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A cargo plane carrying nearly 30 royal treasures looted from Benin during French colonial rule more than 130 years ago lands at Cotonou airport, the economic capital of the West African state. IMAGES
The French and Beninese Ministers of Culture sign an act of transfer of ownership from France to Benin, allowing 26 colonial-era treasures from the kingdom of Abomey to return to their country after nearly 130 years of absence. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron visits the exhibition "Restitution of 26 works of the royal treasures of Abomey", at the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum. It will be the last time the colonial-era treasures taken from Benin will be shown in France before being handed back in a landmark gesture. IMAGES
Scores of trucks mark two weeks stranded at a roadblock on a main road near Silimin, western Panama, in the third week of protests over a big mining contract. A gunman killed two demonstrators blocking another road near Panama City, according to the police. IMAGES
Camp-Perrin, Aug 20 (EFE).- Four trucks loaded with food aid were looted Friday while en route to earthquake-stricken southwestern Haiti."It it with indignation that we learned that unidentified individuals have plundered four trucks that were going to bring assistance to the affected communities," Food for the Poor, the Florida-based charity that arranged the shipment, said.The trucks were supposed to deliver rations to Abricot, Pestel, Jeremie and Caimite Island, which were among the locations hit hardest by last Saturday's magnitude-7.2 temblor, which left 2,189 people dead and another 12,268 injured, according to the latest figures. (Camera: MARIA MONTECELOS).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE WAIT TO RECEIVE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM RATIONS IN CAMP-PERRIN; RATIONS FROM THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM ARE DISTRIBUTED TO EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS IN CAMP-PERRIN; AND TRUCKS LOADED WITH FOOD AID EN ROUTE TO EARTHQUAKE-STRICKEN AREAS.
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