Nurses Naomi Balzan and Nanette Azzopardi administer pain killers and sedatives to Rebecca Zammit Lupi, a 15-year-old cancer patient, as her mother Marisa Ford looks on, shortly before she passed away in her room in Rainbow Ward at Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre in Mater Dei Hospital, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tal-Qroqq, Malta January 3, 2021. This was the last photograph Reuters photographer Darrin Zammit Lupi took of his daughter while she was still alive - she passed away 57 minutes later. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi SEARCH "REBECCA LUPI" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES THE IMAGES SHOULD ONLY BE USED TOGETHER WITH THE STORY - NO STAND-ALONE USES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

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Soccer Football - French Cup - Round of 16 - Sedan v Angers - Stade Louis Dugauguez, Sedan, France - April 7, 2021 Members of staff place cardboard figures with photos of football fans in the stands before the match REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

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A Kinemetrics EpiSensor Model FBA ES-T accelerometer is seen in the opened earth shaft of a seismic station of the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland January 14, 2021. Picture taken January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

A Kinemetrics EpiSensor Model FBA ES-T accelerometer is seen in the opened earth shaft of a seismic station of the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland January 14, 2021. Picture taken January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

View of the opened earth shaft of a seismic station of the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland January 14, 2021. Picture taken January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Several displays show an overview of seismic stations in Switzerland at the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland January 14, 2021. Picture taken January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Stickers are seen on a box containing a mobile seismic station at the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland January 14, 2021. Picture taken January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Inner workings of a Streckeisen broadband seismometer are seen at the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland January 14, 2021. Picture taken January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Technical equipment is seen at the seismic observatory Degenried of the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland January 14, 2021. Picture taken January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Streckeisen broadband seismometers are stored on a rack at the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland January 14, 2021. Picture taken January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Streckeisen broadband seismometers are stored on a rack at the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland January 14, 2021. Picture taken January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Senior researcher Federica Lanza looks on Swiss seismic stations shown on several displays at the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland January 14, 2021. Picture taken January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

A researcher checks a Streckeisen broadband seismometer at the seismic observatory Degenried of the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland January 14, 2021. Picture taken January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Boxes containing mobile seismic stations sit in a storage room at the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland January 14, 2021. Picture taken January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

A Kinemetrics EpiSensor Model FBA ES-T accelerometer is seen beside the inner life of a Streckeisen broadband seismometer at the Swiss Seismological Service at ETH Zurich in Switzerland January 14, 2021. Picture taken January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

A Kinemetrics EpiSensor Model FBA ES-T accelerometer is seen at the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland January 14, 2021. Picture taken January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

A Streckeisen broadband seismometer is seen at the seismic observatory Degenried of the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland January 14, 2021. Picture taken January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Researchers open the earth shaft of a seismic station of the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland January 14, 2021. Picture taken January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

A Kinemetrics EpiSensor Model FBA ES-T accelerometer is seen in the opened earth shaft of a seismic station of the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland January 14, 2021. Picture taken January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Drugs including short-acting hypnotic-sedative Midazolam are seen during a training for new staff to reinforce ICU regular crews who face a second wave of patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the university hospital of Strasbourg, France, November 13, 2020. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

Supporters of the Free German Youth (FDJ), formerly the official youth movement of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the East German Communist Party SED hold their flags during a demonstration "30 years are enough - revolution and socialism" in Berlin, Germany, October 3, 2020, as the country celebrates the 30th anniversary of the German reunification. REUTERS/Joachim Herrmann

Supporters of the Free German Youth (FDJ), formerly the official youth movement of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the East German Communist Party SED hold their flags during a demonstration "30 years are enough - revolution and socialism" in Berlin, Germany, October 3, 2020, as the country celebrates the 30th anniversary of the German reunification. REUTERS/Joachim Herrmann

Supporters of the Free German Youth (FDJ), formerly the official youth movement of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the East German Communist Party SED hold their flags during a demonstration "30 years are enough - revolution and socialism" in Berlin, Germany, October 3, 2020, as the country celebrates the 30th anniversary of the German reunification. REUTERS/Joachim Herrmann

A supporter of the Free German Youth (FDJ), formerly the official youth movement of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the East German Communist Party SED, carries a GDR flag during a demonstration with the slogan "30 years are enough - revolution and socialism" in Berlin, Germany, October 3, 2020, as the country celebrates the 30th anniversary of the German reunification. REUTERS/Joachim Herrmann

A male lion looks on after it was shot with sedative by a vet at the local zoo in Fier, Albania October 28, 2018. Picture taken October 28, 2018. REUTERS/Florion Goga

A welfare activist checks a lion after a shot with sedative, at the local zoo in Fier, Albania October 28, 2018. Picture taken October 28, 2018. REUTERS/Florion Goga

