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Merz ‘not giving up on working with Trump’ despite Iran war spat

German chancellor downplays US military drawbacks and president’s barbs in TV interview

The German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has said he will not give up on working with the US president, Donald Trump, despite a spat between the leaders over the war in Iran.

“I am not giving up on working on the transatlantic relationship,” Merz told the public broadcaster ARD in an interview due to air on Sunday night. “Nor am I giving up on working with Donald Trump.”

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© Photograph: dts News Agency Germany ARD/Thomas Ernst/Shutterstock

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Lost ‘cloud’ of artist who wrapped the Reichstag to be created in UK gallery

Exclusive: Scale model found in Christo’s studio leads to London realisation of internally lit Air Package on a Ceiling

Christo once wrapped up the Reichstag, suspended a curtain across a Colorado valley and covered up the Pont Neuf in Paris. Now, six years after the artist’s death, a London gallery is to create a monumental installation he designed in 1968, using a detailed scale model and drawings that had been presumed lost until their chance discovery.

Christo had imagined a vast, internally illuminated suspended form, like a cloud, but technical constraints meant the plan was never brought to fruition.

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© Photograph: Lutz Schmidt/Reuters

© Photograph: Lutz Schmidt/Reuters

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Planting seedlings at Laleh Parkland in Tehran

TEHRAN, May 03 (MNA) – The seedlings were planted at Laleh Parkland of Tehran on Sunday to honor the name and memory of the medical staff and personnel martyred during the war imposed by the Us and Israel against the country on February 28.

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