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19th Mar 2024

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Orban ordered to apologise over 'misleading' Soros survey

Hungary's top court ruled on Wednesday that nationalist prime minister Viktor Orban's government had published "misleading and falsely presented facts" about a refugee rights group in a questionnaire sent to millions of households in 2017. The NGO Hungarian Helsinki Committee said the Supreme Court ruled that the government had damaged its reputation over the "national consultation" questionnaire about US billionaire George Soros, ordered an apology and compensation of €6,000.

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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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