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Armed robbers stole hundreds of thousands of euros’ worth of luxury goods from a De Beers jewellery store in an upscale district of the French capital before fleeing on motorcycles, Paris police said on Thursday. The robbery took place around 11.15am in the 2nd arrondissement, police said. A De Beers Group spokesperson confirmed the robbery at the company’s De Beers store on Rue de la Paix, near Place Vendôme, a hub of luxury jewellers. The spokesperson said there were “no serious injuries”,...

Personal information of 820,000 members of Hong Kong’s largest department store chain, Sogo, may have been exposed in a data breach, the city’s privacy watchdog has revealed. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data disclosed the figures on Thursday, hours after Sogo announced it had alerted authorities a week earlier to abnormal data access within its membership system. Preliminary findings indicate that compromised records may include members’ names, email addresses, phone...

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Five people were shot early Thursday in a trendy Washington, D.C., neighbourhood within walking distance of the White House, said police, who were responding to multiple locations. The shooter had not been caught, and the locations of the shootings were unclear, police department spokesperson Nicole Deaner said. The shootings were reported in Logan Circle, about a mile (1.6km) north of the White House. No other details are immediately available, including the exact location of the shooting,...