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17/09/2017 GMT

Elections in Germany

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Campaign in final week in Germany; America's opioid crisis; high price for Qatar blockade

Final week of campaigning in Germany; overdosing on prescription opioids and heroine over doses kill 33,000 people a year; Qatar spends 38 billion dollars in three months to prop up its economy in the face of an effective land-blockade by its neighbours

(Image: Campaign billboards showing German Chancellor Angela Merkel and candidate, Martin Schulz, in Bergen, Germany. Credit: Getty Images)

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