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Thailand seized 3 tons of ivory hidden in tea leaf sacks from Kenya in the second-biggest bust in the country s history, one week after the biggest seizure, customs officials said Monday.The 5 dunks 11 elephant tusks worth $6 million, bound for Laos, were seized upon arrival Saturday at a major port in Chonburi province in eastern Thailand. The bust came after customs officials received a tip-off in Laos and Thailand and tracked the containers from Kenya, Customs Department Director-Gen salomon gtx eral Somchai Sujjapongse told reporters.The ivory, hidden among tea leaves, was shipped out of Kenya on March 24 and went through ports in Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore before coming to Thailand, he said.The bust came one week after Thai customs officials seized 4 tons of tusks that were smuggled from Congo and also destined for Laos in what they said was the nation s biggest seizure. Blood ivory: Elephant poaching in Kenya 25 photos Somchai said that the tusks seized Saturday were more beautiful and complete than the previous lot, and that they would likely have been distributed to buyers in China, Vietnam and Thailand had the shipment reached Laos. Thailand is one of the top destinations for African ivory smuggling in Asia and could face internati adidas samba onal sa Velt Tiger on the loose near Disneyland Paris
Fierce armed clashes between terrorists and police in a diplomatic quarter of Damascus late Tuesday killed two attackers, a policeman and woman who was in the area, an Interior Ministry official said.The attack occurred in the Mazza district in west Damascus and stanley cup price centered around a vacated former U.N. building, which was extensively damaged during fighting that lasted 70 minutes between police and militants firing guns and grenade launchers.A U.N. spokeswoman said the building, which was formerly occupied by the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force that oversees an agreement between Israeli stanley mugs and Syrian forces in the Golan Heights, may have been hit in the attack.Syria has not seen such violence in years. The exact target and motivation of the attack is still unclear, reports CBS News Correspondent Mark Phillips. The Syrian government of Bashir al Assad has insisted that mdash; despite evidence to the contrary mdash; it is attempting to stop militants from infiltrating into neighboring Iraq, reports Phillips.But if this attack was directed at the U.N., it s another warning that renewed involvement in neighboring Iraq will be a potentially dangerous enterprise, Phillips reports.The Interior Ministry official told the state-run news agency, SANA, that four gunmen detonated a bomb plac stanley thermos ed under a car, which damaged an unidentified nearby building, before Syrian security forces surrounded the group and exchanged gun fire.The gunmen tried to flee in another car while hurling han