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Lars Werner

German playwright and radio drama writer

  • Aug 9

    Saxony-Anhalt cities expand public drinking fountains as climate adaptation measure

    Cities across Saxony-Anhalt are expanding public drinking fountains as a climate adaptation measure, with Magdeburg growing from zero to five in three years and several smaller towns adding their first.

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China and the West: decoupling

No new discrete event this cycle; finding [0] duplicates the already-chronicled 23 September Xie Feng warning.

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