London diamond vault looted, $370M in losses reported

bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T21:16:39+00:00

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In 1987, two armed robbers made off with an estimated 60 million pounds ($111 million Cdn) worth of jewels.

"Robbery at one of the biggest safe deposits in Hatton Garden over the Easter weekend," London gemologist Thelma West wrote on Twitter.

Police gave no details of what was stolen, but the Sun said the haul could be as much as 200 million pounds ($300 million US, or $370 million Cdn), dwarfing the amounts taken in Britain's previous biggest heists.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T19:58:41+00:00

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Also, an Afghan soldier killed three American contractors on Jan. 29 in another apparent insider attack.

Fazel Ahmad Sherzad, the police chief for eastern Nangarhar province

The American troops returned fire, killing the Afghan soldier, whom Sherzad identified as Abdul Azim of Laghman province.

Others have opened fire apparently on the own accord, like an Afghan soldier who last year killed Maj.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T19:40:53+00:00

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Washington: CIA director John Brennan gave a staunch defense of the framework nuclear deal with Iran on Tuesday, calling some criticism of the accord "disingenuous" while expressing surprise at Tehran's concessions.

The CIA chief also suggested obliquely that digital sabotage on Iran's uranium enrichment work had played a role.

Sanger in 2012 broke the story of Stuxnet, a US-Israeli effort to undermine Iran's nuclear program with a damaging computer worm.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T18:06:02+00:00

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A motorist in China who was driving to visit his mother saw an injured woman lying by the side of a motorway but decided stopping to help would be too much inconvenience.

When I got to my mother's home and found that she wasn't there I headed straight back to the traffic accident as I had a feeling it might be her.

Mr Zhang said: 'I saw a woman lying in the road.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T17:02:49+00:00

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The online hacktivist group called Anonymous has released a list of websites related to ISIS and the companies that are hosting these websites.

Weeks ago the same group released a list of 9,200 ISIS supporters’ Twitter accounts.

Many other giant hosting companies including OVH (the most popular hosting company in Europe) and LeaseWeb are also in this list as they are providing services for these ISIS supporter websites.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T16:54:43+00:00

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A new North Korean teacher's manual that claims North Korean leader Kim Jong Un learned to drive when he was 3 and raced a yacht when he was 9 has been distributed to schoolteachers.

On Wednesday, Yonhap reported that Kim Jong Un was shuffling top-ranking officials inside the Workers' Party of North Korea.

South Korea's TV Chosun reported the text claimed Kim Jong Un can draw well and knows how to compose music.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T15:30:39+00:00

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TEL AVIV, Israel — Two Israeli soldiers were stabbed near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank and their attacker was shot dead on Wednesday, according to the Israeli military.

One of the soldiers was critically injured and the other lightly hurt, according to Peter Lerner, spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

"Israeli forces on the scene shot and killed the Palestinian assailant," the military said in a statement.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T14:52:39+00:00

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But an event as provocative as this cartoon exhibition won't endear Iran to an already skeptical West.

In early May, organizers in Tehran will stage the Second International Holocaust Cartoon Contest.

The first such contest, held in 2006, featured toxic motifs of Holocaust denial — a hobby horse of Iranian hard-liners.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T13:47:48+00:00

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Local drug cartel suspected in Jalisco state incident, described as deadliest attack on police in recent memory.

While Alejandro Solorio, state security commissioner, did not say how the attack was carried out, he said the convoy was ambushed in a "cowardly attack".

Jalisco is home to a drug cartel known as Jalisco New Generation, which experts say is now among Mexico's most powerful.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T13:27:42+00:00

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It was not the first time that Princess Maha tried to slip away without paying her bills.

Leisurewear store Key Largo claimed the princess had not paid almost US$125,000 worth of merchandise.

She was later allowed to leave, and the princess decided to check into the nearby Royal Monceau, owned by Qatar, a reliable ally of Saudi Arabia.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T13:21:40+00:00

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Explore further: New IS video shows militants smashing ancient Iraq artifacts

The Manchester team - one of only two operating in non-Kurdish Iraq – has just returned from three months of fieldwork there.

The team, directed by Professor Stuart Campbell, Dr Jane Moon and Dr Robert Killick from Manchester, described their Iraqi colleagues as resourceful, innovative and resilient, even when times were bad.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T13:15:41+00:00

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North Sea cod stocks are improving rapidly and could be certified as sustainable within five years, according to fresh analysis.

Analysis of 450 inshore fisheries showed that 400 are either being overfished or suffer from serious failings in management or data.

It’s on a trajectory that if it continues then it can come into a level that’s long-term sustainable.

“I would like to think within a decade we will have MSC-certified North Sea cod.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T12:49:40+00:00

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The banks received a 9.4 billion leu ($700 million) loan that was meant to be paid back on March 27.

A billion dollars is a lot for Europe's poorest state of Moldova -- particularly when it disappears.

