a partnership including German museums, university researchers and the descendants of the publisher, Rudolf Mosse, will search for the plundered works as part of a two-year contract that the Mosse heirs have signed with the Freie Universität Berlin.
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He was, they say, obsessed with the idea of chasing vazaha out of Madagascar, of eliminating the rich Europeans and Indians who were offending the spirits of the ancestors and who for so long had plundered the wealth of the country.
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European colonists were dumbfounded by the biological richness of the Western Hemisphere, as indeed they should have been given the plundered paucity of the Old World since the Neolithic era's advent of agriculture and urbanization and the decimation of native ecosystems.
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While most of the plundered artifacts found their way into museum collections across the world, the dairy product remained well hidden in a canvas fabric deep inside the underground lair, whose location was soon obscured by the shifting desert sands.
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Even when June gets tantalizingly close to escaping, she looks closer at the world around her, sees exactly how much this new world order has plundered, and mourns the loss of her entire world rather than simply her own life.
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Based on this opening sequence, where a precious relic is passed around between the various parties that plundered it, here's a question: Who is the rightful owner of the Cross of Coronado, and where should it be kept today, if it existed?
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Since concerted excavations began in the middle of the 18th century, Pompeii's rich homes, tombs and public buildings have been plundered by looters, exploited by profit-hungry private excavators, and (in some early cases) "restored" so aggressively as to spoil the original treasures.
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Part of a vast collection of art of the House of Bourbon- Parma, the paintings were plundered in 1944 by German troops from a villa in the Tuscan town of Camaiore, where Prince Felix, consort of the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, once lived.
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Klein is deputy director of the authority's robbery prevention unit, which in late 2016 recovered a fragment of text on a piece of papyrus mentioning the word 'Jerusalem' from the 7th century B.C. that had been plundered from a cave by antiquities robbers.
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BENIN CITY, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria could be open to borrowing its plundered Benin Bronzes back from Western museums rather than demanding a full return, officials said, a compromise that might provide a template for settling other bitter disputes over colonial-era loot.
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The case, handled by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, spotlights the risk to historic sites in places controlled by Islamic extremists, who have traded plundered antiquities on the black market or destroyed them in a twisted interpretation of religious law.
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"The idea is that this is a form of justice to expose the works that were plundered, stolen, and vanished," said Anne Sinclair, the art dealer's granddaughter, who is a well-known French television journalist and the editorial director of Le Huffington Post.
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Whether we're talking about muffulettas as thick as a bodybuilder's torso, oyster loaves as briny as the ocean itself, or just some of the best banh mis you can find, New Orleans is a sandwich-lovers paradise just waiting to be plundered.
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A report in the Alaska Dispatch News this week has shone a light on the rise of killer whale "depredation"—that's fishing parlance for when a catch is plundered, in this case by orcas—and how it is affecting the lives of fishermen.
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Not far from Standing Rock, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, sacred land was stolen from the Sioux, plundered for gold and other minerals, and then carved into four monumental presidential heads: an American shrine built from a brazen act of defacement.
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But more infamous were their hosts, the Hatfield family, which "murdered, robbed and plundered everybody that happened to be in their way," then chalked up the victim count on their barroom walls, writes Ira K. Morris, in a 113th-century island history.
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The documents also link Mossack Fonseca to an infamous 1983 gold heist in England, where six thieves tied up security guards, doused them with gasoline, and set them on fire while they plundered a vault containing nearly 7,000 gold bars, diamonds, and cash.
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After the Rosenbergs fled France, the German ambassador had the portrait seized from the house, along with other items, and it wound up in the Jeu de Paume, the Paris museum the Nazis converted into a warehouse for pictures plundered from Jews.
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"So far, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage has not received any restitution claims from the Dutch government regarding works of art plundered during World War II from the Netherlands and located in Polish museums," the ministry said in a statement.
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It extends, symbolically, to the broader human community of the poor, the dispirited, the silenced, the plundered — those whose spirits have been savaged, those who have been stripped of all dignity, those who risk everything or make impossible journeys to better their lives.
