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BERLIN: Tributes are pouring in from around the world to Helmut Kohl, the imposing German chancellor whose reunification of a nation divided by the Cold War put Germany at the heart of a united Europe. He died on Friday at his home in Ludwigshafen at age 87.

"A life has ended and the person who lived it will go down in history" said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking from Rome. "It will take some time, however, until we can truly judge what we have lost in him. Helmut Kohl was a great German