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German officials have denied a report by the Bild daily that says the country expects up to 1.5 million asylum seekers this year. Nathan Frandino reports.
Germany is stepping up deportations of asylum seekers from Albania and other Balkan nations to help make way for people fleeing civil war in Syria. Vanessa Johnston reports.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Kosovo citizens who apply for asylum in her country can rate their chances of acceptance "as good as none". Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
"Our world has changed, Germany has changed, the Jewish state was reborn, but we know that the calls for the annihilation of our people have not stopped, " says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his visit to the Track 17 memorial in Berlin with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, which remembers the thousands of Jews who were deported from this train platform during the Holocaust. SOUNDBITE
People walk up the stairs of a plane which is set to take UK asylum seekers to Rwanda, as part of a controversial policy to send those who comes to the UK illegally to the African country for processing and resettlement. Only six people are now due to be deported because of legal challenges and reviews of cases -- well down on the 130 initially envisaged by the authorities. IMAGES
A plane thought to be the one bound for Kigali as part of the UK government's controversial policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda waits at the Boscombe Down military air field. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss insisted the first flight to Kigali, believed to be operated by Spanish charter firm Privilege Style, would take off, no matter how many people were on board. Only seven people are now due to be deported because of legal challenges and reviews of their cases -- well down on the 130 initially envisaged by the authorities. IMAGES
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