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The German city of Cologne has begun its largest bomb-related evacuation since 1945 after the discovery of three US World War II bombs. A large part of the city centre is being closed off so that the ...

The German city of Cologne has finished evacuating 20,500 people, its largest evacuation order since World War II, after officials defused three massive, unexploded bombs. The American bombs – two ...

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