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Germans rush to stock up on fireworks as sales start ahead of NYE

NAMPA / DPA
2025-12-29
Berlin (dpa) - Shoppers in Germany rushed stores that opened at midnight to buy their supplies of fireworks for New Year's Eve, which can make some German cities sound like a war zone during turn-of-the-year celebrations. In Meppen in Lower Saxony's Emsland region, not far from the Dutch border, a long queue formed in front of a shop that opened early Monday. People with shopping trolleys could be seen waiting in the cold for the doors to open. I......
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