Berlin: Angela Merkel headed off a rebellion from her own Christian Democrat party on Monday when she pledged to reduce the number of refugees in Germany. In a defiant speech to her party conference, the German chancellor defended her controversial policy, claiming it had been a "humanitarian imperative" at the height of the migrant crisis. But she said the time had come to "reduce the number of refugees appreciably" before Germany was "overwhelmed". Mrs Merkel was...
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