"Updated at: 1225 PST, Friday, November 14, 2008 KARACHI: Eight armed men looted Rs4 million from a commercial bank in Muaripur Road and fled with money after killing a policeman and a security guard on Friday, police officials said.They said eight armed...
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" UPDATES: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made a fresh plea for 3,000 more peacekeepers to be sent to the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In New York, Mr Ban also called for a ceasefire so aid...
"Georgia - Russian troops and paramilitaries rolled into the strategic Georgian city of Gori on Wednesday, apparently violating a truce designed to end the conflict that has uprooted tens of thousands and scarred the Georgian landscape.In Washington, President Bush said the...
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The lost city of the Incas, Machu Picchu, was apparently discovered more than 40 years earlier than previously thought, according to historians. The site is believed to have been ransacked by a German...
Update: The violence gripping Gauteng Province in South Africa appears to be diminishing... however, it's spreading into neighboring KwaZulu-Natal.""There are no new reports of attacks," said Thabo Masebe, deputy...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1489 views | 12 recommendations | 7 comments
A video of two young women looting stores in Belgrade while the Serbian riots are taking place is quickly becoming a hit on YouTube. The YouTube community seems to be very unamused by these two thieves, and they...
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Seventy years after the second World War, there are still attempts to restitution of looted art to their legitimate Owners. In the words of French Minister of Culture and...
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"(CBS) The U.S. Army didn't have any formal plans for the zoo, so they improvised.
"Individual American soldiers [were] absolutely outstanding," Anthony remarked. "These chaps were fighting a war, they had plenty...
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"It started with a casual flip through an art book and is likely to end, 15 years later, in a courtroom with the billionaire philanthropist Leonard Lauder, scion of the Estee Lauder cosmetics empire, battling to keep a painting allegedly looted by the Nazis during the Second...
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So much terrible conflict has been centered for so many centuries in the region where humans first began to develop some of the reasons for war - trade, calculating, writing, money, ideas, powerful...
created by Tom van B | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 697 views | 4 recommendations | 2 comments
"For the third time in less than a year, residents of the Nørrebro neighbourhood spent a night watching a riot erupt outside their homes Saturday.
The dramatic events unfolded after police responded to reports...
created by mtippett | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 954 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
It's both the key to and a tragic flaw of the protest that it depends on the force of the many; when a bunch of passionate people try to get together to make a difference, the mob mentality plus passion can bring...
created by Kaitlin | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 888 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The
Himalayan Times, one of the country’s top English daily, carried out this
survey report in its today’s edition. The state-of-nation survey was carried
out by it’s sister publication Annapurna Post found...
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Governance-2 / Islamist Rule (or any related element)-0
"Kenya has Friday sealed off its border with Somalia following intensified fighting in that country.
Kenyan security agents are on high alert along stretches...