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CULTURE WAR The Louvre in Paris is hosting some of Ukraine's most treasured works of art that were secretly evacuated from Kyiv to shield them from the war.Their exhibition at the world's best-known museum highlights the role played by culture and heritage as Ukraine resists Russian attempts to deny both its past and present.

The destruction of the Kakhovka Dam has inundated large areas of southern Ukraine, leaving tens of thousands of people at risk of losing their homes.The disaster, for which Russia and Ukraine blame each other, also has far-reaching consequences for agriculture and ecology in southern Ukraine.Government representatives in Kyiv are calling it an ecocide perpetrated by Russian attackers.

A 28-year-old female German student and three accomplices have been found guilty of carrying out a string of attacks on members of Germany's neo-Nazi scene, in one of the most high-profile trials of a group of militant leftists since the days of the Baader-Meinhof group.The woman, who in keeping with Germany's strict privacy laws was referred to only as Lina E, was sentenced on Wednesday to five years and three months in prison amid chaotic scenes at a court in Dresden, eastern Germany.

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A network of underground geothermal plants is being touted as a way to help level up the UK after a report discovered many areas with the greatest geothermal potential lie beneath the towns and cities most in need of investment.Areas that have been earmarked by the government as part of its levelling up agenda are about three times as likely to be rich in untapped energy from the earth, according to an academic study commissioned by No 10.

Crossing fingers and hoping for the best is hardly a sensible way to tackle the climate emergency, but it is a strategy that the government seems determined to follow.Today, it launched its revised net zero plan, which turns out to be more a damp squib than a rocket that will ignite a desperately needed green transformation of the energy landscape.