Growing pickpocketing threat leaves Eiffel Tower closed

Eiffel Tower, the darling of tourists vising Paris was shut down for almost six hours as its employees staged a walkout on account of growing menace of pickpocketers.

The pickpocketers are not only a threat to the tourists, but the workers claim the gangs are increasingly threatening them with assault or abuse.

Thousands of tourists visit Eiffel Tower daily - many deprived of their wallets while waiting to get tickets

Although the Tower was opened later on Friday, the tower staff are demanding "formal guarantees" from management to stop pick-pocketing gangs who target numerous tourists every day.

It may be added that A similar closure took place in April 2013 when the Louvre art gallery disappointed hundreds of tourists by closing down after staff complained of being spat at, abused and even assaulted by pickpocketing gangs.

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UN's Top Human Rights Official calls upon USA for Guantanamo Closure in Wake of Hunger Strikes

The United Nations' top human rights official pressed the U.S. on Friday to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, strongly criticizing the indefinite detention of inmates at the facility.

Navi Pillay, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said she is "deeply disappointed" Washington hasn't closed the facility. She urged all branches of the government to work together to shut it. She also added:

"The continuing indefinite incarceration of many of the detainees amounts to arbitrary detention and is in clear breach of international law."

It may be recalled that President Barack Obama pledged to shutter the prison soon after taking office, but Congress opposed it, passing a law that prohibits the government from transferring Guantanamo prisoners to U.S. soil and requiring security guarantees before they can be sent elsewhere.

Pillay said of a hunger strike currently being staged by detainees that "given the uncertainty and anxieties surrounding their prolonged and apparently indefinite detention in Guantanamo, it is scarcely surprising that people's frustrations boil over and they resort to such desperate measures."

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UK expels Iran diplomats after embassy attack

Yahoo News 30 Nov

Britain shut down the Iranian embassy in London and expelled all its staff on Wednesday, saying the storming of the British diplomatic mission in Tehran could not have taken place without some degree of consent from Iranian authorities, reports Yahoo News.

Protesters carry the royal coat of arms after breaking in to the British Embassy in the Iranian capital (Phot: Fars News/Getty Images)

However, mindful of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, when radical students held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, Britain waited till all its two dozen diplomatic staff and dependents had left the country to announce its move.

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