- English Videos
- English News and Articles
- Donald Trump fires national security chief John Bolton
- Saudi hit squad’s gruesome conversations during Khashoggi's murder revealed
- Islamic State weapons in Yemen traced back to US Government & US Task Force Smoking Gun smuggles weapons to Syria: Serbia files
- NEWS - Germany prepared to take in 25% of migrants who arrive in Italy by sea
- Saudi Arabia oil facilities
- Interview with Edward Snowden - 'If I Happen to Fall out of a Window, You Can Be Sure I Was Pushed'
- INVESTIGATION - In detail: Belgium's EU nominee faces crime probe
- Syria: Assad issues amnesty, reduces sentences
- Old, Educated, and Politically Diverse: The Audience of Public Service News
- Translated News in English
- Attack at the Breitscheidplatz - Committee must not question Amri-Friend
- Tagesspiegel complains against intelligence service - BND makes its first information about his press work
- Train: More monitoring with face recognition at train stations
- Despite khashoggi murder - Germany silently and secretly resumes cooperation with the Saudis
- 7.5 million workers affected - One in five in Germany does not work in normal employment
- Training project of the Bundeswehr - Court of Auditors picked up by Leyens Refugee-Aid
- Study of forensic medicine in Münster - Doubts on minority: 40 percent of the refugees checked incorrectly stated age
- Italy: Social Democrats split & NEWS - Italy's Matteo Renzi to form new party after exiting Democratic Party
- Publicity - Judgment: BND (Domestic Intelligence Service/Bundesnachrichtendienst) must disclose background talks with journalists
- NEWS - Prosecutors probe how Airbus got classified Bundeswehr files
- Germany - Car Toll
I. English Videos
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-> John Bolton Fired Over Libya Policy Or Taliban?
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-> 9/11 Whistleblowers: Kevin Ryan
-> 9/11 Whistleblowers: Cate Jenkins
-> 9/11 Whistleblowers: Barry Jennings
-> 9/11 Whistleblowers: Michael Springmann
-> 9/11 Whistleblowers: William Rodriguez
-> 9/11 Whistleblowers: The 9/11 Commissioners
II. English News and Articles
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-> Donald Trump fires national security chief John Bolton
The US president said he "disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions." Bolton, a hawkish neoconservative best known for his "Axis of Evil" views, was a key figure in the US administrations of both Bushes and Reagan.
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source: dw
source: tass
source: reuters
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-> Saudi hit squad’s gruesome conversations during Khashoggi's murder revealed
Audio recordings of the horrifying conversations between the 15-man Saudi hit squad and their victim, journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has been revealed to the public for the first time by the Turkish daily Sabah.
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source: daily sabah
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-> Islamic State weapons in Yemen traced back to US Government: Serbia files (part 1)
While US President Donald Trump boasts about the defeat of Islamic State in Syria, US government-purchased weapons appear in the hands of Islamic State terrorists in Yemen.
Recently I anonymously received explosive documents from the Serbian state-owned arms companies Krusik and Jugoimport SDPR, including e-mails, internal memos, contracts, photos, delivery schedules, and packing lists with lot numbers of weapons and their buyers. Among the leaked documents I also received scanned passports of arms dealers and government officials from the US, Saudi Arabia and UAE. They have been involved in the trafficking of at least 3 million pieces of Serbian weapons (mortar shells and rockets) to Yemen and Syria in the last three years.
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source: armswatch
-> US Task Force Smoking Gun smuggles weapons to Syria: Serbia files (part 2)
New leaked documents expose for the first time a secret US Special Operations Command unit code named Task Force Smoking Gun. It has been deployed in Croatia since 2017 and tasked with diverting tons of arms and ammunition from Europe to Syria.
Recently I anonymously received explosive documents about arms deals between the US Government and the Serbian state owned-arms manufacturer Krusik, including contracts, e-mails, internal memos, photos, delivery schedules, and packing lists of weapons with lot numbers and their buyers. Among the leaked documents I also received scanned passports of arms dealers and government officials from the US. They have visited Krusik to buy weapons for the Pentagon Train and Equip program for militants in Syria.
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source: armswatch
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-> NEWS - Germany prepared to take in 25% of migrants who arrive in Italy by sea
Interior Minister Seehofer has made the gesture ahead of EU talks on migration later this month. The issue has been one of hot debate in recent years following a spate of arrivals in the Mediterranean.
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source: dw
source: tagesspiegel
source: faz
source: spiegel
source: tagesschau
source: zeit
-> Sea Rescue : Italy lets boat people into the country
- The new Italian government wants to deal with boat refugees differently than the broken coalition of the populist five-star movement and the right leg.
