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• Pennsylvania magistrate judge charged with shooting estranged boyfriend in head

  16-02-2024 23:51 via foxnews.com
  
  A suspended magistrate judge in Pennsylvania shot her estranged boyfriend in the head as he slept last weekend, police said Thursday in filing attempted murder and aggravated assault charges against her.Tests showed Magisterial District Judge Sonya M. McKnight, 57, had gunshot residue on her hands an hour after Michael McCoy was shot in the bed of his home in the Harrisburg area early Saturday, Susquehanna Township Police wrote in an arrest affidavit.McKnight was in the Dauphin County Prison on
  
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• Pac-12, George Kliavkoff agree to part ways months after collapse of conference

  16-02-2024 23:50 via foxnews.com
  
  After a tumultuous year, the Pac-12 Conference will have a new leader. The Pac-12 Board of Directors on Friday announced that they and commissioner George Kliavkoff had mutually agreed to part ways, effective Feb. 29. "More details about new leadership of the Pac-12 will be announced next week," the conference said in a press release. FORMER PAC-12 STAR DEFENDS DISMANTLING OF CONFERENCE, REALIGNMENT: 'IT'S TIME'The move is not surprising, considering what has happened to the confe
  
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• In his own words - Alexei Navalny's dark humour during dark times

  16-02-2024 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The opposition leader was famed for his dry wit which he often directed at Putin.
  
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• Florida woman disappears in Madrid after suspicious text, blacked-out surveillance cameras

  16-02-2024 23:49 via foxnews.com
  
  A Florida woman, who took haven in Madrid, Spain amid her tumultuous divorce, has disappeared under mysterious circumstance, authorities said.In December, 40-year-old Ana Maria Knezevic moved into a Madrid, Spain apartment for a brief escape during her contentious divorce with her Serbian husband.At the beginning of February, authorities said that Knezevic mysteriously disappeared from her apartment rental in Spain.Shortly after her sudden vanishing act, authorities said that a man, his identity
  
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• WATCH: Florida deputy saves trapped, unconscious baby’s life after car crashes with speeding motorcyclist

  16-02-2024 23:37 via foxnews.com
  
  A deputy in Charlotte County, Florida, saved the life of a 6-month-old baby who became trapped inside the backseat of her mother’s car, after a motorcyclist crashed into them going more than 100 mph, according to the sheriff’s office.After witnessing the Feb. 8 crash, Deputy Sgt. Dave Musgrove got out of his vehicle and raced to the scene, the office said in a Friday release. Musgrove's bodycam video shows him helping a screaming child out of the vehicle and flagging down a pede
  
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• Pregnant woman found dead in Indiana in 1992 is identified through her father's DNA

  16-02-2024 23:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  A pregnant woman who was found dead in 1992 in a northeastern Indiana basement has been identified through forensic genetic genealogy and DNA provided by her father, authorities said Thursday.
  
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• Virginia hotel employees rescue toddler's lost stuffed animal, take photos of it working and exercising

  16-02-2024 23:29 via foxnews.com
  
  A family is singing the praises of hotel employees at a Richmond, Virginia, hotel after they helped reunite a young boy and his beloved plush toy. A four-year-old boy was traveling with his family when they stopped to stay at the Holiday Inn Express in Richmond, Virginia. After departing, the family realized their four-year-old son had left his stuffed animal toy behind.MICHIGAN SIBLINGS REUNITE WITH THEIR 3-YEAR-OLD BROTHER AFTER HIS 6-MONTH HOSPITAL STAY FOR CANCER TREATMENTEmployees
  
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• The best Amazon Presidents Day 2024 sales you can already shop

  16-02-2024 23:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  Shop the best Presidents Day deals on Amazon across categories like tech, bedding, home and kitchen and more.
  
