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US presidential hopeful Barack Obama kicked off on Thursday a European tour in Berlin, which was ready to give him a rapturous welcome amid a yearning on the continent for change in Washington.
Obama was to meet German chancellor Angela Merkel and foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier before making a foreign policy speech in front of an expected crowd of tens of thousands.
"He is awaited like a magician who can clear away the clouds of a troubled world," the influential German newsmagazine Der Spiegel said in a cover story. "Obama is the hope of a western world with a lot of worries..."
