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| Merkel rules out migrant policy reversal after attacks | |
| (35 minutes later) | |
| German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended her policies on refugees in the wake of recent terror attacks. | |
| Some of the attacks were by asylum seekers who she said had "shamed the country that welcomed them". | |
| She said those fleeing persecution and war had a right to be protected. | |
| Mrs Merkel proposed new measures on information sharing, deciphering web chatter, tackling arms sales on the internet and improving security responses to attacks. | |
| Two recent attacks in Bavaria were both by asylum seekers. A suicide bomb attack in Ansbach on Sunday that injured 15 people was carried out by a Syrian who had been denied asylum but given temporary leave to stay. | |
| An axe and knife attack on a train in Wuerzburg on 18 July was carried out by an asylum seeker from Afghanistan. | |
| Both men had claimed allegiance to so-called Islamic State. | |
| The deadliest attack - in Munich on 22 July which left nine dead - was carried out by a German teenager of Iranian extraction but was not jihadist-related. | |
| What is going on in Germany? | |
| Ansbach attacker: From asylum seeker to IS suicide bomber | |
| What drives individuals to commit mass killings? | |
| Mrs Merkel said Germany would "stick to our principles" in giving shelter to the deserved. | |
| She said the attacks had shown the "taboos of civilisation" had been broken. | |
| The attacks in Germany, along with those recently in Nice and Rouen in France, were intended to "spread fear and hatred between cultures and between religions", Mrs Merkel said. | |
| Speaking in Berlin, Mrs Merkel said that "besides organised terrorist attacks, there will be new threats from perpetrators not known to security personnel". | |
| To counter this, she said: "We need an early alert system so that authorities can see during the asylum request proceedings where there are problems." | |
| Mrs Merkel added: "We will take the necessary measures and ensure security for our citizens. We will take the challenge of integration very seriously." | |
| Seven deadly days | |
| A week of bloody attacks has frayed nerves in Germany, which led the way in accepting asylum seekers from Syria. To date, two of the attacks have been linked to a militant group: | |
| Germans shaken by violence | |
| German media on the attacks | |
| WATCH: 'We must fight hate with love' |