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• 'The View' defends Fani Willis but host admits she 'should not have done this'

  16-02-2024 23:21 via foxnews.com
  
  The co-hosts of ABC’s "The View" did their best to defend Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis after her Thursday testimony. However, one host admitted Willis’ behavior got her into this mess.The co-hosts' comments followed Willis’ head-turning testimony at an evidentiary hearing regarding whether she should be disqualified for her alleged improper affair with a lawyer she hired to help her prosecute former President Trump. Though she and her co-hosts insisted Willis came
  
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• Patrick Mahomes, wife Brittany visit wounded children from Super Bowl parade shooting in hospital

  16-02-2024 23:21 via foxnews.com
  
  What was supposed to be a celebration for the Kansas City Chiefs turned into a life or death situation on Wednesday.One person was killed, and 22 others were injured, in a shooting outside of Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, shortly after the Chiefs' Super Bowl victory rally ended.The one dead, Lisa Lopez-Galvan, was a DJ in the area who attended the event with her cousin Erika's two daughters, who were also shot.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMThe girls, ages 10 and 8,
  
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• Biden visits East Palestine a year after toxic train derailment

  16-02-2024 23:20 via abcnews.go.com
  
  President Joe Biden visited East Palestine, Ohio, on Friday to mark one year since a train derailment spilled hazardous materials and toxins into the environment.
  
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• UAW threatening strike at country's largest Ford factory

  16-02-2024 23:16 via foxnews.com
  
  The United Auto Workers union is threatening to go on strike next week at Ford Motor Co.'s largest and most profitable factory in a dispute over local contract language.The union said Friday that nearly 9,000 workers at the Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville will strike on Feb. 23 if the local contract dispute is not resolved.If there's a strike, it would be the second time the union has walked out at the sprawling factory in the past year. In October, UAW workers shut down the plant during nati
  
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• Top diplomats from US, China hold 'constructive' talks on issues dividing them

  16-02-2024 23:16 via foxnews.com
  
  MUNICH (AP) — Top diplomats from the U.S. and China on Friday held a "candid and constructive" discussion on issues vexing their strained relations over Taiwan, the situation in the South China Sea, Russia’s war against Ukraine and synthetic opioids, the State Department said.The meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference marked the latest and highest-level meeting between the two side
  
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• Trump blasts 'clubhouse politician' judge after being fined $350M, defends the 'great company' he built

  16-02-2024 23:07 via foxnews.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump blasted "clubhouse politician" Judge Arthur Engoron Friday after he barred him from operating his business in New York for three years and fined him more than $350 million, defending the "great company" he built and telling Fox News Digital that the ruling is yet another example of Democrats "trying to stop" him, but that "they will not be successful."Engoron handed down his ruling Friday after a months-long civil fraud trial beginning in October and stemming fr
  
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• Jennifer Lopez warns Ben Affleck is off limits, telling anyone who flirts with him to 'step all the way off'

  16-02-2024 23:04 via foxnews.com
  
  Jennifer Lopez wants Ben Affleck all to herself.During a recent appearance on "Today with Hoda & Jenna," the singer played a game called "This Is Me… Now or Then," in which Lopez would be given a prompt and decide whether it applied to who she is today or who she was in the past.One of the prompts host Hoda Kotb brought up was "gets jealous if someone hits on your significant other." Lopez immediately held up the paddle saying "now," while giving the camera a look, implying it was the
  
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• Kyrsten Sinema did not hold a single public town hall as she spent $200K in taxpayer funds on private flights

  16-02-2024 22:58 via foxnews.com
  
  Sen. Kyrsten Sinema spent over $200,000 on taxpayer-funded private flights since 2020 despite previously backing legislation to "hold Congress accountable" for luxury air travel. During this time, however, the independent Arizona senator did not hold a single public town hall with constituents.Sinema has faced scrutiny over the use of the money from her Senate office budget on private air travel for her and her team members, including $116,000 in 2023 alone, according to past reports and figures
  
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• Officials order all children removed from North Carolina wilderness camp where boy died

  16-02-2024 22:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  Officials have ordered that all children be removed from a North Carolina wilderness camp for troubled youths following the death of a 12-year-old in the camp’s care earlier this month.
  
