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19th Mar 2024

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Cyberattack cripples Europe, spreads worldwide

Ukraine was hit hard in a global ransomware attack on Tuesday, affecting its international airport, the old Chernobyl nuclear plant and closing ATMs in Kiev. Spreading fast, global shipping firm A.P. Moller-Maersk and the world's biggest advertising agency, WPP Group, were hit, as well as Russia's biggest oil company, Deutsche Post and many others. It was unclear who was behind this cyberattack, which has been named Petya.

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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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