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Key Angela Merkel ally to quit over asylum seeker row

Angela Merkel is facing a new crisis as party sources revealed her interior minister Horst Seehofer will resign over the chancellor's asylum policy.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, speaks with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, right, as they pose for a group photo at an informal EU summit on migration at EU headquarters in Brussels, Sunday, June 24, 2018.
The leaders of Germany, France and about a dozen other European Union nations converged on Brussels to talk migration. Source: AAP

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