Italian authorities recovered three artworks by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth millions of euros that were stolen earlier this year from a private museum near the northern city of Parma, police said on Friday.
A statement from the Italian Carabinieri’s art recovery squad said the artworks were discovered during searches ordered by prosecutors, but no details were given. The investigation is ongoing.
Meanwhile, Brazilian police said late on Thursday that they had located eight stolen works by Matisse following an apartment raid outside Sao Paulo. The two law enforcement operations
Luigi Mangione admitted in court on Friday to killing a health insurance executive and pleaded guilty to federal charges of stalking the executive with the intent to kill him.
The guilty plea will avert a federal trial in the closely watched case over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a brazen crime that was condemned by public officials but became emblematic of Americans’ frustration with health insurance industry practices. It could also allow him to seek dismissal of state murder charges and delay an coming trial in that case.
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At a banquet on Friday to mark the statutory body’s 25th anniversary, chairman Chow Chung-kong announced that the URA had returned to profit in the 2025-26 financial year, recording an operating surplus to fund ongoing
Prospective parents face growing uncertainty over whether their plans to secure broader education options for their children remain viable
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Li, a woman in her late twenties from southwestern China, is anxious about her coming interview for a 10-year US visa.
She has big plans for her travels – a weeks-long stay next year that would be her first visit to the country – followed by a planned return trip
No one else was on the helicopter, which was carrying out liming work on the forest
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A helicopter pilot has died after crashing in a forest in eastern Germany while carrying out liming work, the police directorate in the city of Chemnitz said on Friday.
Workers managed to pull the man from the helicopter after the impact, police said. Despite immediate first aid administered at the scene, the man died from
A bomb-disposal team and a unit behind Hong Kong’s light public housing scheme have won this year’s chief executive’s award, praised for embodying civil servants’ professional spirit in “rising to challenges and pursuing excellence”.
City leader John Lee Ka-chiu presented the Chief Executive’s Award for Exemplary Performance to the two interdepartmental teams at a ceremony on Friday.
Lee praised them for fulfilling their duties with a steadfast sense of mission and exceptional competence, winning public trust through tangible results.
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A woman in Hong Kong who owned multiple properties has lost HK$10 million (US$1.3 million) after being scammed by a fraudster posing as a prospective tenant.
The force revealed on Friday that the 64-year-old retiree, whose properties consisted of residential, commercial and parking spaces, was contacted via WhatsApp by a scammer in May in response to a rental listing she posted on Facebook.
Police said that while no tenancy agreement was signed, the con artist struck up a friendship with
Ship-breaking in Bangladesh has long faced global criticism due to its unsafe and environmentally damaging practices
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At least eight workers have died following a toxic gas leak at a ship-breaking yard in the southeastern Bangladeshi district of Chattogram, officials said on Friday.
The incident occurred at the Ferdaus Steel Shipbreaking Yard in Sitakund subdistrict, an area that hosts many ship-breaking yards where old vessels mostly imported from around
The project will place Brazil among a small number of countries capable of developing and operating geostationary satellites
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It will be capable of monitoring the whole of South America, according to the space sciences department at Brazil’s National Institute
Diplomatic offensive seen to signal growing alignment between Beijing and Moscow to isolate Tokyo ahead of key November summit
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They said the coordinated push aimed to target Tokyo over a range of friction points, including Western sanctions on Russia and Japan’s stance on Taiwan.
The Russian president paid a symbolic visit to the Kurils – a volcanic chain