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A striking coal miner places a burning tire onto a barricade on the A-66 motorway to protest the government's spending cuts in the mining sector, in Campomanes, near Oviedo, northern Spain, May 29, 2012. Spain's economy is contracting for the second time since late 2009 and four years of stagnation and recession have pushed unemployment above 24 percent, the highest rate in the European Union. REUTERS/Eloy Alonso

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BERLIN | Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:32am EDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday there were signs of irregularities in Iran's presidential election and urged a transparent examination of the results.

Speaking at a joint news conference with Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Merkel said Germany was "very worried" about developments since the Iranian election and condemned a "wave of arrests" by the government.

"There are signs of irregularities," she said.

(Reporting by Andreas Moeser; Writing by Noah Barkin)
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