Rising gold price boosts necklace theft

A NEW trend has hit the streets of Paris: ripping gold chains from their owners' necks. Police said on Wednesday that 270 people had been arrested in the first nine months of the year for muggings aimed at cashing in on the rising price of the...

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White House told of Libyan attack claim

ACCORDING to a government document, two hours after the U.S. Consulate came under attack in Benghazi, Libya, the White House was told that a militant group was claiming responsibility for the violence that killed the U.S. ambassador. A State Department...

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Israel expels 15 Gaza boat activists

ISRAEL has expelled 15 international activists who had tried and failed to reach Gaza by boat at the weekend in a bid to breach the maritime blockade on the territories, a spokeswoman for Israel's immigration service said. "Fifteen foreign activists...

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Google sets out to map Grand Canyon

GOOGLE and its street-view cameras already have taken users to narrow cobblestone alleys in Spain using a tricycle, inside the Smithsonian with a push cart and to British Columbia's snow-covered slopes by snowmobile. The search giant now has brought...

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Gunman opens fire in megachurch

POLICE say one person was critically wounded when a gunman opened fire inside the chapel of a Georgia megachurch just south of Atlanta. Fulton County Police Cpl. Kay Lester says the suspect got away in a vehicle, and was still at large around...

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Arrest in slayings of mum, toddlers

POLICE detained a man in the deaths of a woman and her two toddler children, whose bodies were found in a horrific scene that authorities said has shocked even veteran law enforcement. The man was taken in for questioning around 2 a.m. at a Placer...

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Islamist group rejects Syria truce

ISLAMIST group Al-Nusra Front on Wednesday rejected a truce in Syria proposed by peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi for this week's Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, SITE Intelligence Group reported. "There is no truce between us and this transgressing...

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Car bomb kills six in Damascus: state TV

A CAR bomb explosion in southern Damascus has killed six people and wounded 20 others, state television says, while a watchdog gave a death toll of eight. "The terrorist car bomb blast in Daf al-Shuk killed six people, wounded 20 others and...

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