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/ 13 January 2011
(DRC government troops have been blamed for abuses, including rapes and looting, in of Sud-Kivu to avenge the death of one of their colleagues.
A man arrested for stealing and selling farm equipment has implicated top Zanu-PF officials.
Huge fires swept through major buildings in Bangkok on Wednesday as looting and arson gripped the Thai capital after an army crackdown on protesters.
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/ 18 January 2010
The Red Cross warned on Monday that violence by desperate Haitians is growing, despite the mammoth international earthquake relief operation.
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/ 4 September 2009
Gangs looted stores in Gabon’s second city of Port Gentil on Friday, amid new unrest after Ali Bongo was declared winner of the country’s election.
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/ 11 November 2008
The UN on Tuesday accused government forces of a wave of violence against civilians, including looting and rape, in several towns in eastern DRC.
Cyclone damage to the Irrawaddy Delta, Burma’s rice bowl, has caused a surge in looting in its restive border areas by poorly paid troops worried about food shortages, residents and human rights groups say. In the north-west town of Kalaymo, residents said soldiers had stepped up seizures of rice, fish and firewood.
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/ 20 January 2008
A year on since a shipwreck off the English south coast, locals are still revelling in their wild days of frenzied pillaging. But they are keeping mum on who grabbed the best plunder. The carcass of the MSC Napoli cargo ship is still visible through the sea fog off the coast of Branscombe, a picturesque village on the Devon coastline.
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/ 6 December 2007
Government ministers have changed their minds about referring the forensic report on the affairs of the Land Bank to the police. According to Cabinet spokesperson Themba Maseko, they did so after hearing that a number of board members and senior executives of the bank had challenged statements in the report.
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/ 2 November 2007
An American soldier stationed at Hitler’s Bavarian mountain hideway at the end of World War II looked around for a souvenir. His choice was unveiled in Washington on Thursday: two brown leather-bound albums that could provide new clues to Nazi-looted treasures.