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Preliminary results suggest that Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative party has lost out to its rival Socialists in French regional elections.
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After a ten year moratorium, exploration on the future of the Gorleben nuclear waste dump is to resume. The Green party and environmental leaders are protesting the decision.
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Conventional Western public opinion regards the war in Afghanistan as a struggle between NATO and extremist Islamic militants. Since assuming office Barack Obama has redefined the conflict by calling it the Af-Pak war.
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A new synagogue was opened to the public in a city in western Germany this Sunday. The last synagogue in Herford closed during Adolf Hitler's rule of Germany.
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The representative of German Jews on the board of a new wartime refugee museum has threatened to step down. Salomon Korn demanded that the plight of Germans who fled Poland be linked to Nazi war crimes.
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Bayer Leverkusen kept in touch with Bayern Munich and Schalke on Sunday, securing three points at home against Hamburg. Werder Bremen beat Hoffenheim, and stay close to the European qualification spots.
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On the day of Michael Schumacher's return to Formula One, it was his old rival Fernando Alonso who rolled back the years. Just like in 2005 and 2006, the Spaniard spoiled Schumacher's party in Bahrain.
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The new wave of sex abuse allegations currently plaguing the Catholic Church has reached Switzerland. A Swiss abbot said victims, not the church, should be the ones to press charges.
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