BERLIN — The Latest on disputes within German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government (all times local):

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Some media in Germany have briefly fallen for a hoax tweet announcing that Interior Minister Horst Seehofer had broken up his Bavarian party’s decades-old alliance with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in a dispute over migration.

A Twitter account that resembled a local broadcaster’s said Hesse state governor Volker Bouffier, a senior member of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, had said in an internal email that Seehofer was dissolving the alliance.

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