After backlash, Germany’s Merkel ditches stricter Easter lockdown

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BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel ditched a plan agreed on Tuesday for an extended Easter holiday to try to break a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, apologizing to lockdown-weary Germans after the hastily-conceived plan triggered a backlash. At talks that ran into the early hours of Tuesday, Merkel and the leaders of Germany’s 16 […]

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