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The man was thirty years old.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rail services were therefore suspended between Montpellier and N\u00eemes, on the conventional line, for around two hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013&nbsp;A tragic death delayed by a couple of hours this morning the arrival of European Parliament officials, who once a month travel between Brussels and Strasbourg (and vice versa), in what many view as a pointless waste of money serving only to preserve France\u2019s pride in hosting an EU institutional seat within its borders. 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