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19th Mar 2024

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Report: Czech minister plotted to bury evidence on Russian attack

Jan Hamáček, the Czech interior minister, who was also interim foreign minister in April, hatched a plan to bury evidence that Russia blew up a Czech arms warehouse in 2014, in return for 1m doses of Russia's coronavirus vaccine and letting Prague host a Russia-US summit, according to government sources speaking to news outlet Seznam Zprávy. Hamáček called the report "complete nonsense" and said was suing for €390,000 in damages.

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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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