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Yesterday — 19 October 2025Main stream

Louvre Closed After Thieves Steal ‘Priceless’ Jewels in Brazen Daylight Robbery

French officials said the thieves broke into a second-floor wing of the Paris museum that houses a collection including the French crown jewels.

© Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

Police officers outside the Louvre Museum on Sunday.

‘Don’t Touch My Retirement!’ Wins the Day in France

19 October 2025 at 12:01
The country’s attachment to an early pension, seen as a fundamental right, forced a major concession by the government, allowing it to survive, for now.

© Andrea Mantovani for The New York Times

People demonstrating in 2023 in Bordeaux, France, against pension reform. Many had thought the fight over raising the retirement age was settled, but that was not the case.
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