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Van Gogh recovered

CAIRO

Police recovered a painting by Vincent van Gogh at the Cairo airport Saturday, hours after it was stolen from a museum in the Egyptian capital, the country’s culture minister said.

Farouk Hosni said security officers at the airport confiscated the painting from an Italian couple as they were trying to leave the country. The work of art, “Poppy Flowers and “Vase with Flowers,” which Hosni said was valued at $50 million, was stolen earlier Saturday from Cairo’s Mahmoud Khalil Museum.

No further details were immediately available on how the artwork by the Dutch-born post-impressionist was stolen or recovered.

Jean disqualified

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti

Singer Wyclef Jean’s high-profile bid for Haiti’s presidency ended after election officials on the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation disqualified his candidacy.

The Haitian-American hip-hop star expressed disappointment at the Friday ruling but called on his followers to act “peacefully and responsibly.”

Associated Press