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By Anna Koper WARSAW (Reuters) -A far-right Polish lawmaker used a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles in the country’s parliament on Tuesday during an event with members of the Jewish community, provoking outrage and leading the speaker to exclude him from the sitting. The disruption came ahead of a key vote on whether to approve newly appointed pro-EU prime minister Donald Tusk. Footage posted on the website of private broadcaster TVN24 showed Grzegorz Braun of the Confederation party take the extinguisher before walking across the lobby of the parliament to where the candles were,…