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19th Mar 2024

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Hungary plans to reinforce border fence against migrants

Hungary will build a new, “more massive” fence on its southern frontiers to defend against migrants, PM Viktor Orban told state radio Friday. The fortified barrier would be able to stop “several hundreds of thousands of people” at the same time, he added. "The security of our wives and daughters is at risk," Orban said. Hungary built razor wire fences protected along its borders with Serbia and Croatia last year.

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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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