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• Woman’s hijab stolen at knifepoint near University of Washington in attack investigated as hate crime

  16-02-2024 22:35 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Seattle woman was robbed of her hijab at knifepoint near the University of Washington campus Monday morning.
  
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• How right-wing misinformation on immigration crosses over to the Spanish media

  16-02-2024 22:35 via nbcnews.com
  
  Researchers found most Spanish-language immigration misinformation seems to largely mirror the falsehoods spread by right-wing media outlets in English.
  
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• St Vincent and the Grenadines court upholds laws criminalizing gay sex

  16-02-2024 22:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Activists decry ruling by top court as ‘a travesty of justice’ after two men sought to strike down colonial-era lawsA top court in St Vincent and the Grenadines has upheld laws that criminalize gay sex, in a blow to activists who have long decried the violence the LGBTQ+ community has faced on the conservative Caribbean archipelago.The ruling on Friday by St Vincent’s high court stems from a 2019 case filed by two gay men from St Vincent who live in the UK and US. They sought t
  
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• FDA approves groundbreaking treatment for advanced melanoma

  16-02-2024 22:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new cancer therapy that could one day transform the way a majority of aggressive and advanced tumors are treated.
  
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• Putin must be held accountable - Yulia Navalnaya

  16-02-2024 22:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Alexei Navalny's wife says Vladimir Putin "will be brought to justice", after her husband was reported to have died in prison.
  
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• Imprisoned former Pakistani premier Khan appeals 3 recent convictions

  16-02-2024 22:05 via foxnews.com
  
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — The legal team of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday appealed his recent convictions and sentences in three controversial legal cases, a defense lawyer said.Khan was sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison on charges of corruption, revealing official secrets and marriage law violations in three separate verdicts in late January and early February during trials at a prison in Rawalpindi. The appeals in all three cases were filed Friday
  
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• Police search area after tip on disappearance of missing girl Lina Sardar Khil

  16-02-2024 21:44 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Police in San Antonio began a new search this week after receiving a tip related to the 2021 disappearance of 3-year-old Lina Sardar Khil.
  
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• Judge declares mistrial in Casey Goodson Jr. fatal shooting case

  16-02-2024 21:29 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Former deputy Jason Meade was charged with murder in the 23-year-old Black man's death.
  
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• St. Vincent and the Grenadines upholds gay sex ban

  16-02-2024 21:20 via foxnews.com
  
  A top court in St. Vincent and the Grenadines upheld laws on Friday that criminalize gay sex, a blow to activists who have long decried the violence the LGBTQ+ community has faced on the conservative Caribbean archipelago.The ruling by St. Vincent’s High Court stems from a 2019 case filed by two gay men from St. Vincent who live abroad, seeking to strike down colonial-era laws that call for 10 years in prison for anal intercourse and five years for "gross indecency" with another person of
  
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• Trump campaign scrambles over abortion ban report as Democrats seize the moment

  16-02-2024 21:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Biden’s campaign and abortion rights advocates ripped into Trump on abortion Friday following a report that he has given private signals in favor of a national ban on abortions after 16 weeks of pregnancy that would include exceptions in cases of rape, incest and when the woman’s life is in danger.
  
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• Online influencers lead thousands demanding change in Hungary following president's resignation

  16-02-2024 21:17 via foxnews.com
  
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Some of Hungary's best-known online personalities led a crowd of at least 10,000 protesters in Budapest on Friday to demand a change in the country's political culture, a response to the conservative president's recent resignation over a pardon she issued in a child sexual abuse case.Demonstrators filled the Hungarian capital's sprawling Heroes' Square and called for genuine reforms to Hungary's child protection system and for a transformation in Prime Minister Vik
  
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• Man arrested for allegedly setting fires at predominantly Black church

  16-02-2024 20:53 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A Rhode Island man faces federal charges for allegedly setting a church on fire in what prosecutors called a "deliberate act."
  
