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19th Mar 2024

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Ukraine claims to have hit Wagner paramilitary base

Ukraine says it has hit a base being used near the occupied city of Melitopol by Russia's mercenary Wagner group. The governor of the Luhansk region said the target was destroyed "by a precision strike", after the address was inadvertently revealed by a Russian journalist, according to Ukrainian website Ukrainska Pravda. The shadowy Wagner group is believed to have hundreds of mercenaries fighting in Mali and elsewhere in Africa.

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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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