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A dark shadow behind this Illiberal International is what commentators tend to describe as a mafia state, which spans from Siberian oil wells and mineral deposits plundered by Putin's entourage to European financial centers in London and Zurich and virtual offshores in Delaware and Nevada.
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It was then that Jacob Zuma began his nine-year reign as president, during which time the thuggish kleptocrat and his cronies ransacked state-owned enterprises (SOEs), plundered local and provincial governments, and ravaged the law-enforcement institutions set up to curb such looting.
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Give way, thou most horrible, give way, thou most wicked, give way to Christ, in whom you found nothing of your works—He Who has plundered you, He Who has destroyed your kingdom, He Who has bound you in defeat and torn apart your weapons.
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A protracted civil war is escalating in the region—a brutal and forgotten conflict that has prompted warnings of genocide from the UN. Militarized poacher units have plundered the park to feed the lucrative, insatiable demand for bushmeat, ivory, animal skin, and traditional medicine.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The son of Equatorial Guinea's president was put on trial in his absence on Monday in France, accused of buying palatial Parisian properties and exotic cars with money plundered from his native country, a small oil-rich state on Africa's west coast.
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These criminal syndicates' origins stretch back half a century to Guatemala's decades-long, genocidal civil war, in which military officers and their elite allies plundered the country to maximize the economic gains of war and establish a framework that would perpetually feed their greed.
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Even when those spaces became lively and populated with people, even when they stopped being an empty place to be conquered and plundered, the mechanics and construction inherited from the dungeon lingered on, persisting into the hobbyist community that kept IF alive through the 90s.
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It's been a little more than a year since Prince left us for the afterlife, and only now is his bottomless vault of unreleased songs being plundered by labels eager to capitalize on what have to be dozens of possible albums worth of material.
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Draped from the ceiling and walls, the canvases are covered with mirrors and tiny bronze sculptures, symbols of exchange from the colonial empire — mirrors were commodities traded by white men for human slaves and African art, and bronze sculptures were plundered by white men.
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While it is impossible to confirm this estimate or the details of the hacks on cryptocurrency exchanges, the size of the reported loss emphasizes the degree to which the North Koreans have plundered smaller and more private financial institutions, almost entirely out of view.
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A straight driver, excellent iron player and superb putter, perhaps the only ingredient Todd lacks is length off the tee, an important factor as courses get stretched longer in an effort to guard against being plundered by the likes of Brooks Koepka and Rory McIlroy.
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These decisions made by an American president and all world leaders that allow the planet to be plundered rather than preserved are devastating everywhere -- this week, to Lewis, and a huge number of other creatures that are less visible and less cute, but no less valuable.
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On the next page, a golden meteor plummets toward Earth, is lodged deep underground during the Paleozoic era, erupts in a dinosaur-scattering earthquake, and then across various ancient civilizations is alternately worshiped, sculpted, erected, celebrated, crushed, sold, neglected, discovered, plundered and lost to the bottom of the sea.
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A seminal event in his life was the sack of Antwerp by the Spanish troops in 1576, when his family fortune was largely plundered, after which he spent the following years under the patronage of princes and emperors, his peregrinations motivated by avoiding persecution for his Calvinist faith.
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At conferences on the restitution of art looted during the Holocaust, an adviser to the State Department, Stuart E. Eizenstat, has identified Poland as one of several countries that have failed to live up to the 1998 Washington Principles, which set requirements for international cooperation in returning plundered art.
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Originally the plan was to make all the files public, but Allahyari realized that they would only be available to onlookers in the West and not for their original, intended audience, eerily echoing how Western museums have historically displayed artifacts from around the world that were stolen or plundered during colonialism.
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The eight-months-long research process has stirred up some anxiety throughout the country since the French president Emmanuel Macron formally requested it in March, complying with his bold promise (made last year during a speech given in Burkina Faso) of returning plundered African heritage to their countries of origin.
