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By Tom Sims FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Frank-Walter Steinmeier was elected to a second term as Germany’s president on Sunday as a special assembly voted the veteran politician, seen as a symbol of consensus and continuity, back in to the prominent yet largely ceremonial post. Steinmeier’s election by secret ballot by a majority of the assembly for another five years was widely expected, amid broad support from most of Germany’s major parties during a time of global turmoil and following a recent change of government. Chancellor Olaf Scholz, noting the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine crisis, called…