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...Christie's, Barkin, 52, will auction off $15 million worth of them (including these diamond earrings). Taking a page from her ex's playbook (he bought a stake in his first company with his first wife's money), the fourth Mrs P. will use the loot to launch a production company...
...marched for days through the bush without food or water, armed with an AK-47 to loot and to kill, Bosco Ojok dared not dream of going home. Just 14 when he was abducted near his northern Ugandan house by the Lord's Resistance Army, he never said a word to anyone about escaping from the rebels' world-renowned campaign of terror, which included cutting off the lips, ears and noses of civilians as they fought the government. If anyone heard, the frightened teen knew, it would mean his swift execution...
They stole the wrong money. last February, in Tonbridge, England, a gang of thugs pulled off an audacious $97 million heist of a cash storage depot. They were good enough to get into the warehouse (requiring military-style reconnaissance and intelligence), and good enough to get out with the loot (requiring serious logistical planning), but they failed when it came to Stage 3 - making the money disappear. In late June, long after the story had fallen off the front pages, four more people were arrested in relation to the case - one of them in Morocco - and another million pounds...
...were asking where the foreign troops were when they needed them. NATO peacekeepers offered support to the Afghan army and police during the riots, but local authorities thought their presence might spark more violence. "There were no American soldiers on the street. They stood back and let the rioters loot. People say the Russians were better because they did more for the people," said Fahor, a 35-year-old shopkeeper in downtown Kabul. If the Americans can't even live up to the low standard set by their cold war enemies during their eight-year occupation of the country, their...
...longer the playground of foreign armies. The country's first real election in 40 years is scheduled to take place this summer, and international troops have arrived to keep the peace. But the suffering of Congo's people continues. Fighting persists in the east, where rebel holdouts loot, rape and murder. The Congolese army, which was meant to be both symbol and protector in the reunited country, has cut its own murderous swath, carrying out executions and razing villages. Even deadlier are the side effects of war, the scars left by years of brutality that disfigure Congo's society...