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The Netherlands has announced on Sunday 2 November its decision to return a 3,500-year-old stone bust to Egypt, a significant artifact from the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III.  This announcement was made by Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof during his visit for GEM to Cairo, where he met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. The sculpture, believed to have been stolen and illegally exported during the unrest of the 2011 Arab Spring, was confiscated at a Dutch art fair in…