How the Louvre’s other famous heist became part of art history
The jewellery heist at the Louvre on Sunday is only the latest in a series of thefts
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Nicolas Sarkozy to enter prison for criminal conspiracy over Libyan funding
Former French president set to start five-year sentence for scheme to obtain campaign funds from Muammar Gaddafi’s regimeThe former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, will go to prison on Tuesday after a court sentenced him to five years for criminal c…
Louvre jewellery heist: How masked gang raided museum and snatched ‘priceless’ jewels in broad daylight
The Mayor of Paris said the robbery was ‘a shock’ that resembled the plot of the mystery thriller Lupin
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Ukrainian drones have struck a major gas processing plant in southern Russia, causing a fire
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Louvre closed after ‘masked thieves break into museum using chainsaw’ and steal ‘priceless’ jewellery
France’s interior minister says the group entered the museum using a ladder and broke into windows using small chainsaws
Louvre heist: hunt on for thieves after eight ‘priceless’ jewellery pieces stolen
Necklace given by Napoleon to his wife among items taken from Paris museum in highly professional daylight raidFrench police are hunting four thieves who carried out a highly professional daylight raid on the Louvre, breaking into one of the museum’s m…
Pope Leo makes beloved ‘doctor of the poor’ Venezuela’s first saint
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20 European states demand measures to return Afghans either voluntarily or forcibly
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Analyst: Russia acts pragmatically while Iran treats politics as a matter of honor
Iranian political analyst Abbas Abdi has criticized Iran’s “honor-based” approach to politics, arguing that such rigidity prevents pragmatic policymaking and leads to endless conflict.