Germany adds brown coal to energy exit under landmark deal
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is set to become the first country to drop both nuclear and coal power under a landmark agreement to compensate workers, companies and regional governments as it switches off brown coal-fired plants by 2038.The government struck a deal worth more than 40 billion euros (£34 billion) in the small hours of Thursday morning with the premiers of Germany's coal-mining regions.Once the heartland of Germany industry, the coal regions of North-Rhine Westphalia have fallen on..