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Berlin 'divided' again to mark the fall of Berlin Wall
Berlin - Thousands flocked to the centre of Berlin Sunday, ahead of celebrations to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall that divided Germany until 1989 - symbolized Sunday by a row of giant domino stones set up throughout the his...
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Putin nostalgic for life in former East Germany
Moscow - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was fond of his life in the former communist East Germany, where he was based as a KGB officer up until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he said in an interview on Russia's NTW television Sunday. I ...
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Dresden synagogue daubed with swastikas
Dresden - The synagogue in the eastern German city of Dresden has been daubed with swastikas, ahead of the anniversary of Germany's 1938 pogrom night, police said on Sunday. Roughly six metres of the synagogue's outside wall had been covered in the N...
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Angry Russian cop now fearful after online video complaint
Moscow - A Russian police officer who posted two video clips on the internet to air his grievances directly to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin about pay and overtime work conditions said Sunday he now feared for his life. The Interfax agency cited Majo...
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Two women hikers freeze to death in northern Spain
Madrid - Two women hikers who got lost in the Pyrenees Mountains in northern Spain were found frozen to death by rescue teams, officials reported Sunday. Authorities in the north-eastern city Gerona said three others in the five-member group of hiker...
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Lahm and Toni face sanctions at troubled Bayern Munich
Munich - Italy striker Luca Toni and Germany defender Philipp Lahm can expect to be disciplined by Bayern Munich amid media reports of a crisis at Germany's most successful Bundesliga club. A newspaper interview by Lahm highly critical of transfer ...
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One dead and one missing after floods hit Greece
Athens - One man died and another was missing on Sunday after storms washed away roads and flooded homes and farms across Greece, reports said. The body of a man was recovered after his car was swept away by a river in the hardest hit region of Greve...
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EU urges resumption of dialogue in Honduras
Stockholm - The European Union urged the sides in Honduras to resume the dialogue aimed at restoring ousted President Manual Zelaya to power and expressed concern over the interruption in the process. Sweden, holder of the rotating presidency of ...
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