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• Alexei Navalny was often asked: ‘Do you fear for your life?'

  16-02-2024 20:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sarah Rainsford on how Putin's opponent never abandoned his belief in "the beautiful Russia of the future".
  
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• Alexei Navalny's wife has a message for Putin following news of husband's death

  16-02-2024 19:49 via foxnews.com
  
  The wife of Alexei Navalny vowed on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin, his allies and the Kremlin "will have to pay" following reports that her husband — a prominent opposition leader — collapsed and died in custody at a penal colony in Siberia. Yulia Navalnaya, speaking at the Munich Security Conference, while Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken were also in attendance, said, "If this is true, I want Putin and his entire surrounding, Pu
  
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• Woman who handed over British girl, 3, for FGM in Kenya given seven years

  16-02-2024 19:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Amina Noor travelled from north London with the child to Kenya where the procedure was carried out in 2006A woman who was found guilty of handing over a three-year-old British girl for female genital mutilation (FGM) during a trip to Kenya has been jailed for seven years.Amina Noor, 40, was convicted last year of assisting a Kenyan woman to carry out the procedure overseas in 2006. The conviction was the first for assisting in such harm under the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003. Continue read
  
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• Sudan's army denounces video allegedly showing its troops carrying severed heads of enemies

  16-02-2024 19:32 via foxnews.com
  
  Sudan’s armed forces have ordered an investigation into a video that purportedly shows some of its troops carrying the severed heads of members of the rival paramilitary faction in the country's civil war, the military said Friday.The military released a statement that denounced the "shocking content" of the video, which has recently gone viral on social media platforms in Sudan, and vowed to hold its troops accountable if they were proven to be the perpetrators.The video shows a group of
  
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• Air Canada ordered to pay customer who was misled by airline’s chatbot

  16-02-2024 19:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Company claimed its chatbot ‘was responsible for its own actions’ when giving wrong information about bereavement fareCanada’s largest airline has been ordered to pay compensation after its chatbot gave a customer inaccurate information, misleading him into buying a full-price ticket.Air Canada came under further criticism for later attempting to distance itself from the error by claiming that the bot was “responsible for its own actions”. Continue reading...
  
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• Alexei Navalny's moments of defiance as Putin's fiercest critic

  16-02-2024 19:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  See key moments in Alexei Navalny's career as an outspoken critic of President Putin.
  
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• Cambodia to import tigers from India as part of plan to restore population

  16-02-2024 19:05 via foxnews.com
  
  Cambodia will begin installing hundreds of monitoring cameras and import four tigers from India as part of a plan to restore its tiger population, officials said Friday.Tigers were declared "functionally extinct" in Cambodia in 2016 by the World Wide Fund for Nature. The last tiger spotted in the country was seen in 2007 by a camera trap -– a hidden camera that is triggered by the movement of animals -– in the forests of eastern Mondulkiri province.Cambodia's Environment Ministry sai
  
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• What happens if Fulton County DA Fani Willis is disqualified from the Trump racketeering case?

  16-02-2024 19:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  If District Attorney Fani Willis is disqualified from the Trump Georgia election interference case, it could delay any trial until well after the 2024 election — and possibly scuttle the charges altogether, legal experts say.
  
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• Biden: 'No doubt' Putin is responsible for Navalny's death

  16-02-2024 18:58 via nbcnews.com
  President Joe Biden said we still don't know "exactly what happened" to cause Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death, but "Putin and his thugs" are responsible.
  
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• Asthma medication approved by FDA to help treat people with food allergies

  16-02-2024 18:55 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Early data from a federally funded clinical trial shows promise for asthma medicine to curb food allergy reactions in kids.
  
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• Gaza's Nasser hospital: Fears for patients as Israeli raid continues

  16-02-2024 18:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Further damage is reported at Nasser, as Israel says it has captured 7 October attackers there.
  
