Rio thieves armed with grenades rob tourists
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Thieves armed with automatic rifles and military-issue grenades robbed a busload of British tourists in Rio de Janeiro before dawn on Sunday, the latest incident in a wave of violent crime plaguing Brazil's seaside tourist mecca.
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Colombian police said on Tuesday they caught three men at a resort near Bogota with explosives and a photograph of a diplomatic vehicle a day after the U.S. Embassy warned its citizens away from the town due to a threat of guerrilla violence.
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Two armed robbers tricked their way into one of the British capital&#39;s most exclusive jewellery stores and stole millions of pounds (euros, dollars) worth of designer gems, British police said Friday.
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Two bombs exploded in two Spanish coastal towns, injuring four people, the latest in a series of attacks apparently by the Basque separatist organization ETA to hit tourist spots in the past two weeks.
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Gunmen killed five people in Rio de Janeiro's poor outskirts in an attack blamed on rival drug gangs, police said Sunday.
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The same leftist rebels that released two long-held hostages three days ago have kidnapped six people from a tourist group at a remote beach on Colombia's Pacific coast, a spokeswoman for the Colombian navy said Monday.
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By Andrei Khalip RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Brazilian authoritiessought ways to make Rio de Janiero tourist spots safer onTuesday amid sharp criticism of police after 24 muggings over aholiday weekend.
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Armed with nothing more than a crow bar and a car jack, it took thieves just three minutes to steal paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari, worth millions of dollars, from Brazil's premier modern art museum.
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Thieves stormed into an Oslo art museum and stole Edvard Munch&#39;s famous paintings &quot;The Scream&#39;&#39; and &quot;Madonna.
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Police in the city of Potenza, in Italy's deep south, yesterday announced that they had smashed a gang of thieves they dubbed the "Banda del Brunello", the "Brunello gang", for their dedication to stealing some ...
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Bands of former soldiers and armed residents looted police arsenals, set bonfires and fired shots into the air amid escalating chaos in this impoverished Caribbean nation.
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Four masked men armed with submachine guns robbed a jewelry store in a chic Paris neighborhood, making off with about &#36;2 million in jewels, police said.
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Armed men stormed into an art museum Sunday, threatened staff at gunpoint and stole Edvard Munch's famous paintings "The Scream" and "Madonna" before the eyes of stunned museum-goers.
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About 40 tourists in northern Colombia were seized by members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -- FARC -- from a holiday spa.
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Norwegian police are hunting for armed robbers who stole one of the world&#39;s most famous paintings, The Scream from an Oslo museum.
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Armed robbers stole "The Scream" and another masterpiece by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch on Sunday in a bold daytime raid on an Oslo museum in front of dozens of terrified tourists.
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Not even Santa Claus is safe as the violent Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro celebrates the Christmas season.