Welfare activists shoot sedative on a lion at the local zoo in Fier, Albania October 28, 2018. Picture taken October 28, 2018. REUTERS/Florion Goga

A penitent of La Sed brotherhood walks past an electoral poster of Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) leader and current Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain April 17, 2019. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo

A penitent of La Sed brotherhood walks past an electoral poster of Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) leader and current Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain April 17, 2019. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo

Prime Minister David Cameron visits the Sed El Boucrieh School with Lebanese Education minister, Mr Elias Bou Saab, in Beirut, Lebanon, September 14, 2015. . British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Beirut on Monday to visit refugees from the war in neighbouring Syria, which has driven well over a million people into Lebanon and tens of thousands towards Europe, Lebanese media reported. Cameron will visit refugees and then meet with his Lebanese counterpart Tammam Salam. Lebanon, where one in every four people is a refugee, is hosting the greatest number of refugees per capita of any country in the world. It has called on other countries to share the burden. REUTERS/Stefan Rousseau/Pool

Prime Minister David Cameron visits the Sed El Boucrieh School with Lebanese Education minister, Mr Elias Bou Saab, in Beirut, Lebanon, September 14, 2015. . British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Beirut on Monday to visit refugees from the war in neighbouring Syria, which has driven well over a million people into Lebanon and tens of thousands towards Europe, Lebanese media reported. Cameron will visit refugees and then meet with his Lebanese counterpart Tammam Salam. Lebanon, where one in every four people is a refugee, is hosting the greatest number of refugees per capita of any country in the world. It has called on other countries to share the burden. REUTERS/Stefan Rousseau/Pool

Prime Minister David Cameron visits the Sed El Boucrieh School with Lebanese Education minister, Mr Elias Bou Saab, in Beirut, Lebanon, September 14, 2015. . British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Beirut on Monday to visit refugees from the war in neighbouring Syria, which has driven well over a million people into Lebanon and tens of thousands towards Europe, Lebanese media reported. Cameron will visit refugees and then meet with his Lebanese counterpart Tammam Salam. Lebanon, where one in every four people is a refugee, is hosting the greatest number of refugees per capita of any country in the world. It has called on other countries to share the burden. REUTERS/Stefan Rousseau/Pool

Prime Minister David Cameron visits the Sed El Boucrieh School with Lebanese Education minister, Mr Elias Bou Saab, in Beirut, Lebanon, September 14, 2015. . British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Beirut on Monday to visit refugees from the war in neighbouring Syria, which has driven well over a million people into Lebanon and tens of thousands towards Europe, Lebanese media reported. Cameron will visit refugees and then meet with his Lebanese counterpart Tammam Salam. Lebanon, where one in every four people is a refugee, is hosting the greatest number of refugees per capita of any country in the world. It has called on other countries to share the burden. REUTERS/Stefan Rousseau/Pool

Prime Minister David Cameron visits the Sed El Boucrieh School with Lebanese Education minister, Mr Elias Bou Saab, in Beirut, Lebanon, September 14, 2015. . British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Beirut on Monday to visit refugees from the war in neighbouring Syria, which has driven well over a million people into Lebanon and tens of thousands towards Europe, Lebanese media reported. Cameron will visit refugees and then meet with his Lebanese counterpart Tammam Salam. Lebanon, where one in every four people is a refugee, is hosting the greatest number of refugees per capita of any country in the world. It has called on other countries to share the burden. REUTERS/Stefan Rousseau/Pool

General view of the Justizanstalt Wien-Josefstadt prison in Vienna February 27, 2015. Sedatives have been found in the body of Rakhat Aliyev, a prominent Kazakh dissident found hanged in the prison this week in what authorities say was suicide. An initial toxicological test on Aliyev showed traces of barbiturates, a spokeswoman for prosecutors in Vienna said, stressing it may take days for the final autopsy report to come through. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader (AUSTRIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS)

Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) acknowledges his wife prior to deputies voting for a new Thuringia state premier in parliament in Erfurt December 5, 2014. The reform communist Left party took power in a German state on Friday for the first time since reunification, ending a quarter century of conservative rule in Thuringia and raising the chance of a left-wing threat to Angela Merkel in the next federal vote. The Left, which traces its roots to the Socialist Unity Party (SED) that once ruled East Germany and built the Berlin Wall, will run the state southwest of Berlin with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a three-way coalition. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) blows a kiss to his wife prior to deputies voting for a new Thuringia state premier in parliament in Erfurt December 5, 2014. The reform communist Left party took power in a German state on Friday for the first time since reunification, ending a quarter century of conservative rule in Thuringia and raising the chance of a left-wing threat to Angela Merkel in the next federal vote. The Left, which traces its roots to the Socialist Unity Party (SED) that once ruled East Germany and built the Berlin Wall, will run the state southwest of Berlin with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a three-way coalition. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Bodo Ramelow (6th R) of the Left party (Die Linke) poses with his cabinet following a news conference after becoming the new Thuringia state premier, in Erfurt December 5, 2014. The reform communist Left party took power in a German state on Friday for the first time since reunification, ending a quarter century of conservative rule in Thuringia and raising the chance of a left-wing threat to Angela Merkel in the next federal vote. The Left, which traces its roots to the Socialist Unity Party (SED) that once ruled East Germany and built the Berlin Wall, will run the state southwest of Berlin with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a three-way coalition. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) gives a news conference after becoming the new Thuringia state premier, in Erfurt December 5, 2014. The reform communist Left party took power in a German state on Friday for the first time since reunification, ending a quarter century of conservative rule in Thuringia and raising the chance of a left-wing threat to Angela Merkel in the next federal vote. The Left, which traces its roots to the Socialist Unity Party (SED) that once ruled East Germany and built the Berlin Wall, will run the state southwest of Berlin with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a three-way coalition. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS HEADSHOT)

Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) arrives for a news conference after becoming the new Thuringia state premier, in Erfurt December 5, 2014. The reform communist Left party took power in a German state on Friday for the first time since reunification, ending a quarter century of conservative rule in Thuringia and raising the chance of a left-wing threat to Angela Merkel in the next federal vote. The Left, which traces its roots to the Socialist Unity Party (SED) that once ruled East Germany and built the Berlin Wall, will run the state southwest of Berlin with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a three-way coalition. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) gives a news conference after becoming the new Thuringia state premier, in Erfurt December 5, 2014. The reform communist Left party took power in a German state on Friday for the first time since reunification, ending a quarter century of conservative rule in Thuringia and raising the chance of a left-wing threat to Angela Merkel in the next federal vote. The Left, which traces its roots to the Socialist Unity Party (SED) that once ruled East Germany and built the Berlin Wall, will run the state southwest of Berlin with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a three-way coalition. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) arrives for a news conference after becoming the new Thuringia state premier, in Erfurt December 5, 2014. The reform communist Left party took power in a German state on Friday for the first time since reunification, ending a quarter century of conservative rule in Thuringia and raising the chance of a left-wing threat to Angela Merkel in the next federal vote. The Left, which traces its roots to the Socialist Unity Party (SED) that once ruled East Germany and built the Berlin Wall, will run the state southwest of Berlin with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a three-way coalition. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

A military hat and document folder of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) sit on a table after Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) became the new Thuringia state premier, in parliament in Erfurt December 5, 2014.The reform communist Left party won control of a German state on Friday for the first time since the end of the Cold War when the regional assembly in Thuringia elected the Left's Bodo Ramelow as state premier. The Left party, which traces its roots to Erich Honecker's Socialist Unity Party (SED) that built the Berlin Wall, will rule the sparsely populated state with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a new three-way coalition. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Stephan Brandner of Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) holds a military hat and document folder of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) after Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) became the new Thuringia state premier, in parliament in Erfurt December 5, 2014.The reform communist Left party won control of a German state on Friday for the first time since the end of the Cold War when the regional assembly in Thuringia elected the Left's Bodo Ramelow as state premier. The Left party, which traces its roots to Erich Honecker's Socialist Unity Party (SED) that built the Berlin Wall, will rule the sparsely populated state with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a new three-way coalition. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Stephan Brandner of Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) holds up a military hat and document folder of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) after Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) became the new Thuringia state premier, in parliament in Erfurt December 5, 2014.The reform communist Left party won control of a German state on Friday for the first time since the end of the Cold War when the regional assembly in Thuringia elected the Left's Bodo Ramelow as state premier. The Left party, which traces its roots to Erich Honecker's Socialist Unity Party (SED) that built the Berlin Wall, will rule the sparsely populated state with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a new three-way coalition. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) is presented with flowers after becoming the new Thuringia state premier, in parliament in Erfurt December 5, 2014.The reform communist Left party won control of a German state on Friday for the first time since the end of the Cold War when the regional assembly in Thuringia elected the Left's Bodo Ramelow as state premier. The Left party, which traces its roots to Erich Honecker's Socialist Unity Party (SED) that built the Berlin Wall, will rule the sparsely populated state with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a new three-way coalition. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Germana Alberti vom Hofe, wife of Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) waves from the balcony of parliament prior to deputies voting for a new Thuringia state premier, in Erfurt December 5, 2014. The reform communist Left party won control of a German state on Friday for the first time since the end of the Cold War when the regional assembly in Thuringia elected the Left's Bodo Ramelow as state premier. The Left party, which traces its roots to Erich Honecker's Socialist Unity Party (SED) that built the Berlin Wall, will rule the sparsely populated state with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a new three-way coalition. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke is sworn-in as the new Thuringia state premier, in parliament in Erfurt December 5, 2014.The reform communist Left party won control of a German state on Friday for the first time since the end of the Cold War when the regional assembly in Thuringia elected the Left's Bodo Ramelow as state premier. The Left party, which traces its roots to Erich Honecker's Socialist Unity Party (SED) that built the Berlin Wall, will rule the sparsely populated state with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a new three-way coalition. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Christine Lieberknecht (R) State Premier of Thuringia walks past Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) to cast her vote in elections for a new state premier in parliament in Erfurt December 5, 2014. The reform communist Left party won control of a German state on Friday for the first time since the end of the Cold War when the regional assembly in Thuringia elected the Left's Bodo Ramelow as state premier. The Left party, which traces its roots to Erich Honecker's Socialist Unity Party (SED) that built the Berlin Wall, will rule the sparsely populated state with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a new three-way coalition. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) is congratulated by Christine Lieberknecht (R) former state premier of Thuringia, after succeeding her, in parliament in Erfurt December 5, 2014.The reform communist Left party won control of a German state on Friday for the first time since the end of the Cold War when the regional assembly in Thuringia elected the Left's Bodo Ramelow as state premier. The Left party, which traces its roots to Erich Honecker's Socialist Unity Party (SED) that built the Berlin Wall, will rule the sparsely populated state with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a new three-way coalition. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) gives a speech after being sworn-in as the new Thuringia state premier, in parliament in Erfurt December 5, 2014.The reform communist Left party won control of a German state on Friday for the first time since the end of the Cold War when the regional assembly in Thuringia elected the Left's Bodo Ramelow as state premier. The Left party, which traces its roots to Erich Honecker's Socialist Unity Party (SED) that built the Berlin Wall, will rule the sparsely populated state with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a new three-way coalition. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

