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King Abdullah II of Jordan will travel to Germany on Sunday to undergo surgery, according to the country’s official news agency Petra. The monarch will undergo surgery on a slipped disc in his spinal column at a hospital in Frankfurt this week, the agency added. The 60-year-old king suffers intermittent pains in the spinal column due to parachuting during his service in the elite Special Forces, according to the agency. The pains have recently increased, prompting an urgent surgery upon doctors’ advice, it said. The monarch will rest for about one week after the operation before his return to …