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July 24, 2016 at 7:42 pm

Years before truck rampage, Nice attacker wasn’t ‘living in the real world’

The attacker showed signs of verging psychosis and a hair-trigger propensity for violence, and has been described variously as a drinker, a wife beater, a...

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Plastic boxes placed between sculptures as artworks are packed to be moved from the exhibition hall, as visitors are turned away from the entrance of the Musee de Louvre which is closed due to the unusually high water level of the nearby river Seine in Paris, Friday, June 3, 2016. French officials say that the Seine River is still rising in Paris as France’s unseasonable spate of rainfall begins to taper off. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) MSC106

June 3, 2016 at 10:29 pm

Round-the-clock effort to safeguard Louvre treasures from floodwaters

The Denon Wing, home of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” and usually the most crowded of the museum’s three wings, was ghostly

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