General view of Thuringia state parliamant after Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) become the new state premier, in Erfurt December 5, 2014.The reform communist Left party won control of a German state on Friday for the first time since the end of the Cold War when the regional assembly in Thuringia elected the Left's Bodo Ramelow as state premier. The Left party, which traces its roots to Erich Honecker's Socialist Unity Party (SED) that built the Berlin Wall, will rule the sparsely populated state with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a new three-way coalition. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) receives flowers after becoming the new Thuringia state premier, in parliament in Erfurt December 5, 2014.The reform communist Left party won control of a German state on Friday for the first time since the end of the Cold War when the regional assembly in Thuringia elected the Left's Bodo Ramelow as state premier. The Left party, which traces its roots to Erich Honecker's Socialist Unity Party (SED) that built the Berlin Wall, will rule the sparsely populated state with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a new three-way coalition. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke is sworn-in as the new Thuringia state premier, in parliament in Erfurt December 5, 2014.The reform communist Left party won control of a German state on Friday for the first time since the end of the Cold War when the regional assembly in Thuringia elected the Left's Bodo Ramelow as state premier. The Left party, which traces its roots to Erich Honecker's Socialist Unity Party (SED) that built the Berlin Wall, will rule the sparsely populated state with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a new three-way coalition. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) gives a speech after being sworn-in as the new Thuringia state premier, in parliament in Erfurt December 5, 2014.The reform communist Left party won control of a German state on Friday for the first time since the end of the Cold War when the regional assembly in Thuringia elected the Left's Bodo Ramelow as state premier. The Left party, which traces its roots to Erich Honecker's Socialist Unity Party (SED) that built the Berlin Wall, will rule the sparsely populated state with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a new three-way coalition. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke is sworn-in as the new Thuringia state premier, in parliament in Erfurt December 5, 2014.The reform communist Left party won control of a German state on Friday for the first time since the end of the Cold War when the regional assembly in Thuringia elected the Left's Bodo Ramelow as state premier. The Left party, which traces its roots to Erich Honecker's Socialist Unity Party (SED) that built the Berlin Wall, will rule the sparsely populated state with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a new three-way coalition. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Bodo Ramelow (2nd R) of the Left party (Die Linke) is congratulated by Christine Lieberknecht, former state premier of Thuringia, after succeeding her, in parliament in Erfurt December 5, 2014.The reform communist Left party won control of a German state on Friday for the first time since the end of the Cold War when the regional assembly in Thuringia elected the Left's Bodo Ramelow as state premier. The Left party, which traces its roots to Erich Honecker's Socialist Unity Party (SED) that built the Berlin Wall, will rule the sparsely populated state with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in a new three-way coalition. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)