Gold stolen from Rolex, worker held
Luxury Swiss watchmaker Rolex has been robbed of more than 15 kilograms of gold — worth almost 15 million euros — and a foundry worker has been taken into custody, a judicial official said on Thursday.
Rolex, whose status-symbol wristwatches cost several thousand euros/dollars apiece, says the employee, a temp, admitted stealing five kilograms of gold from the plant in Plan-les-Ouates, the official said.
The man’s lawyer Francois Canonica said he has been detained and charged with theft and breach of trust, the ATS news agency reported.
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8 killed in Afghanistan violence
Kabul, June 3: Eight civilians, including four bothers, were killed in a firefight and an explosion in southern Afghanistan, a provincial spokesman said on Thursday.
Four civilians were killed in crossfire between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters in Marjah district in the southern province of Helmand, Daoud Ahmadi, spokesman for the provincial governor, said.
Four others — all brothers — were killed in the detonation of a roadside bomb in Helmand’s Nawzad district, he said. “The brothers were all riding on a motorbike, when the roadside bomb struck them.”
—DPA
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‘Korea war may break out any time’
Geneva, June 3: A North Korean diplomat said on Thursday that tensions on the Korean peninsula were running so high over the sinking of a South Korean warship that “war may break out at any moment.”
In a speech to the International Conference on Disarmament, Ri Jang-Gon, deputy permanent representative for North Korea at the United Nations in Geneva, blamed the “grave situation” on South Korea and the United States.
“The present situation of the Korean peninsula is so grave that a war may break out at any moment,” he said.
However, North Korea needed a “peaceful environment” for its progress, he added. —AFP
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