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19th Mar 2024

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Hollande: Church attackers claimed to be Islamic State

French president Francois Hollande has said the men who killed an elderly priest in a church in northern France on Tuesday claimed to be from the jihadist group Islamic State. Speaking from the scene of the incident, which is being treated as a terrorist attack, he said he would fight IS "by all means". Speaking from Rome, Pope Francis called the killing an act of "absurd violence".

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Borrell: 'Israel provoking famine', urges more aid access

70 percent of northern Gaza is facing famine, new data shows. There is one shower per 5,500 people, and 888 people per toilet. 'How can you live in these conditions?" asked Natalie Boucly of UNRWA at the European Humanitarian Forum.

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Potential legal avenues to prosecute Navalny's killers

The UN could launch an independent international investigation into Navalny's killing, akin to investigation I conducted on Jamal Khashoggi's assassination, or on Navalny's Novichok poisoning, in my role as special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, writes the secretary-general of Amnesty International.

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