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Germany expands border controls as right pressures government on migration

A German police officer stops a bus at the French border as Berlin imposes new border control measures in all of its neighbouring nine Schengen zone countries [Joachim Herrmann/Reuters]

Germany has expanded border control measures, with the crossings to all nine of its neighbouring countries now being checked.

The checks, implemented on Monday in what the government said last week are a bid to to curb entry of undocumented migrants, are due to last six months.

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