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 German Chancellor Angela Merkel ruled out military intervention in the dispute with Russia over Ukraine and said she was counting on a diplomatic resolution to the conflict.

In a speech to about 1,200 people on Wednesday in Frankfurt, Germany's financial capital, Merkel said the lessons of two world wars in the last century could not be forgotten.

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