Germany upgrades security stance to 'high threat level', interior minister tells paper

FRANKFURT, July 18 (Reuters) - Germany is upgrading its security stance to a "high threat level" from a previous"abstract threat level" based on increasing reports and intelligence, the country's Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said in a German newspaper interview published on Saturday.• "This means that the risk of attacks must be reckoned with at all times in Germany," he was quoted as telling Welt am Sonntag.• “Plans for attacks against our country are clearly discernible,” he added.• He cited risks to German infrastructure, individuals and institutions.