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Germany: Namibians find suspicious bag in airport

An Air Berlin flight from Namibia was delayed after police found a bag with a fuse in the luggage hall of the airport in the southern African nation's capital, German and Namibian authorities said Thursday.Authorities in Windhoek, Namibia, were investigating whether the device found Wednesday morning could have exploded. But Air Berlin spokeswoman Sabine Teller said no explosives were found in the bag.A scan showed batteries attached by wires to a fuse and a clock, Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office said.The incident came as Germany already was on edge after German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere raised the country's terrorist threat level on Wednesday, saying intelligence services had received a tip from an unspecified country about a suspected attack planned for the end of November.Concern about the possibility of international flights being targeted by terrorists rose last month when two mail bombs were discovered while being sent on cargo planes from Yemen to the U.S. On...

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