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Germany reinstates border controls to slow refugee influx

Germany reintroduced border controls on Sunday after admitting it could no longer cope with a record influx of migrants, tightening the screws ahead of a key EU meeting on spreading the burden of the refugee crisis across the bloc.

Within hours of Berlin's shock announcement German officers began carrying out the first passport checks near the border with Austria.

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