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• What we know about Alexei Navalny's death

  16-02-2024 18:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Many believe the opposition leader paid the ultimate price for opposing Putin - what do we know?
  
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• European Union expands strict online rules beyond biggest websites to almost all platforms

  16-02-2024 18:22 via foxnews.com
  
  The European Union is expanding its strict digital rulebook on Saturday to almost all online platforms in the bloc, in the next phase of its crackdown on toxic social media content and dodgy ecommerce products that began last year by targeting the most popular services.The EU's trailblazing Digital Services Act has already kicked in for nearly two dozen of the biggest online platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Amazon and Wikipedia. The DSA imposes a set of strict requirements desi
  
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• Egypt scraps plan to restore cladding on one of three great pyramids of Giza

  16-02-2024 18:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Antiquities authority drops proposal for Menkaure pyramid after review prompted by international outcryEgypt has scuttled a controversial plan to reinstall ancient granite cladding on the pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of the three great pyramids of Giza, a committee formed by the country’s tourism minister said in a statement.Mostafa Waziri, the secretary general of the supreme council of antiquities, announced the plan last month, declaring it would be “the project of the centur
  
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• A glimpse of Hamas’ elusive leader is spurring Israel’s military to catch him 'dead or alive'

  16-02-2024 18:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  The hunt for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is heating up after footage emerged of him in a Gaza tunnel under the southern city of Khan Younis.
  
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• Egypt building walled enclosure in Sinai for Rafah refugees, photos suggest

  16-02-2024 17:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Monitoring group releases evidence of work that appears intended to house Palestinians in event of Israeli assault on cityMiddle East crisis – live updatesEgypt has begun building an enclosed area ringed with high concrete walls along its border with Gaza that appears intended to house Palestinians fleeing a threatened Israeli assault on the southern city of Rafah.Photos and videos released by the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights (SFHR), a monitoring group, show workers using heavy machin
  
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• Palestinian ambassador to UK says eight relatives killed in Israeli strikes in Rafah

  16-02-2024 17:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Husam Zomlot says family members who died while sheltering in city include seven-year-old twins and 15-month-oldThe Palestinian ambassador to the UK has said eight of his relatives who were sheltering in the southern Gaza town of Rafah have been killed in an Israeli strike.Husam Zomlot identified a girl in a distressing photo that has been widely shared online as his wife’s seven-year-old cousin Sidra Hassouna. In the image that has been posted on social media, Sidra’s body can be se
  
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• BBC Russia Editor: News will worsen Russia-West relations

  16-02-2024 17:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  News of Alexei Navalny's death will worsen relations between Russia and the west, Steve Rosenberg says.
  
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• Biden ‘privately defiant’ over chaotic 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, book says

  16-02-2024 16:42 via theguardian.com
  
  The Internationalists details how the president was determined to leave a country in which 2,324 US troops were killed since 2001Joe Biden is “privately defiant” that he made the right calls on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in summer 2021, a new book reportedly says, even as the chaos and carnage that unfolded continues to be investigated in Congress.“No one offered to resign” over the withdrawal, writes Alexander Ward, a Politico reporter, “in large part becau
  
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• Middle East crisis: Palestinian exodus into Egypt ‘must be avoided’, warns UN chief – as it happened

  16-02-2024 16:26 via theguardian.com
  
  High commissioner for refugees says people crossing the border would be the ‘nail in the coffin’ for any peace processSee all of our Israel-Gaza war updatesThe hunger crisis in Gaza has reached “unprecedented levels, as people run out of even animal feed to eat” said development charity ActionAid on Friday.“An unprecedented and totally avoidable hunger crisis” has led to “every single person in the territory now experiencing extreme levels of hunger&rdqu
  
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• Watch Yulia Navalnaya speak following report of husband Alexei's death

  16-02-2024 16:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Yulia Navalnaya tells a conference in Munich she doesn't know whether the "horrible news" is true.
  
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