The German state of Bavaria is threatening Chancellor Angela Merkel's federal government with a lawsuit if it doesn't take measures to secure the German border and reduce the influx of asylum-seekers, escalating a long-running dispute over refugee policy. Bavaria is run by the Christian Social Union, the regional sister party to Merkel's conservatives and itself part of Germany's governing coalition. [...] party leader and Bavarian governor Horst Seehofer has been at odds with Merkel for months over her open-door refugee policy, and has pressed increasingly loudly for a cap on the number of refugees Germany lets in. Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish coast guards have recovered the bodies of four migrants — three of them children — after a smuggler's boat carrying migrants from Syria sank on the way to Greece.
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