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There are no reliable statistics on stolen art, since few countries have the motivation or the manpower to compile them. But information from Interpol, which collects data from member nations that volunteer it, helps give a sense of the scope of the problem. According to the most recent Interpol statistics, there were 1,785 reports of artwork stolen from places of worship in 2005, mainly in Italy, France and Russia. While that's only half the number reported stolen from private homes, it's a huge tally compared to the 281 robberies from museums and 232 from art galleries...
...south, Portuguese settlers built baroque churches dripping with gold, silver and art. But today, much of that art is gone. "The last time I checked, we had registered 188 works of art stolen - that's since 2000," says Vanessa de Souza, a Brazilian police chief and delegate to Interpol. "We think there are a lot more that haven't been reported to us. Sometimes we see reports of thefts in the newspaper and we haven't been told officially...
...boss, the justice minister. The real reason for the firing, say Mbeki's opponents, was Pikoli's delay in reinstating the corruption charges against Zuma - and his issue, on Sept. 10, of an arrest warrant for Jackie Selebi, the country's top policeman and the current head of Interpol. Selebi, an ANC heavyweight and another key Mbeki ally, has long been under fire for failing to tackle South Africa's raging violent crime. But there was even more heat over his friendship with Glen Agliotti, a man suspected by South African police of being a crime boss...
With the clock ticking, officials are stepping up efforts to close the cases. Interpol appealed this summer to law-enforcement authorities worldwide, urging them to capture ICTR fugitives within their borders. Rwanda maintains it would be best to try all suspects there; the death penalty was formally abolished in July, eliminating a major obstacle in extradition negotiations. And the ICTR has begun shifting jurisdiction over the accused to individual countries, entrusting them to try those fugitives found after the ICTR's deadline. "There will always be a framework in place to ensure these people can be tried. We are confident...
...view is that the U.K.'s antiterrorist effort is in the wrong century.' RONALD NOBLE, Interpol's secretary-general, pictured at left, on the recent British terror plots. Authorities in London neglected to share information from the investigations of three failed car-bomb attacks, and have not made adequate use of a passport database...