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French elections: centrist Bayrou offers alliance with Macron
Ms Le Pen said: "I clearly explained that in the political picture the least bad option is the politically realistic. The highest Sunni authority didn't have this requirement, but it doesn't matter", she said. Lebanon has some 1.5 million Syrian refugees. Le Pen's two-day visit to France's former colony has been seen as a way to boost her foreign policy image as well as target the votes of French citizens of Lebanese descent, many who fled to France following a civil war.
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Bodies of 74 migrants wash up on Libya's coast
Red Crescent spokesman Mohamed al-Misrati said the corpses had been recovered Monday near the city of Zawiya and the asylum seekers appeared to have died during the past two days. Leggeri blamed the high death rates on the very poor dinghies and vessels used by smugglers. Having largely closed off sea crossings between Turkey and Greece a year ago, the European Union is searching for ways to stem the flow of migrants from Libya.
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Vail Resorts buys Stowe Mountain Resort
The business includes AIG Affordable Housing (representing over 102,000 multi-family units across the United States), and the investment management of Stowe Mountain Resort . As reported by POWDER , Stowe - prior to today - was the only ski resort in America that had been under the same ownership since 1949. Vail Resorts will look to retain most of Stowe's employees and look to integrate the mountain in the Epic Pass for the 2017-2018 winter.
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Rioting erupts in immigrant-dominated Swedish suburb
Police described Rinkeby as predominantly immigrant, though it wasn't clear who the perpetrators of the violence were. According to crime statistics analysis between October 2015 and January 2016 performed by Dagens Nyheter , refugees, of which Sweden took in the greatest number per capita in 2015, were responsible for only one percent of all incidents.
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'Not My Presidents Day': Thousands Protest at Anti-Trump Rallies Across US
The San Francisco protesters were among thousands who attended Not My Presidents Day rallies around the nation, including thousands in NY and several hundred in Chicago and Washington, D.C. Multiple banners also touched on climate change , equal rights for women and their unbridled distaste for the newly elected USA president. "I am here to stand up for what's right, to stand up against what's wrong", one protester, Miriam Bowden, said.
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North Korea's Regime In Jeopardy As China Bans Coal Imports
Malaysia has recalled its ambassador from North Korea over the incident while North Korea's ambassador to Malaysia says the investigation is politically motivated. He was sacked from his job in 2013 as deputy editor at the Study Times , a newspaper put out by the Central Party School, the Communist Party's top training facility for its officials.