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Berlin : A far-right German MP is under police investigation over inflammatory anti-Muslim comments she made on social media on New Years Eve, the media reported on Tuesday. The Twitter account of Beatrix von Storch, deputy leader of Germany's AfD party, was temporarily suspended on Monday, but she was later posting again on the site, reports the Guardian. Von Storch, whose grandfather served as finance minister under Hitler, accused Cologne police of appeasing "barbaric, gang-raping Muslim hordes of men" after they tweeted a New Year message in Arabic. The police also...