BERLIN: German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said Thursday (Aug 29) that the government would toughen knife controls and curb benefits for some illegal migrants in response to a recent stabbing linked to Islamic State . Three people were killed and eight others injured at a festival in the western city of Solingen on Friday, in an attack allegedly carried out by a 26-year-old Syrian man with ties to the Islamic State group. The knife attack has inflamed the debate over immigration in Germany

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