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DUBLIN - Masked men stole eight rhino horns from the National Museum of Ireland with a street value of about 500,000 euros ($650,000), officials said Thursday. The gang of three broke into the museum archives building in Dublin late on Wednesday, tied up a security guard and loaded four rhino heads -- each with two horns --- onto a van, police said. The guard, who was unhurt, eventually freed himself and raised the alarm, but not before the thieves had made off with their haul. RELATED: Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Work Tirelessly In ...

JOHANNESBURG - Poachers have killed 158 rhinos in South Africa's national parks since the beginning of the year, a rate of more than two a day, environment officials said on Friday. The vast Kruger National Park which borders Mozambique has registered 116 killings, despite beefed up anti-poaching initiatives by park authorities. In December, Kruger acquired a military aircraft equipped with sophisticated surveillance technology to detect poachers. "A total of 61 people have been arrested, 38 of them alleged poachers and three alleged couriers," said a statement. Parks in the mining province of North West and the eastern KwaZulu-Natal reported 12 and nine killings respectively. Poaching ...