Video: Polished Diamonds Hide Illicit Origins
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Find out what some suppliers are doing to stem the global flow of "blood diamonds"&#8212;gems mined and sold illegally to fuel deadly rebel conflicts.
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Two diamonds together worth over 11 million euros (&#36;13.53 million) disappeared from an antique dealers' show at the Paris Louvre museum on Monday in an apparent mid-afternoon robbery.
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Reports from France say thieves have stolen two diamonds worth around $14.1m in Paris.
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Thieves have stolen two diamonds worth about $14.1 million from a trade fair at one of Paris&#39; top museums. The gems were taken from a display case at an antique and jewelry dealers show at the Louvre Museum complex.
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ORANGE, Calif. - A $25,000 diamond was found stuck in a shower drain at the prison housing the man accused of stealing it two years ago. Bret Allen Langford, 39, allegedly asked the owner of a Jewelry Express store to show him a 2-carat colorless diamond in April 2005.
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Women, beware: Those "eye in the sky" surveillance cameras used by casinos don't just look for card cheats and crooked dealers. Sometimes, they look for low-cut blouses.
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Keen to curb any fallout following  the release of a film this week about conflict diamonds, the  State Department said on Tuesday the illegal trade of war zone  gems had been sharply cut in recent years.
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The bright green rocks jutting through the prairie soil were hard to miss, but Tom Charlton still couldn't believe his eyes. It was kimberlite, the molten rock in which diamonds are found, and preliminary tests had yielded a microscopic diamond.
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Two thieves showed up at a London jeweler in a flashy car and made off with an even flashier haul, stealing about $20 million worth of diamonds and gems, the jeweler said Wednesday.
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ORANGE, Calif. - A $25,000 diamond was found stuck in a shower drain at the prison housing the man accused of stealing it two years ago.  Bret Allen Langford, 39, allegedly asked the owner of a Jewelry Express store to show him a 2-carat colorless diamond in April 2005.
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A South African mining firm claims to have found the world's biggest-ever diamond, but experts are sceptical.
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JERUSALEM: A forgery ring that spanned the globe and produced a treasure trove of fake Bible-era artefacts was cracked yesterday. Police said the ring forged what were presented as perhaps the
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At least that&#039;s what a group of gem industry bigwigs are   complaining about in the run-up to Leonardo DiCaprio&#039;s upcoming Warner   Bros. drama The Blood Diamond, in which he plays a diamond   smuggler who matches wits with a ruthless African diamond syndicate.
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Fashion Wire Daily - In Leonardo DiCaprio's intense new movie "Blood Diamond," which premiered Wednesday night, December 6, at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, the message is clear. African diamonds that have come into the worldwide consumer pipeline via "conflict" - in this case, a brutal civil war in Sierra Leone circa 1999 - are covered in human blood, and should not be purchased by anyone with a conscience.
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An alleged international paedophile ring is uncovered by British police.
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The mystery baffled archaeologists for more than two decades. What happened to 22,000 pieces of gold &#151; jewel-encrusted crowns, daggers and baubles from an ancient burial mound &#151; that had apparently vanished from Afghanistan in the 1980s?
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Diamonds are forever. And for restitution, too. Martin Frankel, the Greenwich, Conn., financier who swindled millions from insurance companies, converted his ill-gotten gains into diamonds before fleeing the country in 1999.