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A former member of East Germany’s infamous domestic spy agency, the Stasi, is to stand trial for the murder of a Polish national at the border of divided Berlin nearly 50 years ago. The Berlin Regional Court has admitted a charge against a now 79-year-old man from the eastern city of Leipzig, a court spokeswoman told dpa. The Berlin public prosecutor’s office announced in mid-October that it had brought charges against the former Stasi employee. He is alleged to have shot a Polish national in East Berlin at the former Friedrichstrasse railway station border crossing on March 29, 1974. Accordin…