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19th Mar 2024

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Flights out of Moscow sell out after Putin mobilisation order

One-way flights out of Russia were selling out fast on Wednesday after president Vladimir Putin ordered the immediate mobilisation of 300,000 reservists, Reuters reported. Putin's announcement raised fears that some men of fighting age would not be allowed to leave Russia. Direct flights from Moscow to Turkey's Istanbul and Armenia's Yerevan, which both allow Russians in without a visa, were sold out, according to Aviasales, Russia's most popular flight website.

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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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