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19th Mar 2024

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Gay-rights activist storms pitch at Hungary's Euro game

An activist carrying a rainbow flag ran on the pitch while Hungary's national anthem was being played at a Euro 2020 game in Munich Wednesday in protest at Hungary's new anti-LGBTI law. A pro-LGBTI group also gave out rainbow stickers and flags to fans, while UEFA, the football body, added a rainbow logo to its Twitter handle, despite having earlier banned a rainbow light-show at the Munich stadium.

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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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