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19th Mar 2024

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Half of Russians back 1956 repression in Hungary

Half of Russian people surveyed by independent pollster Levada said the Soviet Union was right to use tanks to crush the Hungarian uprising in 1956; 6 percent said they were strongly opposed to the crackdown, which killed 2,000 people. The Russian ambassador to Budapest was summoned by the Hungarian government after Russian state TV said on Sunday that the uprising was a Western coup that liberated former Nazis from prison.

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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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