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...have been reported stolen, TREIMA enables the user to figure out quickly if an artwork under investigation is hot, and who and where it was taken from - even if that user can't tell a Monet from a Munch. When the police come across a suspicious item in a raid or gallery, say, they can search for it in the database using keywords and phrases...
...first terrorist attack of 2008 on a major Pakistani city follows last year's wave of suicide bombings, which killed more than 800 in Pakistan's most violent year since partition in 1947. The bulk of the 2007 attacks came in the wake of an army raid on a pro-Taliban mosque in the capital, Islamabad, which killed nearly 100 militants. Since then, government forces and police have been the main targets of suicide bombers, with the exception of two attacks on rallies held by Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party. The first, on October 18, killed 140; the second...
When I was a kid growing up in Honolulu, Pearl Harbor was a vivid, recurring reminder of Japanese wartime aggression. At 11:45 a.m. on the first working day of every month, a test of the city's air raid sirens would start up and I'd wonder what it must have felt like to hear them whine on Dec. 7, 1941. As a Japanese American, though, my feelings about the attack were always somewhat conflicted...
...latest arrests say a lot about Vietnam's intolerance for dissent, but the circumstances of the raid - the democracy seminars - also illustrate new strategies that Vietnamese groups overseas are adopting to challenge the ruling Communist Party. For a long time, in Little Saigons around the world, anti-communist groups tended to be dominated by former officers of the South Vietnamese regime, pushing to create a government in exile, and had little contact with the people in Vietnam itself. Some groups continued to advocate violence: As late as 2001, members of the California-based Government of Free Vietnam were convicted...
...outlaws are outwitting the sheriff. One night last September, Pahamin and 100 officers descended on a warehouse in Johor Bahru, some 200 miles southeast of Kuala Lumpur, a transit point that had been under surveillance for months. The building was empty, its occupants apparently warned of the raid. "As sophisticated as we are," concedes Pahamin, "the pirates are more sophisticated...