Dozens of homes in central Berlin were evacuated ahead of the delicate operation to remove the bomb's mechanical fuse.
Nearly 840 people were evacuated from the central Berlin area, police said, before bomb disposal experts moved in to defuse the device.
"I'd immediately vote for a party that wants to abolish the euro, " said Freiberg, who has run a small business selling ink stamps in central Berlin for more than 40 years.
In the men's marathon in central Berlin at the start of the day, Abel Kirui and Emmanuel Mutai secured a Kenyan one-two with Kirui clocking a championship-record time of two hours six minutes and 55 seconds after a blistering first half around the city.
Police in New York pulled him off his Paris-bound flight and charged him with sexually assaulting a hotel chambermaid. (The charges were later dropped, and prosecutors said they doubted the maid's reliability.) An aide phoned Ms. Merkel at her central-Berlin home that Saturday and told her the news.
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Italy's difficulties are not unlike those faced by the countries of Central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The BBC's Central Europe analyst Jan Repa says that in Paris, Berlin and Brussels, the Kaczynskis tend to be seen as prickly, unsophisticated, provincial nationalists.
The committee added that the fall of the Berlin Wall had made EU membership possible for several Central and Eastern European countries, thereby opening a new era in European history.
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Revellers in the city centre greeted the new year by eating 12 grapes in time with the chimes at Madrid's central Puerta del Sol clock in a national tradition, while hundreds of thousands partied in Berlin to live music in the landmark Brandenburg Gate.
In 1885, the Congress of Berlin, hosted by Otto von Bismarck and attended by 15 nations, agreed on the partition of Central and East Africa.
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