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19th Mar 2024

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Report: China built 380 Muslim internment camps

China has built nearly 380 internment camps for Muslims in the Xinjiang region, with construction on dozens of the continuing over the last two years, even as Chinese authorities said their "re-education" system was winding down, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute has found, the Guardian reports. The network of camps in China's far west are used to detain Uighurs and people from other Muslim minorities.

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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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