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Administration calls for watering street trees
Street trees suffer particularly during dry and hot spells in the summer. The Senate Department for the Environment is therefore appealing to Berliners. more
Gorbachev was a remarkably courageous statesman, Giffey tweeted on Wednesday. "His clever policies were instrumental in ending the Cold War and bringing down the Iron Curtain. In doing so, Gorbachev made the path to German unity possible." Giffey stated that people in East Germany in particular owed much to the Russian politician. Gorbachev had died on Tuesday evening in Moscow at the age of 91.