Head of Austrian far right to visit Washington at time of Trump inauguration

[WorldNews]

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The head of Austria's far-right Freedom Party, Heinz-Christian Strache, has said he will travel to Washington for meetings "on the sidelines of" the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, though he did not specify who. In a statement on his Facebook page, the head of the anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPO) did not say whether he would attend the inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20, but did state he would not be meeting Trump himself. Strache's visit is likely to raise fresh questions about ties between European far-right parties and people close to Trump.

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