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The US electric car manufacturer Tesla said on Wednesday evening that production at its suburban Berlin factory will stop until the end of next week following an attack on its power supply. Perpetrators set fire to an electricity pylon in a field in Gosen-Neu Zittau near the Tesla factory in Grünheide on Tuesday, knocking out power in the factory, halting production and forcing the plant to be evacuated. Tens of thousands of residents in the region were also affected by the power outage. A letter from a left-wing extremist group confessing to the attack was received by the German state police …