Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia

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The head of the Conservatives, Chancellor Karl Nehammer, said his party and the Social Democrats had failed to agree on key issues. He said he would resign as Chancellor and party leader in the coming days. The far-right Freedom Party, the FPO, won the general election in September, but Mr Nehammer and the other parties had ruled out forming a coalition with the FPO leader, Herbert Kickle.