Merkel, Steinmeier in final push for German votes

Merkel told a rally in Berlin, hours after arriving on an overnight flight from a G20 summit in Pittsburgh, that her conservatives must use the final campaign hours to convince the one-third of voters who pollsters say have yet to make up their minds.

“Every vote counts,” said Merkel, 55, Germany's first woman chancellor and the only one to have grown up in communist East Germany.

Security has been tight after a series of al Qaeda videos this week threatening a “rude awakening” for Germany if voters back a government that supports keeping troops in Afghanistan, where 4,200 Germans are stationed with NATO-led forces.

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