Germany faces political limbo after tight vote

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany headed for weeks of political uncertainty after a knife-edge general election gave Angela Merkel's conservatives a victory so narrow that Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder refused to concede defeat.
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