Previously...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=france
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=paris
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=youths
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=vandals
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blog:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=28469_French_Calm_As_Cars_Burn&only
http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAL0138249720080101
“Cars torched over ‘calm’ French New Year”
Tue Jan 1, 2008 6:51am EST
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “PARIS (Reuters) - Vandals torched 372 cars as France celebrated the New Year, down on the figure last year after a night the police described as “relatively calm.”
Cars are burned fairly regularly in France and the image of vehicles in flames in poor suburbs became symbolic of riots in 2005 when angry youths set fire to thousands of cars.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “At the height of the 2005 riots as many as 1,400 cars were attacked in overnight violence. In protests over President Nicolas Sarkozy election last May, demonstrators set fire to 730 vehicles.”
Africanized honeybees, often called "killer bees" for their aggressive attacks, have been discovered for the first time in Rapides Parish, the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry confirmed Thursday.
Gang jailed for largest ever passport forgery
Snippets:
The four men, all from eastern Europe, ran what was effectively a fake document factory from a two-bedroom flat in Barnet, north London.
When police raided the property, officers found a wardrobe containing more than 1,800 completed counterfeit passports - the largest ever single haul of fake passports made by the Metropolitan Police.
Kosovan Dennis Cennoli, 25, and Altin Ibrahimi, a 31-year-old Albanian, were both jailed for five years. Two Bulgarians - Krum Poibrenski, 31, and Kiril Velev, 29 - were jailed for a total of six years.
5 members of violent prison gang arrested on RICO charges
Five members of the violent Barrio Azteca gang have been arrested on a federal indictment alleging 11 RICO counts, the U.S. Attorney's Office in El Paso announced Thursday.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Margaret Leachman said the five reputed gang members — Danny Tarin, 28; Jose Martin Garcia, 38; Said Francisco Herrera, 28; John Michelletti, 37; and Eugene Mona, 50 — are accused of racketeering, murder, extortion, money laundering and trafficking in marijuana, cocaine and heroin, among other offenses.