A gang of thieves stole millions of dollars’ worth of paintings from a museum in a 3-minute heist.
Four masked men entered the villa of the Magnani Rocca Foundation, near Parma in northern Italy, on the night of March 22 and made off with three valuable paintings: “Les Poissons” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Still Life with Cherries” by Paul Cézanne, and “Odalisque on the Terrace” by Henri Matisse.
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A speech by Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference has sparked criticism from activists and commentators across Africa, Europe and Asia, after remarks that referenced centuries of Western expansion and called for renewed alignment between the United States and Europe. In his address, Rubio said Washington and its allies were returning to a path “we have walked together before,” adding that for five centuries before the end of World War II, “the West had been expanding … to cross oceans, settle new continents, [and] build vast empires extending out across the globe.”
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A man has been charged with murder following the death of a Nigerian pensioner who was assaulted in Balham.
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The British High Commission in Nigeria has denied claims that the Briton arrested in connection with arms smuggling was a serving member of the UK Armed Forces.
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Algeria has instructed 12 French officials to leave the country within 48 hours, as stated by the French foreign minister. This action is reportedly related to the arrest of three Algerian nationals in France.
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The Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has cautioned citizens planning to visit Australia to exercise heightened vigilance due to an uptick in reports of harassment and discrimination against foreigners.
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A US senator has called for a government investigation into the impact on national security of garlic imports from China.
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Elon Musk has lost a bid to end an agreement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission involving oversight of tweets about Tesla a day after he acquired the sole ownership of the microblogging site.
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U.K. government ministers have been told that Russian spies stole the formula for the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, which was then used in the development of the Sputnik shot.
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