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By Patrick Donahue, Rainer Buergin, and Arne Delfs

November 2, 2015 at 2:49 PM UTC

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November 3, 2015 at 9:49 AM UTC

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel refused to bow to pressure to close borders as she faced down dissenters within her governing coalition over how to tackle the country’s biggest influx of migrants since World War II.

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