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Germany: Nationwide warning test fails in some places

by Associated Press
| September 10, 2020 8:27 AM

BERLIN (AP) — People in Germany braced themselves for shrieking sirens Thursday morning but instead got deafening silence in many places as the first test of the nationwide warning system in 30 years proved widely a failure and punctured the country's infamous image of efficiency.

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