- 82 migrants on the rescue vessel Ocean Viking are now allowed to land on the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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source: sz translate
source: sz
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Already in January 2019 at the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland) there was an informal agreement with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and Conte. In it Conte explains that the MoVimento 5 Stelle suffers from declining poll numbers from 33% to 26-27% while the Lega has risen in the polls from 17% to 35-36%. In addition Conte lamented the policy of closed ports that Salvini (Lega) pursued as Minister of the Interior. Thus the new coalition could undermine the previous migration policy. [25] [25,alt]
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Schon im Januar 2019 auf dem Weltwirtschaftsforum (World Economic Forum) in Davos (Schweiz) gab es eine informelle Absprache mit der deutschen Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) und Conte. Darin erläutert Conte dass die MoVimento 5 Stelle unter sinkenden Umfragewerten von 33% auf 26-27% leidet während die Lega in den Umfragewerten von 17% auf 35-36% gestiegen ist. Außerdem beklagte Conte die Politik der geschlossenen Häfen die Salvini (Lega) als Innenminister verfolgt hat. Die neue Koalition könnte die bisherige Migrationspolitik also unterlaufen. [25] [25,alt]
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-> Saudi Arabia oil facilities ablaze after drone strikes
Drone attacks have set alight two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia, state media say.
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source: bbc
source: orf
source: zeit
-> Saudi oil strikes: US blames Iran for twin attacks
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blamed Iran for Saturday's drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities.
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source: bbc
-> Oil Price Explosion – Brent Crude Jumps 20%
Traders have scrambled to calculate what the limit move in oil would be, after Saturday’s drone attack on the ‘’world’s most important oil processing plant’’. And moments ago, Brent crude reopened for trading, exploding almost 20% higher, its biggest jump in 28-years time.
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source: oilprice
source: bloomberg
-> Trump says he does not want war after attack on Saudi oil facilities
US President Donald Trump said on Monday said it looked like Iran was behind attacks on oil plants in Saudi Arabia but stressed he did not want to go to war, as the attacks sent oil prices soaring and raised fears of a new Middle East conflict.
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source: middle east monitor
source: sz
source: tagesschau
source: spiegel
-> Houthi rebels overturned the chessboard
The Yemeni Shiite group’s spectacular attack on Abqaiq raises the distinct possibility of a push to drive the House of Saud from power
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source: asia times/PEPE ESCOBAR
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-> Interview with Edward Snowden - 'If I Happen to Fall out of a Window, You Can Be Sure I Was Pushed'
In a DER SPIEGEL interview, whistleblower Edward Snowden talks about how he managed to mislead the most powerful intelligence agency in the world, about his life in Russia and about why the internet must be reinvented.
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Snowden: Four years ago, Barack Obama was president. Four years ago, Boris Johnson wasn't around and the AfD (Germany's right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany) was still kind of a joke. But now in 2019, no one is laughing. When you look around the world, when you look at the rising factionalization of society, when you see this new wave of authoritarianism sweeping over many countries: Everywhere political classes and commercial classes are realizing they can use technology to influence the world on a new scale that was not previously available. We are seeing our systems coming under attack.
DER SPIEGEL: What systems?
Snowden: The political system, the legal system, the social system. And we have the proclivity to think that if we get rid of the people we don't like, the problem is solved. We go: "Oh, it's Donald Trump. Oh, it's Boris Johnson. Oh, it's the Russians" But Donald Trump is not the problem. Donald Trump is the product of the problem.
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Snowden: The most unflattering thing is to realize just how naïve and credulous I was and how that could make me into a tool of systems that would use my skills for an act of global harm. The class of which I am a part of, the global technological community, was for the longest time apolitical. We have this history of thinking: "We're going to make the world better."
DER SPIEGEL: Was that your motivation when you entered the world of espionage?
Snowden: Entering the world of espionage sounds so grand. I just saw an enormous landscape of opportunities because the government in its post-9/11 spending blitz was desperate to hire anybody who had high-level technical skills and a clearance. And I happened to have both. It was weird to be just a kid and be brought into CIA headquarters, put in charge of the entire Washington metropolitan area's network.
DER SPIEGEL: Was it not also fascinating to be able to invade pretty much everybody's life via state-sponsored hacking?
Snowden: You have to remember, in the beginning I didn't even know mass surveillance was a thing because I worked for the CIA, which is a human intelligence organization. But when I was sent back to NSA headquarters and my very last position to directly work with a tool of mass surveillance, there was a guy who was supposed to be teaching me. And sometimes he would spin around in his chair, showing me nudes of whatever target's wife he's looking at. And he's like: "Bonus!"
DER SPIEGEL: Was there a turning point for you?
Snowden: No, it happened over years. But I remember one specific moment: In my last position I was an infrastructure analyst. There are basically two forms of mass surveillance analysts at the NSA. There are persona analysts, all they do is read people's Facebook traffic, their chats, their messaging. Infrastructure analysts are frequently used for counterhacking. We're trying to see what others have done to us, without having names or numbers. Instead of tracking people, you're tracking devices.
