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Despite massive international criticism of the UK government’s planned asylum pact with Rwanda, some German lawmakers from the liberal-conservative Free Democrats (FDP) are calling Germany to strike a similar deal. “I think it would be right for us to consider carrying out asylum procedures in third countries outside Europe,” the leader of the FDP’s faction in German parliament, Christian Dürr, told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper. “With a legally secure regulation, we could create clarity about the protection status and prevent people without prospects of staying from embarking on the dan…