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Burglar breaks into George Clooney’s £25 million Lake Como villa and helps himself to the wine cellar

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An intruder has been arrested after breaking into George Clooney’s luxurious Italian holiday villa on Lake Como.

The man scaled the walls of the star’s luxurious £25million second home, Villa Oleandra, in the lakeside village of Laglio, and helped himself to the wine cellar before moving onto the main house.

Clooney was not at home.

 

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The news will come as a shock to the Hollywood star who has owned the 30-room property for more than a decade and is reportedly making plans for an Italian wedding to barrister fiancée Amal Alamuddin in September.
The trespasser climbed the outer wall, gaining access to the immaculately maintained gardens.
He then allegedly helped himself to a bottle of liquor from a wine cellar, before attempting to force the main entrance to the house.

A maid, who forms part of the Hollywood star’s maintenance staff, spotted an apparent thief and called police.

When the military police of Como arrived at the property the man allegedly threatened them with the bottle, but officers quickly overpowered him.

A 29-year-old Romanian man has been arrested, a spokesman for Carabinieri police in Como said.

 

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More than 100 children and babies rescued from Sicily-bound fishing boat in middle of Mediterranean crammed with nearly 500 migrants from Syria, Egypt and Bangladesh

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The Italian navy rescued nearly 500 people, including more than 100 children, in an all-night operation yesterday as the immigrants tried to cross from Africa into Europe.

The operation began as 133 children along with 74 women were brought aboard two navy vessels Monday evening from two fishing boats tethered together off Sicily.

The rescue then had to be suspended due to rough waters, the navy said. The remaining migrants, 281 men, were thrown life preservers and rescued on Tuesday.

Most were from Syria, Egypt and Bangladesh, the navy said.

There has been an enormous jump this year in the number of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.

Of the 26,644 migrants who arrived in Italy through April 30 this year, 3,848 were children and 2,744 of those were unaccompanied.

That compares with 3,362 arrivals in the same period last year, including 522 unaccompanied minors and 58 children with families.

The U.N. estimates that over 170 people have died at sea trying to reach Europe so far this year.

 

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Germany: Recognize Legitimacy of Ukraine Vote

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Germany’s foreign minister is stressing the importance of Ukraine’s presidential election results being recognized by all and says he doesn’t believe Russia has chosen to isolate itself internationally.

 

The West has threatened wider sanctions against Russia if Moscow derails Sunday’s vote, and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Thursday that all concerned should have an interest in the election being as fair as possible. He acknowledged that “might not be possible in some towns.”

 

Steinmeier says that after “a certain slowdown” in violence over the past nine days, he hopes the conflict won’t escalate again because of the election’s legitimacy being disputed “wantonly.”

 

 

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