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BERLIN: The leader of Chan­cellor Angela Merkel’s junior coalition partner, the SPD, announced her resignation on Sunday from her party’s top jobs, raising the possibility that Germany’s emba­t­tled government could collapse. Andrea Nahles, who heads the centre-left Social Democ­ratic Party (SPD), has come under intense pressure after voters handed the party its worst European election results a week ago. The …

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