Authorities raid California museums
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Federal agents executed search warrants Thursday at several Southern California museums, looking for stolen antiquities, officials said.
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Three armed men in ski masks stole four paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet worth $163.2 million from a Zurich museum in one of Europe's largest ever art heists, police said Monday.
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A state archivist was charged Monday with stealing hundreds of artifacts Â documents representing "the heritage of all Americans," according to the history buff who found some of them on eBay Â to pay his household bills.
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Police recovered paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari worth millions of dollars stolen last month from Brazil's leading modern art museum
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Paintings by famous Impressionists worth more than $91m are stolen from a Zurich museum.
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Precious paintings worth over 100 million Swiss francs (46.6 million pounds) were stolen from a Zurich museum in an armed robbery on Sunday, police said on Monday, the second dramatic art theft in the area in recent days.
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Thieves broke into Sao Paulo's leading art museum before dawn on Thursday and stole two oil paintings, including one by Pablo Picasso that could be worth some $50 million.
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Norwegian police are conducting a nationwide hunt for the armed thieves who Sunday made off with Edward Munch&#39;s masterpiece The Scream and another painting, Madonna.
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There's treasure on that there online car boot sale British Museum experts will monitor eBay antiquities sales and report illegal activity to the Met's Art and Antiques Unit in an arrangement announced today.â¦
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Police armed with a search warrant raided Michael Jackson&#39;s Neverland Valley Ranch on Friday, looking for evidence in the child molestation case against him, a Santa Barbara County Sheriff&#39;s spokesman said.
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Federal agents raided the museums in Los Angeles as part of a five-year investigation into the smuggling of looted antiquities from Thailand, Myanmar, China and Native American sites.
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Nine art objects, including a piece dating from more than 1,000 BC, have been stolen from a ceramics gallery at the Victoria and Albert museum in London, the museum said.
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The FBI has raided magician David Copperfield's warehouse and a theater where he performs in Las Vegas following sexual misconduct accusations by an unidentified woman, authorities and his lawyers said on Friday.
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Armed robbers stole paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet worth $163.2 million from a Zurich museum, police said Monday, calling it a "spectacular art robbery"
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A version of Edvard Munch's masterpiece "The Scream" and another famous painting by the great Norwegian artist were stolen from an Oslo museum by two armed and hooded robbers, police said.
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Armed, masked thieves burst into a lightly guarded Oslo museum Sunday and snatched the Edvard Munch masterpiece "The Scream" and a second Munch painting from the walls as stunned visitors watched in shock.
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Police in Peru storm an ancient Inca temple to free foreign 19 tourists taken hostage by coca growers.