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Jul 4th, 2011
(AFP/File) - A woman enters a branch of Germany's federal Labour Agency, in the southern German city of Nuremberg. The agency plans on cutting some 10,000 jobs because of falling unemployment, its chief executive told Monday's edition of Bild newspaper.(AFP/File/Christof Stache) -
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