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Health care staff protest plan for major cuts
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Health care staff protest plan for major cuts

Skip next section Kai Havertz: Arsenal and Germany's man for the big moment05/28/2026May 28, 2026Kai Havertz: Arsenal and Germany's man for the big momentKai Havertz has a habit of scoring winning goals for his club and Arsenal hope he can do it again on SaturdayImage: Marvin Ibo Gรผngรถr/GES/picture allianceGermany forward Kai Havertz is set to play in his second British Champions League final on Saturday. Havertz is in the right place at the right time. If he can deliver in the Champions League final in Budapest on Saturday, he will join a rare list of players to have scored in multiple Champions League finals. More than that though, he will have cemented his place as one of the most successful German footballers of all time. Click here to read DW's full analysis of what Saturday's game...
UK re-chalks Dorset’s famed and feisty Cerne Abbas Giant
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UK re-chalks Dorset’s famed and feisty Cerne Abbas Giant

The National Trust, Britain's heritage and nature conservation charity, said on Thursday that specialists had started work re-chalking the UK's "largest and most iconic chalk hill figure," the Cerne Abbas Giant.ย  The roughly 55-meter (180-feet) tall chalk giant carved into a hillside overlooking Cerne Abbas in Dorset in southwest England is a standout figure of the landscape and renowned landmark, not least because it's such an anatomically faithful rendering of a naked and clearly excitedย club-wielding man. The outline is prone to the elements, though, and requires regular renewal to prevent it from fading. The famous erect penis was accidentally extended by almost a third during maintenance in 1908, when what used to be the belly button was mistakenly incorporated into the tip โ€” but a...
France moves to symbolically repeal slavery legislation
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France moves to symbolically repeal slavery legislation

French lawmakers on Thursday voted to formally repeal slavery-era laws that defined the legal status of enslaved people as "movable property" and justified abuse and corporal punishment.ย  While slavery was outlawed more than 170 years ago in France, making Thursday's motion a symoblic move to formally repeal an old royal decree that was superseded not overturned, the vote comes as the country continues to grapple with its colonial legacy.ย  France was the third-most prolific European trader of enslaved people in the colonial era, after Britain and Portugal. Expert estimates suggest ships departing French ports traffickedย more than a million men, women and children from Africa, often to toil in Caribbean colonies.ย Max Mathiasin, a lawmaker from Guadeloupe, presented the bill to parliamentI...
Ex-CIA officer charged with stealing gold from government
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Ex-CIA officer charged with stealing gold from government

Federal court filings in Virginia, home to the Langley headquarters of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),ย show a former official is accused of stealing hundreds of gold bars and other valuables from the government.ย  The man was arrested and charged with criminal theft of public money last week, according to the court documents, the Associated Press reported. What is the case about?ย  Between November 2025 and March this year, the man requested and received a "significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses," an affidavit from an FBI agent investigating the case alleges.ย  It says it's unclear what he intended to use the funds for, but that a portion of it was found in a storage space near his office.ย  When federal of...
EU summons Russian envoy after call to leave Kyiv
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EU summons Russian envoy after call to leave Kyiv

The EU, Germany, several UN members and Secretary-General Antonio Guterres all rebuked Russia on Tuesday forย Sunday's bombardment of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and Moscow's call for foreign diplomats to leave the city for their own safety.ย  Sunday's attack was one of the larger bombardments of Kyiv in the four-year Russian invasion. And on Monday, the Kremlin announcedย that it planned more such attacks that would "systematically" target what it said were defense companies and other military targets in the city.ย  Russia had first raised the prospect of widespread attacks on Kyiv earlier in May, amid the two sides' bickering over a possible ceasefire to mark the anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe in 1945. Both times it said it was responding to Ukrainian long-range drone stri...