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* Nord Stream 2 pipeline could be repurposed for hydrogen * Russia looking at green future planned by key customer (Adds details from conference) FRANKFURT, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Germany is in close communication with Russia about the potential of “green” hydrogen production and transport, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said at a Russian-German conference. Altmaier said in the webcast that Russia could work with Germany in the production and transport of green hydrogen that Germany hopes to develop on a large scale by sending renewable power from wind and sunshine through electrolysis to ma...

By Reuters Staff (Adds Austrian pledge to take intensive-care patients) BERLIN, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Germany’s military will send medical staff and equipment to Portugal, where space in hospital intensive care units is running out after a surge in coronavirus infections, the defence ministry in Berlin said on Sunday. Portugal, which said on Saturday that only seven of 850 ICU beds set up for COVID-19 cases on its mainland were vacant, had asked the German government for help. “We will support Portugal with medical staff and equipment,” a defence ministry spokesman told Reuters, adding tha...