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The Taliban are obstructing efforts by the German government to evacuate former Afghan workers and other individuals at risk of persecution under the new regime, according to a report by Der Spiegel magazine. The emergency plan for thousands of former local staff of German institutions, political activists and artists in Afghanistan is stalled due to ever new harassments by the militants, the report published on Sunday said, citing internal numbers from the Foreign Office. While Berlin succeeded in bringing 1,044 Afghans to Germany in July, a total of 7,700 people were initially supposed to be…