DER SPIEGEL: Like a public computer?
Snowden: We would, for instance, track a computer in a library and turn on the camera to actually watch the users. And you would record it and store the video file away in case it ends up being interesting later. We've got a ton of like up-nose pictures from Iraqi cybercafés. So somehow I came across a recording of this guy who was an engineer somewhere in Southeast Asia and had been applying for a job in some university that was suspected of being related to a nuclear program or a cyberattack. I don't even remember because there's always some justification. And this man had his child on his lap, which was innocently banging on the keyboard.
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DER SPIEGEL: You describe your arrival in Moscow as a walk in the park. You say you refused to cooperate with the Russian intelligence agency FSB and they let you go. That sounds implausible to us.
Snowden: I think what explains the fact that the Russian government didn't hang me upside down my ankles and beat me with a shock prod until secrets came out was because everyone in the world was paying attention to it. And they didn't know what to do. They just didn't know how to handle it. I think their answer was: "Let's wait and see."
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Snowden: We have to stop bulk collection. If you're watching everyone in the world all of the time just in case they become dangerous, that's really problematic, because it changes the character of society.
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source: spiegel
-> BIOGRAPHY APPEARS : Union (CDU/CSU) continues to refuse asylum for Snowden
US whistleblower Edward Snowden still would not mind leaving Russia for Germany. However, he can not expect protection in this country from extradition to the USA.
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source: golem translate
source: golem
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-> INVESTIGATION - In detail: Belgium's EU nominee faces crime probe
Belgium's nominee for EU justice commissioner was part of a corruption scheme involving the Congo and Libya, a Belgian former spy has testified.
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source: eu observer
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-> Syria: Assad issues amnesty, reduces sentences
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad yesterday issued an amnesty that reduces sentences and pardons draft dodgers if they report for duty within three to six months, Reuters reported.
The pardon, which was published by the official Syrian news agency, is related to all crimes committed before 14 September 2019.
According to Reuters, the pardon reduces the death penalty to a life sentence and life sentences to 20 years.
Fugitives, Reuters said, must turn themselves in within three months to benefit from the amnesty.
The amnesty does not cover Syrians who took up arms to fight against the state, colluded with foreign nations against Syria, or joined insurgents, whom Damascus regards as terrorists.
Other exceptions include drug crimes and arms smugglers.
Draft dodgers inside Syria will have three months to take advantage of the amnesty while those abroad will have six months.
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source: middle east monitor
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In addition to the economic motivation there are also foreign policy motivations. And one of them is the deliberate depopulation of a country to achieve political goals. Such a destabilization can be the sanctioning of a country that depends on outside help and or the subsidization of people who want to leave a country.
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Neben der wirtschaftlichen Motivation gibt es aber auch außenpolitische Motivationen. Und eine davon ist die bewusste Entvölkerung eines Landes um politische Ziele zu erreichen. Eine solche Destabilisierung kann die Sanktionierung eines Landes das auf Hilfe von außen angewiesen ist sein und oder die Subventionierung von Menschen die ein Land verlassen wollen.
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-> Old, Educated, and Politically Diverse: The Audience of Public Service News
Public service media are often widely used, highly trusted, and do not face the business pressures with which their private peers have to contend. But a closer look suggests that the challenges that face public service media news provision are bigger – much bigger – than is commonly acknowledged, even in countries with a long history of strong public service media.
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source: reuters institute
source: full report (PDF)
source: press release (PDF)
III. Translated News in English
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-> Attack at the Breitscheidplatz - Committee must not question Amri-Friend
Bilel Ben A. was considered the closest friend of the assassin of Breitscheidplatz, Amri, - and possible connoisseur. The committee therefore wants to question him. According to the federal government, however, the legal basis is missing.
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source: tagesschau translate
source: tagesschau
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-> Tagesspiegel complains against intelligence service - BND makes its first information about his press work
The BND selects which journalists it informs exclusively. The Tagesspiegel wants to achieve more transparency. Now the Federal Administrative Court decides.
The Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has for the first time provided details of its regular secret information practice for journalists. According to this study, since 2016 BND employees have conducted at least four events at locations in Berlin and Pullach where the intelligence service provides selected media representatives with analyzes on the situation abroad without them being allowed to become public.
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In the so-called background talks, which are also practiced in a similar way by the Constitutional Protection Offices, Federal Office of Criminal Investigation, Chancellery and ministries, participating journalists must commit to secrecy. In return, you will receive information that is withheld from other press representatives.
The BND selects the media representatives themselves and addresses the invitations to them personally. As BND spokesman Martin Heinemann said in court, the meetings served to complement the research of the media or to provide new approaches. In this case, the BND should remain undetected as a supplier of information, as otherwise foreign policy implications would be feared. There are hardly any other press conferences of the BND. The information of journalists is regularly only in this way and "in the background" instead, even in one-to-one interviews.