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One of the pieces on show here with the "orange" designation has added a new character to the list of Jewish collectors whose works may have been plundered by the Nazis: Max Strauss, proven to be the owner of Otto Dix's "Bouquet", which the Zeppelin Museum has in its collection.
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Sadly, it was a bit of a disappointment: Besides the fact that so many plundered artifacts from the continent are still being held in museums in Europe, the museum was also using the low season as a chance to rotate out its galleries, and the two main exhibition rooms were closed.
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The Nigerian Air Force's mistaken bombing of the Rann encampment, which houses about 20,000 people near the Cameroon border, was one of the deadliest blunders in the country's protracted struggle to vanquish Boko Haram, an Islamic extremist group that has plundered and marauded through parts of northern Nigeria for years.
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But both films revolve around the same question: What if you predicated your life on God's existence, and then God turned out to be silent, crowded out by bodily discomfort, broken relationships, plundered dreams, and external forces more interested in their own power than the unsettling implications of Jesus's teachings?
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But for many small business people — including photographers like my organization's members, graphic artists, illustrators, authors and songwriters — holding onto to that spirt of entrepreneurship has proven increasingly difficult as their creative works are plundered by those who use them without permission and compensation — an increasingly easy task in our digital world.
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But within months of the Chinese blanket ban in April 2019 on fentanyl and all its derivatives, chemists in Chinese labs plundered medical literature and drug patents and produced this new, legal series of drugs that are just as powerful as fentanyl: a family of drugs called benzimidazoles, of which isotonitazene is one.
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But there is a more useful historical example when we consider M.B.S.: In the 1960s, King Saud bin Abdulaziz became an embarrassment to the royal family as he plundered wealth, plotted to assassinate Arab leaders such as Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, and later waved the flag of anti-imperialism and Arab nationalism.
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While historians cannot say with certainty how large the site of the Isthmian Games had been at its height, when it featured an imposing shrine to the god Poseidon (plundered and destroyed by the fifth century A.D.), it would have extended far beyond the few hundred meters first cleared there by archaeologists in the 1950s.
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"He had a family, and everybody in it had their place and their part," said Michel Gaubert, a sound designer who for three decades created the soundtracks for Mr. Lagerfeld's opulent Chanel shows, for which the designer plundered the corporate coffers to transform the Grand Palais into a supermarket, a cruise ship or a beach.
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These transactions — which have not been previously reported — drew the attention of federal law enforcement officials as far back as 2012, when they began to examine wire transfers to determine if Manafort hid money from tax authorities or helped the Ukrainian regime close to Russian President Vladimir Putin launder some of the millions it plundered through corrupt dealings.
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It makes you consider all the other plundered marvels of human history — the decline and fall of the Library of Alexandria; ISIL's ongoing siege on heritage; the Parthenon of Athens, which has been smashed by mortars and pillaged by colonizers in the past 200 years, leaving you shaking your head as you walk back down the Acropolis.
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Dating from about 1750 B.C., the stele was plundered and taken back to Susa in the mid-12th century B.C. It consists of 282 laws, including ones governing trade, slavery, theft, interest rates, the presumption of innocence and the principle of "eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," with graded punishments determined by the violator's social status.
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What's striking about the new dad joke books is how similar they are to once-essential, long-forgotten gag books from the middle of the last century, the kind written by prolific quip collectors like Robert Orben, whose work was plundered by entire generations of comics as disparate as Joan Rivers, Steve Martin and Dick Gregory.
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In November, Gizmodo reported that WikiLeaks had provided Hammond and his AntiSec hacking crew with access to a custom search engine tool in early 2012 in an effort to aid the hackers in rifling through a batch of more than 5 million emails, which AntiSec had plundered from the servers of a private intelligence firm the month before.
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In February 2018, Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, announced an exhibition of Ethiopian artefacts plundered during the Battle of Magdala in 1868 to highlight the issue of restitution in the wider context of historical colonialism, also floating the idea of long-term loaning the items to their original homeland as something approaching a possible solution.
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