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Earlier this month the force made 18 arrests and seized 2,000 handsets in what the Met claimed to be the UK's largest-ever operation targeting phone thefts.

The Syrian interior ministry said Monday it seized about 12 million captagon stimulant pills in a raid on a drug smuggling network operating near Damascus.

Hamas gunmen killed his wife and two daughters and also seized his brother, Yossi Sharabi, dragging him to Gaza as well.

Attacks are intended, monitors say, to intimidate Palestinians and eventually drive them from their land so settlers can seize it.

They seized two major artworks — "The Scream" and "Madonna" — in a 50-second operation, before fleeing in front of stunned visitors.