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source: tagesspiegel translate
source: tagesspiegel
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-> Train: More monitoring with face recognition at train stations
Politicians and the railway have agreed on a package of measures with video surveillance and biometric facial recognition to make stations safer.
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source: heise translate
source: heise
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-> Despite khashoggi murder - Germany silently and secretly resumes cooperation with the Saudis
Despite the unexplained death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Germany wants to resume the training of border guards in Saudi Arabia. The mission had been suspended only last October. The federal police are appalled.
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source: focus translate
source: focus
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-> 7.5 million workers affected - One in five in Germany does not work in normal employment
Temporary work, mini-jobs and fixed-term contracts affect millions of workers. Nearly 17 percent of them also work for low wages.
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source: tagesspiegel translate
source: tagesspiegel
#Arbeitnehmer #Vollzeit #Flexibilisierung https://t.co/6YHl3xi5rr pic.twitter.com/OsHNuFfJ2e
— Blickpunkt WiSo (@annotazionide) September 18, 2019
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[Economics] Is the German Economy great
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-> Training project of the Bundeswehr - Court of Auditors picked up by Leyens Refugee-Aid
As Minister of Defense, Ursula von der Leyen announced that the Bundeswehr would train Syrian refugees. The balance sheet of the Federal Court of Auditors to the project turns out to SPIEGEL information devastating.
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source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel
source: welt
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-> Study of forensic medicine in Münster - Doubts on minority: 40 percent of the refugees checked incorrectly stated age
Legal physicians from Münster have investigated on behalf of courts and youth welfare offices nearly 600 "unaccompanied minor refugees" whose age there was doubt. It turned out that about 40 percent of the young men were adults. The victims lost their special status in the asylum procedure.
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source: focus translate
source: focus
source: zeit
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-> Italy: Social Democrats split
Renzi Wing founds its own party, but wants to support Prime Minister Conte
Just over a week after the approval of the new Italian coalition in the Senate, the former leader of the now co-governing Social Democrats has split the party and set up his own. This step, which had been speculated by the Italian media for quite some time, the former Prime Minister yesterday confirmed the incumbent party-free Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and today the newspaper La Repubblica .
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source: telepolis/Peter Mühlbauer translate
source: telepolis/Peter Mühlbauer
-> NEWS - Italy's Matteo Renzi to form new party after exiting Democratic Party
The former prime minister of Italy has parted ways with the Democratic Party, saying it lacked vision for the future. His decision could destabilize a coalition government between PD and the populist 5-Star Movement.
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source: dw
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-> Öffentlichkeit - Gerichtsurteil: BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) muss Hintergrundgespräche mit Journalisten offenlegen
Der Bundesnachrichtendienst muss offenlegen, welche Pressevertreter an Journalistengesprächen des Geheimdienstes teilnehmen. Das hat das Bundesverwaltungsgericht entschieden. Endlich kommt mehr Licht ins Dunkel dieser exklusiven Hintergrundgespräche.
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source: netzpolitik
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-> NEWS - Prosecutors probe how Airbus got classified Bundeswehr files
Airbus acquired classified documents from Germany's armed forces concerning two military procurement programs. The aerospace giant said it is "fully cooperating" with an investigation into how employees got the files.
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source: dw
source: faz
source: spiegel
source: spiegel
source: sz
source: sz
source: tagesschau
source: tagesschau
source: zeit
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-> Conflict on car toll - Legal correspondence reveals Scheuer's strategy
The external office of Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) reacts quickly. Even on 18 June 2019, the day on which the European Court of Justice (ECJ) declares the German car toll illegal , the lawyers write a registered letter. "In the name of the Federal Republic of Germany" they are addressing the consortium that should collect and control the infrastructure tax, in short: car toll. Kapsch AG and CTS Eventim have organized themselves in the operating company autoTicket GmbH. You will receive the notice with the letter.
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source: berliner-zeitung translate
source: berliner-zeitung
-> After the failure of the car toll - How Andreas Scheuer tries to save himself politically
The Federal Ministry of Transport (BMVI) is apparently in the dispute over the illegal awarding of the car toll time and on the fact that the parties to the dispute can not agree. This is suggested by confidential documents available to the Berliner Zeitung. In case of serious disagreement, the toll contracts provide for an arbitration, which would give time to the ailing Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) due to secrecy and duration. Behind this approach Green and Bundestag members of the FDP assume a strategy. And their assessment can be corroborated by the legal correspondence between the Ministry and the private operator consortium, which is available to the Berliner Zeitung exclusively.
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source: berliner-zeitung translate
source: berliner-zeitung
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[Economics] How the German highway-grid is privatized
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