Telegraph.co.uk
| Jan 29, 2013
Shops and businesses in Timbuktu belonging to defeated militant Islamist rebels are being looted as furious locals tell of torture, amputations and floggings for breaking Sharia. One man linked to the Islamists was nearly lynched until he was save...
NTDTV
| Aug 16, 2012
Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo, a Spanish town mayor, became a cult hero for staging robberies at supermarkets and giving stolen groceries to the poor. Now he has set off on a three-week march on Thursday that could embarrass the government and ener...
CNN
| Aug 7, 2012
Dan Rivers reports on bad feelings over the still-unexplained police shooting that led to last summer's London riots.
Channel 4 News
| Jul 23, 2012
UN Chief Ban Ki-moon says he is worried about the threat of chemical weapon use from Syria, while residents say pro-government militia are regrouping and carrying out atrocities against civilians. Alex Thomson reports from inside the Damascus subu...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 19, 2012
UNESCO has voiced alarm over the safety of Timbuktu's cultural heritage, following reports that rebels have over-run and looted centres containing thousands of ancient books and documents that bear testimony to the city's extraordinary history. I...
Democracy Now!
| Sep 7, 2011
In Libya, rebel forces say Col. Muammar Gaddafi's stronghold of Bani Walid is ready to come under the National Transitional Council's authority, despite pockets of resistance. Meanwhile, rebel troops say they have advanced about five miles towards...
ITN News
| Aug 15, 2011
Pauline Pearce, the grandmother who berated rioters in Hackney, says she felt a "strange anger" at the people destroying her community.
Telegraph.co.uk
| Aug 9, 2011
WARNING: Video contains strong language. A video clip showing a woman from Hackney confronting rioters near her home has become an internet sensation. She has since been identified as Pauline Pierce, a jazz singer and community worker.
Telegraph.co.uk
| Aug 11, 2011
A fifth night of rioting was avoided in the UK thanks to a heavy police presence on the streets of major cities, especially the capital London. Courts remained open overnight to accommodate a backlog of hearings for those arrest during the disorde...
ITN News
| Aug 9, 2011
The streets of London have appeared relatively calm on Tuesday night, with residents in Eltham gathering to "protect" their town center.
— Aug 9, 2011 at 05:51 am
...He said the number of riot officers deployed in London since Saturday had been quadrupled but did not specify how many, although they are in the...
— Aug 9, 2011 at 07:13 am
...including these cars being set on fire in Ealing, west London. The trouble initially started on Saturday night in Tottenham in north London afte...
— Feb 10, 2012 at 08:00 am
— Apr 24 at 05:34 pm
...management plans to conserve stocks. The long term implications for food security could be severe because many millions of people in developing ...
— last Tuesday at 12:43 am
...the eyewitness said the perpetrators were “SPLA”, referring to the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, or government forces. “I’m here, I saw it wit...
Looting also referred to as sacking, plundering, despoiling, despoliation, and pillaging—is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe, such as during war, natural disaster, or rioting. The term is also used in a broader sense, to describe egregious instances of theft and embezzlement, such as the "plundering" of private or public assets by corrupt or greedy authorities. Looting is loosely distinguished from scavenging by the objects taken; scavenging implies taking of essential items such as food, water, shelter, or other material needed for survival while looting implies items of luxury or not necessary for survival such as art work, precious metals or other valuables. The proceeds of all these activities can be described as loot, plunder, or pillage.
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