Mali relics seized in France
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French customs officials seize more than 650 smuggled artefacts, some up to one million years old.
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An Iraqi militant group has kidnapped two  Frenchmen and given the French government 48 hours to end a ban  on Muslim headscarves, Arabic television station Al Jazeera  said Saturday.
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Burned, looted shops dot the commercial capital. European airlines have suspended flights. And only a few ships remain in what was one of West Africa&#39;s busiest ports.
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A fine arts gallery and federal prosecutors have reached an agreement to return a 17th-century carved altar piece to a rural Peruvian village church from where it was allegedly stolen.
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Mauritania on Sunday announced tightened security at tourist sites after a Christmas Eve murder of four French adventure buffs led French operators to suspend holiday packages to the African nation.
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Police detained a French postman behind an Internet operation selling strands of hair and tiny pieces of cloth allegedly taken from the mummy of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II. If authenticated, Egypt wants the hair back.
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French investigators seized portable Soviet-made anti-aircraft missiles found in caches used by ETA, dealing another blow to the armed Basque separatist group whose political leader was arrested over the weekend.
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Two Picasso paintings worth millions of pounds stolen from art gallery in Switzerland, police have revealed
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PARIS, FRANCE.- According to French police, two diamonds worth around $14.1 million dollars, were stolen from an antique dealers' show at the Louvre museum.
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CAIRO, Egypt Aug. 28, 2004 - Islamic militants released a brief tape showing two French journalists kidnapped recently in Iraq, saying they were holding the men to protest a French law banning headscarves
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THIEVES have snatched two diamonds worth a total of 11.5 million euros ($19.8m) from an antique dealers&#39; show in a bold heist at the Louvre museum complex in Paris.
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Thieves snatched two diamonds worth a total of 11.5 million euros (14.1 million dollars) from an antique dealers' show in a bold heist at the Louvre museum complex in Paris, police said.
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French officials have found two Picasso paintings which were stolen from the Paris home of the Spanish painter's granddaughter in February, French daily Le Figaro said on Tuesday, adding the thieves had been arrested.
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A stolen collection of about 100 artifacts dating back more than 7,000 years Â including what appear to be very early human portraits Â were displayed in Greece Tuesday, for the first time since being smuggled to Germany.
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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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BAGHDAD, Aug 29  - For the first time since the kidnappings of foreigners started in Iraq in April, hostage takers have set conditions external to the country by demanding that France lift a ban on Islamic headscarves in state schools.
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An Iraqi militant group has kidnapped two Frenchmen and given the French government 48 hours to end a ban on Muslim headscarves, Arabic television station Al Jazeera said on Saturday.