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Now playing Next Art Rediscovered Caravaggio to go on show at Madrid's Prado Madrid’s Prado Museum has confirmed that a painting which almost sold for the price of a Macbook at auction is in fact a long lost work of the Italian master painter worth tens of millions. 07/05/2024
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Now playing Next Climate Euroviews. Keep the Big Oil lobby out of policymaking — like we did with tobacco It is impossible to ignore the evidence of the harm caused by big oil and gas companies. Turning to them to decrease dependency on fossil fuels is like asking the tobacco industry for advice on how to stop smoking, Anna Gilmore writes. 29/04/2024
Now playing Next Europe News Protests erupt in Italy as G7 ministers meet to discuss climate crisis The Group of Seven will meet in Turin on Monday, in the first big session of environment talks since the world pledged to transition away from coal, oil and gas at the UN's COP28 climate summit in December. 29/04/2024
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