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Kirsten Grieshaber

An employee of the consumer protection authority of Lower Saxony examines samples of sprouts from a farm in the Uelzen area in Oldenburg, northern Germany, Monday, June 6, 2011. In a surprising U-turn, German officials said the initial tests provided no evidence that sprouts from an organic farm in northern Germany were the cause of the country's deadly E. coli outbreak. The Lower-Saxony state agriculture ministry said 23 of 40 samples from the sprout farm suspected of being behind the outbreak have tested negative for the highly aggressive, "super-toxic" strain of E. coli bacteria. It said tests were still under way on the other 17 sprout samples. (AP Photo/dapd, Markus Hibbeler) (AP)

2 new E. coli deaths as EU holds emergency meeting

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Bean sprouts likely cause of E. coli outbreak

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A young Knut during his debut at the Berlin Zoo on March 23, 2007

Beloved polar bear Knut has died

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FILE- In this file photo dated Friday Jan. 28, 2011, provided by Greenpeace, showing Daniel Domscheit-Berg during a news conference in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Domscheit-Berg is about to publish a book it is announced Monday Feb. 7, 2011, giving his insider account about secret spilling website WikiLeaks, entitled "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website". Daniel Domscheit-Berg is the former spokesman for WikiLeaks, but left the site dramatically in September 2010 because of a differences of opinion with founder Julian Assange. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Markus Forte, file) NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT, EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Assange portrayed as “emperor” in insider book

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Germany offers program for extremists to quit

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