It was “petty criminals,” not professional criminals, who carried out the spectacular jewel heist at the Louvre. It is a type of crime not usually associated with the top echelons of organized crime, the prosecutor says on French radio, according to The Guardian.
EntertainmentWhen The Beatles were about to split up in the early 1970s, persistent rumors abounded that Paul McCartney was dead. “In many ways, I was dead,” the ex-Beatle writes in a new book.
EntertainmentReopen the investigation into the scandal-plagued Prince Andrew. This is what a former British top prosecutor is demanding, writes The Guardian.
WorldThe United States will not send any ministers or other high-ranking representatives to the COP30 climate summit in Brazil later in November, the White House confirms to The Guardian.
World politicsYoung people in the Maldives will have to quit smoking – forever. Now the archipelago is introducing a tobacco ban for everyone born after January 2007.
WorldThree climate activists who sprayed the prehistoric stone formation Stonehenge with orange paint last year have been acquitted in a British court, writes The Guardian.
WorldCorpses in the streets, patients shot in their hospital beds. Civilians fleeing are being attacked and killed – or held captive with demands for ransom. Brutal abuses are reported after the RSF militia took over al-Fashir in Sudanese Darfur.
WorldThe White House and the US Department of Homeland Security are using memes about the video game "Halo" to recruit young men, according to The Guardian, among others.
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