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Suspects flee with likely haul of B85m in robbery in Tokyo's Ueno
Kyodo News, Published on 30/01/2026
» A group believed to be made up of three suspects robbed a group of five men on a street in Tokyo's Ueno district on Thursday night, taking and fleeing with luggage containing some 420 million yen (85 million baht), investigative sources said.
Eight Matisse engravings stolen from Brazil library
AFP, Published on 08/12/2025
» BRASíLIA - Eight engravings by the French artist Henri Matisse were stolen from a library in Sao Paulo, the Brazilian city's government said Sunday.
Malaysian ex-PM's wife sued over $346m of luxury goods
Bloomberg News, Published on 11/05/2024
» KUALA LUMPUR - 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) is among companies that are suing the wife of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak for allegedly obtaining over US$346 million worth of luxury goods through misappropriated funds.
World's biggest jeweller stops using mined silver, gold
Reuters, Published on 30/01/2024
» LONDON - Pandora, the world's largest jeweller by amount of products sold, has stopped using mined silver and gold and now only manufactures with recycled precious metals, which require less energy to produce.
Like Escobar, Ecuador's drug lords build 'narco-zoos'
AFP, Published on 20/10/2023
» QUITO - A pair of jaguars discovered in a cage on a ranch exposed a cruel new fashion among Ecuador's drug lords. In the style of Colombian cocaine baron Pablo Escobar, they are erecting private, illegal zoos as a status symbol.
Taiwan's antique jade dealers see trade losing lustre
AFP, Published on 18/08/2023
» TAIPEI - Tracing a palm-sized jade pig resting on its haunches, an antique trader in Taiwan said the ears on the nearly 400-year-old piece are a marker of its authenticity.
Ecuador counts the cost of days-long riot as guards freed
AFP, Published on 27/07/2023
» QUITO - Seventeen Ecuador corrections officials held hostage by prison inmates were freed Wednesday, authorities said, as they struggled to compile a death toll from the dismembered body parts left over from days of fighting between rival gangs.
Brazil court moves toward barring Bolsonaro from politics
AFP, Published on 30/06/2023
» BRASíLIA - A Brazilian court on Friday reached the majority it needs to bar far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro from politics for eight years over unfounded claims against the voting system.
Bolsonaro's political future in the balance as judges deliberate
AFP, Published on 30/06/2023
» BRASíLIA - Far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro's political future hangs in the balance as a panel of seven judges weigh barring him from public office for years over attacks on Brazil's electoral system.
Bolsonaro faces ban as Brazil trial opens
AFP, Published on 22/06/2023
» BRASILIA: Ex-president Jair Bolsonaro faces an eight-year ban on running for office as Brazil's top electoral court began trying the far-right leader on Thursday over his unproven allegations against the voting system during last year's elections.