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Macron sparks row with migrants' boat joke

President made joke about small boats often used by migrants to sail from Comoros islands to France's Mayotte, with many dying en route.

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French president Emmanuel Macron has come under fire for making a joke about makeshift craft that have been dubbed the "boats of death" because so many have sunk while transporting migrants to the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, reports RFI.

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