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The leader of the Left Front party in France Jean-Luc Melenchon says he'll contest the same seat in next Month's (parliamentary elections) as the National Front leader Marine Le Pen. Mr. Melenchon said he would stand in the northern town of Henin-Beaumont, describing the contest as a battle of national and (European significance).
The Greek president Karolos Papoulias has begun work to form an emergency government to avoid having to hold fresh elections after last Sunday's (inconclusive poll). Mr Papoulias has summoned leaders of all the main political parties to meetings on Sunday. Here's Mark Lowen.
Three party leaders attempted to form a government to fill the power vacuum to stave off fresh elections. All three failed. Now the president will have his turn (summoning) all parties to request an emergency government of national salvation. If as expected, that fails too, Greece will (stumble towards) a new election. According to opinion polls, a party that wants to tear up the country's loan agreement with Brussels and turn its back on austerity could come first. But European leaders have said Greece must stick to the bailout and its (cost-cutting path).
In Britain, nine men have been arrested in connection with another sexual grooming inquiry in Rochdale in Great Manchester. Police said that the men aged between 24 and 38 have been questioned on suspicion of sexual activity with a child. The arrests come just days after nine men from the same area were convicted of being part of a (child exploitation) ring.
A British military train which linked west Germany to west Berlin during the cold war has made a (commemorative) run today 21 years after its last journey. Almost every day for four decades the train travelled through communist East Germany, demonstrating its passengers' right of access to the divided city which lay deep behind the Iron Curtain. Retired British officers on today's train recalled the professionalism of those running the service.
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