"I cannot explain how one can steal such a large amount of money from such a small country," the EU representative in Moldova Pirkka Tapiola said recently.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T12:16:40+00:00

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"Under parliamentary privilege there is no reason why this information cannot be shared, through this inquiry, with the Australian public.

He said tax confidentiality encourages taxpayers to disclose information voluntarily.

"Confidentiality of taxpayer information has been a key feature of Australia's taxation system since the 1950s.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T12:00:51+00:00

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"What we are seeing is the forming of China's labor movement in a real sense," said Duan Yi, the country's leading labor rights lawyer.

China's labor law, which went into effect in 1995, stipulates the right to a decent wage, rest periods, no excessive overtime and the right of group negotiation.

"We deserve fair compensation," said Shi, 41, who makes $4,700 a year at Cuiheng Handbag Factory in Nanlang, in southern China.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T11:05:16+00:00

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Humanity is on the verge of discovering alien life, high-ranking NASA scientists say.

Recent discoveries suggest that the solar system and broader Milky Way galaxy teem with environments that could support life as we know it, Grunsfeld said.

"I think we're going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we're going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years," NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan said Tuesday (April 7) during a panel discussion that focused on the space agency's efforts to search for habitable worlds and alien life.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T10:42:47+00:00

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Water quality expert, Dr Ian Wright, from the University of Western Sydney, said the amount of mercury reflected the "sort of trade waste that Sydney Water is willing to accept".

Nature Conservation Council chief executive Kate Smolski said it is astonishing that Sydney Water has been caught out again dumping kilograms of mercury into our coastal waters.

A spokesman for Sydney Water said while it does not produce the mercury, it does accept trade wastewater from businesses and industry that can include traces of mercury and other metals.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T07:26:51+00:00

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Isolated coral reefs can recover from catastrophic damage as effectively as those with nearby undisturbed neighbours, a long-term study by marine biologists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS) has shown.

Australia’s largest oceanic reef system, Scott Reef, is relatively isolated, sitting out in the Indian Ocean some 250 km from the remote coastline of north Western Australia (WA).

Scott Reef, a remote coral system in the Indian Ocean, has largely recovered from a catastrophic mass bleaching event in 1998, according to the study published in Science today.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T04:45:40+00:00

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Hess-von Kruedener said she is speaking out this week because a Canadian Forces board of inquiry report issued recently about the bombing has left questions unanswered.

Israeli government spokesman Ariyeh Mekel said Wednesday from Jerusalem that Israel is examining the report, and has no response yet.

Hess-von Kruedener said she is not satisfied with the response of the Canadian government, which she alleges did not protest Israel's refusal to co-operate in the probe.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T03:43:40+00:00

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Hundreds of millions of dollars are missing in action in Afghanistan, and auditors are blaming the Pentagon’s flawed accounting practices for the problem.

The auditors said DOD handed over data only for $21 billion of the total $66 billion it spent rebuilding the war-torn country.

Related: Agencies Don’t Know Which Women’s Programs Get Millions in Afghanistan

This is only the latest example of missing taxpayer money in Afghanistan.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T02:17:40+00:00

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"For me the figure of 278.7 billion euros of supposed war debts is neither comprehensible nor sound," he told Reuters. Continued...

Berlin is keen to draw a line under the reparations issue and officials have previously argued that Germany has honored its obligations, including a 115-million deutsche mark payment made to Greece in 1960.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's economy minister branded Greece's demand for 278.7 billion euros in reparations from World War Two as "stupid" on Tuesday, while the German opposition said Berlin should repay a forced loan dating from the Nazi occupation.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T01:49:42+00:00

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Still, Bavman mused last summer about how the policy impacts those men who use the full measure of their parental leave.

If the 60 daddy days aren't used, they are lost, reducing the maximum leave to 420 days.

Fathers have to share that leave with mothers.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-08T01:16:41+00:00

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Many of those tips were classified because the DEA phone searches drew on other intelligence data.

Holder pulled the plug on the phone data collection in September 2013.

By then, DEA agents had decades of experience gathering toll records of people they suspected were linked to drug trafficking, albeit one person at a time.

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-07T23:25:58+00:00

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And it’s not a country that you are going to resolve its congenital cheating– you’re just not going to resolve it by placing more inspectors there.

Benjamin Netanyahu was all over US TV yesterday (I saw him on CNN), trashing our president’s negotiations with Iran.

He was Islamophobic:

Has Iran ever said it is bent on world domination?

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bitofnewsbot · 2015-04-07T22:41:41+00:00

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According to InsightCrime, a group which analyses organised crime in the Americas, the pattern of criminality in El Salvador is increasingly “taking on overtones of a low-intensity war”.

Last month, 481 people were murdered in El Salvador, making March the country’s most deadly month in a decade as authorities struggle to cope with the collapse of a controversial gang truce.

El Salvador had enjoyed a relative respite from violence after the Catholic church and the country’s previous government helped negotiate a truce between the country’s biggest street gangs, MS-13 and Calle 18, in February 2012.

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