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by Our Foreign Desk
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday that she would stick to her course over Europe’s refugee crisis after state elections registered a rise in backing for the xenophobic Alliance for Germany (AfD).
Ms Merkel acknowledged that Sunday’s three state elections, which produced painful losses for her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), had been dominated by the migrant issue.
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