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The recent placid mix of foggy and sunny weather conditions over much of Germany will be gradually replaced with heavy rain and sometimes stormy winds, the German Weather Service said on Saturday.
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At least on Sunday, in the east and south-east parts of the country, regional fog will be initially chased away by sunshine. But thick clouds are due to follow, although they will not initially produce rain.

Rain will pull across from the north west and west to the south east on Sunday night and temperatures will drop to around 2 Celcius in the north east and around 11 Celcius in the south west. .

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Monday will be rainy in the south east, with temperatures between 7 and 13 Celcius, while conditions are expected to dry up somewhat from Tuesday.

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Brandenburgs Minister President Matthias Platzeck has called for reconciliation with the former communists who ruled East Germany.
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Platzeck made his plea writing in Der Spiegel magazine this weekend, he is about to form a new state government between his Social Democratic Party and the Left Party and just before Germany celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

He said East Germans were still split within themselves over their roles during the communist regime, a situation which Platzeck called unhealthy.

He writes, Two decades after the revolutionary upheaval in the GDR we in Germany have to finally start to seriously mean business with the overdue process of reconciliation.

Platzeck even made reference to the gesture made by former SPD party leader Kurt Schumacher, who had been a concentration camp prisoner for nearly 10 years, but in 1951 said reconciliation even with surviving members of the Waffen SS was, a human and civic necessity. . But he said it had not yet been possible to effect a comparable integration of the two former sides.

The Brandenburg leader said reconciliation attempts had made better progress in united Germany since 1990 than in a comparable time after the end of World War Two in 1945.

The power of the past is easy to explain.

Talking of the Left Party as the successor to the East German Socialist Unity Party, SED, Platzeck said the weight of the past could still be felt.

And referring to his future governing coalition with the Left Party, Platzeck writes, Whether we have learned the right lessons from history will be shown less by our ritualised processing of the past, as by our readiness to make an active new start. But it does not do East Germany any good, and it does not do the political culture in our republic, united since 1990, any good, he writes.

Many SPD members, including some who have risen within the ranks since the election, want to take the party further left to gather support from the Left Party, and might even consider some kind of alliance.

His essay will provide fuel to the debate being held within the SPD, about how to react to last months general election defeat, and the gains achieved by the Left Party, which includes many trade unionists and disaffected former SPD members.

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Others feel the party must remain in the centre to avoid scaring middle-of-the-road voters by working with people described by some as leftist extremists

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Audi has all but completed negotiations with FC Bayern Munich to buy a 9.5 percent stake in the football club, according to a report in the online version of Stern magazine.
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The move should pour around 80 million into the clubs coffers, and has already been approved by the boards of both firms.

This would not only further improve the finances of the football champs, it would also further bind Audi to Germanys most successful soccer club. All that remains is for the deal to be signed and this should take place in the next few days, the magazine says.

The magazine also suggests that Audis owner Volkswagen would get a further seat on the FC Bayern board.

And side deals between Audi and FC Bayers other sponsors such as Adidas or Telekom. . Bayern is scheduled to play VfB Stuttgart on Saturday afternoon.

Bayern is currently ranked fifth in the Bundesliga , behind Bayer Leverkusen, Hamburg, Werder Bremen and Schalke 04.

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A cleaning lady working at a cinema got the fright of her life when she picked up a paper napkin from a seat and found it was wrapped around a hand grenade.
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The authorities evacuated around 800 guests still watching films in other parts of the Dusseldorf multiplex cinema after the cleaning lady and the security guard she took the grenade to, alerted the police. .

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A police investigation has been launched to try to find out who brought it into the cinema and why

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Three more people died of the AH1N1 virus in Germany on Friday, including for the first time, a person with no underlying health problems, authorities reported.
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Perhaps of most concern for the wider population is the death of a 48-year-old woman in Bonn, who died on Friday morning. . She had not suffered from any other health problems, according to a spokesman for the Bonn University Hospital, where she was treated in the intensive care unit before she died.

A 16-year-old boy also died on Friday, in the Augsburg Central Hospital, Bavaria.

A five-year-old boy from Saarbrucken died in the afternoon, yet the health authorities in the state added that he was severely disabled and had suffered lung problems before becoming infected with the so-called swine flu.

It would seem the number of reported and confirmed cases is increasing, with the Robert Koch Institute registering more than 25, 000 new cases between April and October 20. A report in the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper said he was severely disabled.

The countrys biggest ever vaccination programme started last Monday, in nearly all German states, initially for medical staff and other people considered particularly at risk. The number of deaths connected to the disease is now six in Germany.

Vaccine expert Michael Pfleiderer, from the Paul Ehrlich Institute, which manages vaccines for the government, says he expected that reluctance to get vaccinated to change quickly.

Ordinary citizens will soon be able to get themselves inoculated too, although a long debate about the safety of the vaccines on offer, and the generally mild effects of the disease, has left many people unwilling to do so.

New Health Minister Philipp Rsler said that he felt the seasonal flu to be currently more dangerous than swine flu.

I know the mood can change overnight, as it did in the USA, as soon as the number of those seriously ill rose, and the hospital beds became full, he told the weekly business magazine, Wirtschaftswoche.

Yet he said those people in high risk categories should follow the advice of the authorities and get themselves vaccinated against swine flu. He told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that he would first get himself vaccinated against the former, before protecting himself against the latter.

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France and Germany will join forces to choose a new-look European Unions first big boss, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday, sweeping Tony Blair towards the Brussels exit.
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The French head of state said he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had agreed to back the same candidate, adding that the pair shared the same vision for two new top jobs to be created under the Lisbon Treaty, and their favoured runners.

Confirmation that Berlin and Paris were collaborating on arguably the biggest appointment in the blocs history came in the wake of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown campaigning personally on behalf of Blair.

David Cameron, leader of the British Conservative Party, and widely tipped to oust Brown at the next general election, wrote a letter to Klaus spelling out his partys plan to hold a referendum on the treaty should they enter government.

And relations with the UK were further dented by an open attempt by Britains potential new leader to get the Czech president to delay ratifying the Lisbon Treaty something Vaclav Klaus has just been persuaded not to do.

The letter also seems to have been poorly timed, as Klaus, having secured his countrys exemption from a rights charter, to sign the treaty.

The British The Guardian newspaper reported that Sarkozy was incensed by the intervention, while Merkel was concerned by behaviour she considered untrustworthy.

I do not plan to impose any extra conditions, Klaus said in a statement.

Sarkozy, who said Lisbon could now enter force as early as December 1, would not reveal the identity of his and Merkels preferred choice, but said Europes George Washington, in reference to the founding US father, would need to be both charismatic and a consensus-builder.

This opens the way to presidential nominations.

The names in the first wave are not necessarily the winners in the end, he said.

Without naming Blair, Sarkozy hinted at longstanding problems with a mooted but never declared candidacy. .

Ironically, Sarkozy had been the first to suggest Blair as a contender - although he backtracked a couple of weeks ago citing a problem over a lack of British engagement with core EU policies.

And in an intriguing British twist, Browns Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, could become the most popular candidate.

And in an intriguing British twist, Browns Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, could become the most popular candidate.

Former Latvian head of state Vaira Vike-Freiberga, who would satisfy a lobby favouring a woman, and ex-Irish leader John Bruton are also declared runners, albeit with longer odds.

Dutch leader Jan Peter Balkenende is not officially a candidate, but on Friday suggested that this could change.

All eyes therefore, rest on Merkel.

But the other name in the ring, Juncker, was said by one diplomat to have launched the political equivalent of a suicide pact by going up against Blair.