New bullet train connects Paris and Berlin

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The first-ever direct, daily bullet train is now running between Paris and Berlin. At roughly eight hours a trip, the new service is more than four times longer than a flight between the two capital cities, but it’s being hailed as a symbol of French-German friendship. The World’s Jeremy Siegel reports.

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