The UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, abruptly cancelled a meeting with his Greek counterpart, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
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It came after the Greek PM said the Parthenon sculptures, removed from Greece by the British diplomat Lord Elgin in the early 19th century, were ‘essentially stolen’ and urged the UK to return them to Greece, in a BBC interview on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. But what are the Parthenon marbles and why have they ignited a diplomatic row between the UK and Greece?
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