Thieves have broken into Paris' Natural History Museum, making off with gold samples worth $700,000 in the latest of a worrying series of robberies from cultural institutions, according to the museum.

The heist was the latest in a string of thefts at museums in France. By Christine Hauser Thieves broke into a gallery at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris overnight Monday and stole ...

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A Chinese woman has been arrested and charged over the theft of gold from the Natural History Museum in Paris, in one of several recent high-profile break-ins targeting French cultural institutions, a ...

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