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A private security guard patrols in the courtyard of the Louvre museum, in Paris on November 3, 2025. (Julie SEBADELHA / AFP)
November 25, 2025, 5:37 pm
Four more arrested in Louvre jewelry heist, but priceless loot still unfound
Two men and two women join four already detained, including a couple with children; thieves stole $102 million worth of French imperial jewels
By AFP
This photo provided October 23, 2025 by Interpol and taken from its website shows the jewels stolen in the Louvre museum in Paris on October 19, 2025. (Interpol via AP)
October 26, 2025, 1:57 pm
Suspects arrested over the theft of crown jewels from Paris’s Louvre museum
Prosecutor says one man was stopped as he was about to board plane out of country, media puts number of detainees at two
By AP
French police officers stand next to a basket lift used by robbers to enter the Louvre Museum, on Quai Francois Mitterrand, in Paris on October 19, 2025. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)
October 19, 2025, 3:50 pm
Chainsaw-wielding thieves use basket lift to steal ‘priceless’ jewelry from Louvre
French daily Le Parisien reports that criminals stole ‘nine pieces from the jewelry collection of Napoleon and the Empress’; one stolen item later found near museum
By Agencies
Staff leave the Louvre Museum as people are evacuated after it received a written threat, in Paris, Saturday Oct. 14, 2023. (Thomas Padilla/AP)
October 14, 2023, 11:56 pm
Louvre and Versailles Palace evacuated after bomb threats, with France on alert
Some staff return to Gambetta-Carnot in Arras, site of Friday’s terror stabbing; suspect in custody
By AP
Illustrative: Protesters stage a die-in and have their shapes traced on the sidewalk outside the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy is taking place in White Plains, New York, August 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
October 3, 2022, 10:27 am
Joining wave of institutions, London museum drops Sackler name from exhibits
Victoria and Albert Museum cuts ties from American family blamed for fueling opioid crisis; advocacy group leader Nan Goldin hails ‘big victory’
By ToI Staff
A security guard cleans smeared cream from the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum, in Paris, France, May 29, 2022. (@Klevisl007 via AP)
May 30, 2022, 5:00 pm
Man in a wig and wheelchair throws cake at Mona Lisa
Painting undamaged in apparent environmental protest, but glass housing is smudged
By AP
Visitors outside the Louvre Museum, in Paris on April 29, 2022. (AFP)
May 27, 2022, 11:36 am
Ex-Louvre director charged with fraud in acquisition of ancient Egyptian artifacts
Jean-Luc Martinez accused of money laundering, ‘concealing the origin of criminally obtained works’ bought for French museum’s Abu Dhabi branch
By Murielle Kasprzak and Joseph Schmid
Detail from Nicolas de Largillière, 'Portrait of a lady as Pomona, traditionally identified as the Marquise de Parabère' (Courtesy Sotheby's)
January 27, 2022, 12:47 am
After finding it, author to part with her family’s Nazi-looted 18th-century painting
On Jan. 27, Sotheby’s to auction ‘Portrait of a Lady as Pomona,’ once owned by collector Jules Strauss; the work’s long journey is the subject of a book by Pauline Baer de Perignon
By Renee Ghert-Zand
This court-sketch made in Paris on June 21, 2021, shows Abdalla El Hamahmi, who launched a machete-wielding attack at four French soldiers outside the Louvre Museum's entrances in 2017, standing during his trial at a Paris courthouse. (Benoit Peyrucq/AFP)
June 24, 2021, 11:11 pm
French court sentences Louvre machete assailant to 30 years in prison
Egyptian citizen Abdalla El Hamahmi injured a French soldier during a 2017 attack
By AFP
A man walks through the deserted Louvre museum, in Paris, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
March 26, 2021, 11:18 pm
Louvre puts its entire collection online
World’s most-visited museum, closed by pandemic, creates a new database of 482,000 items on its website
By AFP
The traveling Israeli and US press is shown around the Louvre Abu Dhabi, August 31, 2020 (Courtesy Louvre Abu Dhabi)
September 1, 2020, 12:46 am
A kosher banquet and a paradigm change: UAE signals this will be a warm peace
Following our historic nonstop flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi, the Emirati authorities are going out of their way to make their Israeli guests feel wanted
By Raphael Ahren
A worker walks amidst beds made out of cardboard inside the campus hall of spiritual organisation converted into a COVID-19 care center, in New Delhi on July 6, 2020 (Xavier GALIANA / AFP)
July 7, 2020, 5:21 am
India caseload surges as experts warn of virus going airborne
Country sees 24,000 cases in 24 hours; Louvre reopens with measures to stop overcrowding; hospital beds full in some parts of Texas; scientists urge use of high-grade air filters
By AFP
Tourists, some wearing a mask, queue to enter the Louvre museum, in Paris, February 28, 2020. (Rafael Yaghobzadeh/AP)
March 1, 2020, 6:18 pm
Coronavirus fears close down France’s Louvre Museum
Gallery’s 2,300 workers had expressed concern they would be exposed to deadly virus by the tens of thousands of daily visitors
By John Leicester
The Louvre courtyard and pyramid. (Wikipedia/Alvesgaspar/CC BY-SA)
July 17, 2019, 11:06 pm
Louvre museum removes Sackler name amid opioid controversy
Billionaire family are owners of Purdue Pharma, whose painkiller OxyContin is subject of over 1,000 lawsuits for role in US addiction crisis
By AFP
Moving artifacts from the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem into the new exhibition at the Louvre, which opens May 2, 2019 (Courtesy Bible Lands Museum PR)
May 2, 2019, 4:28 pm
Louvre features artifacts from Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum
The collaboration between the two museums was long and complex, hopefully first of many, says Israeli museum director
By Jessica Steinberg
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