US Returns Almost 300 Artifacts Smuggled Out of India by an Indian criminal with Palki Sharma

Very recommendable! Good news! Certainly a positive and winning gesture! And an agreement was signed to make future returns of cultural artifacts simpler.

Major Judaica collection amassed by Yemenite Jewish butcher donated to the National Library of Israel

Amazing stuff! A butcher collects literature? From Yemen?

At least the Barbarians, aka Houthis, will have no easy chance to destroy this cultural treasure anymore!

"The National Library of Israel has announced the acquisition of 60,000 Yemenite Jewish manuscripts and text fragments which made up one of the most significant private collections of Judaica in the world.  

The massive collection was donated by the descendants of Yehuda Levi Nahum, a butcher who died in 1998 after spending more than 50 years meticulously acquiring and studying the material. It includes Judeo-Yemenite translations of works by the medieval intellectual giant Maimonides, and writings by Yihya Saleh, a leading 18th-century rabbinic law scholar from Yemen, as well as ancient Jewish marriage contracts.  ...

The news is also significant because of the contentious history shared by the National Library and the Yemenite Jewish community. Thousands of books, manuscripts, and cultural artifacts were stolen from the community during and after their voyage and absorption in Israel, in some cases by the government representatives entrusted with shepherding the community from Yemen. Many items ended up at the National Library, which refused in almost every case to return the books to their owners.  ..."

Major Judaica collection amassed by Yemenite Jewish butcher donated to the National Library of Israel - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Four Australian Aboriginal spears taken by James Cook to be repatriated by Cambridge University. Really!

Another elite university doing weird, probably ideology driven things! Where do these repatriations of cultural artifacts end? What and how much should be repatriated?

This appears to be a case of naive altruism! Echoes of the Western myth of the noble savage come to mind.

The article does not exactly explain how Cook has "taken" these 40 spears. Was it by force? Was he first attacked by the aboriginals? Was perhaps even a gift by the aboriginals?

Have aboriginals never taken trophies etc. from defeated other aboriginals? Were these 40 spears perhaps even taken from other aboriginals?

Would these spears have been preserved without Cook? Probably not! Most likely, these 40 spears would have long disappeared.

"The spears were taken by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770 from Kamay (Botany Bay) at the time of the first contact between the crew of the HMB Endeavour and the Aboriginal people of eastern Australia.

Trinity College has agreed to permanently return the four spears to the La Perouse Aboriginal community. The College is now approaching the UK’s Charity Commission to obtain approval for this transfer of legal title.

Cook recorded that 40 spears were taken from the camps of Aboriginal people living at Botany Bay in April 1770. ..."

Australian Aboriginal spears taken by James Cook to be repatriated | University of Cambridge Four Australian Aboriginal spears – cared for by Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology – are to be repatriated after Trinity College agreed to permanently return them to the country.