Last week in Paris, four or five masked men entered a Harry Winston store and committed one of the largest jewelry thefts ever.
A brazen and meticulously planned robbery of the Harry Winston store in central Paris last weekend netted the unknown thieves about €20 million, or $28.4 million, in gems, one of the largest jewelry [...]

From the AFP:
Rights campaigners Global Witness called Tuesday for Venezuela to be excluded from the international diamond market, accusing it of undermining the fight against trade in so-called blood diamonds.
The group called on the European Commission to expel Venezuela for “flagrant non-compliance” with the Kimberley Process (KP), the regulatory system designed to prevent trade [...]