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19th Mar 2024

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Turkey overhauls military brass

Turkey's government on Thursday decided to sack almost half of its generals as part of a larger purge to rid any opposition to president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's grip on power. Some 149 generals out of a total of 358 will be replaced. Erdogan has arrested around 10,000 soldiers and closed down over 130 media outlets in the wake of a failed coup on 15 July.

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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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