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Germany holds security meeting over explosive drone amid Russia protest

A bomb disposal robot was deployed to assess the explosive-laden drone. (Photo: AFP)

BERLIN - Chancellor Friedrich Merz convened Germany's national security council Friday to discuss an explosive-laden drone found near a Ukrainian cargo plane and the mid-air collision of another aircraft with an unidentified object this week.

While Germany has not blamed anyone for the incident at Leipzig-Halle airport in the early hours of Wednesday, the Russian embassy in Berlin called the discovery a deliberate "provocation" set up to blame Moscow.

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