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In protest against international climate policy, militant climate activists have taped images of flooding to a well-known painting by Italian artist Sandro Botticelli in Florence. Two men from the Last Generation group used adhesive tape to stick several photographs of flooding on the glass cover protecting Boticelli’s painting “The Birth of Venus” at the Uffizi Gallery, police said. They also held up a poster demanding a special €20-billion ($21.43-billion) fund to repair climate damage. According to initial findings, the painting was not damaged. The police took the two men into custody. The…

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