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Lebanon finds suspected remains of troops held by IS
Lebanese authorities Sunday located the remains of eight people they believe to be soldiers kidnapped three years ago by the Islamic State group along the restive eastern border with Syria. The announcement came hours after the army declared a pause in its nine-day assault on IS in exchange for information on the missing soldiers. Head of the General Security agency Major General Abbas Ibrahim said IS fighters who had surrendered led his agency and the Lebanese army to the remains.
Majority of people in France now dissatisfied with Macron: poll
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By Sudip Kar-Gupta PARIS (Reuters) - Most French voters are now dissatisfied with Emmanuel Macron's performance, a poll showed on Sunday, a dramatic decline for a president who basked in a landslide election victory less than four months ago. The poll, conducted by Ifop for newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD), showed Macron's "dissatisfaction rating" rising to 57 percent, from 43 percent in July. French government spokesman Christophe Castaner said the ruling party was going through a tricky time, but added that displeasing some people was a price worth paying if the government wanted to push through reforms.
Angela Merkel tells asylum seekers not to take holidays in their country of origin
Harsher measures should be taken against asylum seekers if they take a holiday in their country of origin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview, in which she also said she had no regrets over her open-door refugee policy. "Taking holidays in the country in which you are being persecuted is not on," she said in an interview with Welt am Sonntag, adding that it could be a reason to re-examine an asylum case. While there is no official data on asylum seekers returning to their home countries on "holiday", the issue has been the focus of media reports in Germany. Leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and candidate for chancellor, Martin Schulz Credit: EPA/SASCHA STEINBACH Newspaper Die Welt first reported last year that it had uncovered cases of recognised asylum seekers who travelled to countries such as Syria and Afghanistan for a short time before returning to Germany. Martin Retsch, from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said the practice was not “widespread”. The issue is, however, indicative of the tensions that have built in Germany as a result of the influx of refugees. Mrs Merkel said she has no regrets over her refugee policy, which saw Germany controversially open its doors to hundreds of thousands of refugees two years ago, despite the deep rifts the decision caused in her party. Graphic: Germany’s political spectrum “I would make all of the important decisions of 2015 the same way again”, she said in the interview yesterday/Sunday. Just four weeks ahead of the German election, an Emnid opinion poll on Sunday suggested Merkel’s refugee policy was not likely to lose her the election, putting her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 15 points ahead of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD). However, 46 per cent of voters have yet to make up their minds, according to a survey for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. Profile | Angela Merkel Martin Schulz, Mrs Merkel's main challenger, stepped up his attacks yesterday in an attempt to turn around his flagging campaign, labelling the Chancellor "aloof" and "out of touch". The Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader said Mrs Merkel had tried to dictate terms for their sole televised debate after she reportedly rejected a television network's proposals to change up the format to allow for more spontaneity when the pair face off next Sunday. "More and more people are seeing this as a kind of aloofness that is already playing a big role in this campaign and will mobilise my voters," said Schulz.
Police: Concrete slab may hold remains of long-missing woman
MILTON, Pa. (AP) — Investigators hope tests on a three-ton hunk of concrete will soon solve the 1989 disappearance of a young mother, by determining whether her remains were fed through wood chipper and then entombed in the basement of a Pennsylvania duplex.
