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On the run from Russia: the defector to Ukraine shot dead on the Costa Blanca (www.theguardian.com)

Maksim Kuzminov flew a Russian miltary helicopter to Ukraine. Armed with a new identity, he moved to a Spanish resort. Then he was killed in an underground car park...

Sinking ship hit by Houthi missile leaves 18-mile oil slick in Red Sea, US officials say (www.cnn.com)

A cargo ship that was struck by a Houthi ballistic missile on Monday has created an 18-mile long oil slick in the Red Sea as it continues to take on water, two US officials said Friday....

Thousands protest as hunger grows amid Argentine austerity (www.france24.com)

Russian Olympic Committee loses appeal against suspension by the IOC (apnews.com)

Police beatings of pro-Palestinian schoolchildren spark outrage in Italy (www.deccanherald.com)

Bengal famine: Tracking down the last survivors of WW2's forgotten tragedy (www.bbc.com)

Three million died in the 1943 Bengal famine - one man is collecting the remaining survivors' tales.

Arms exports to Israel must stop immediately: UN experts (www.ohchr.org)

UK-born woman Shamima Begum who joined ISIS loses appeal over citizenship removal (www.straitstimes.com)

Russian war blogger dies in apparent suicide after facing criticism for revealing Moscow's losses (apnews.com)

Stroking the ego: Hungary’s Orbán gives his nod to Sweden’s NATO bid (www.politico.eu)

Also helping was a deal to sell more Swedish jet fighters to Hungary....

Shamima Begum: Woman who joined ISIS as a teen loses challenge against the removal of her UK citizenship (www.cnn.com)

A woman who left the United Kingdom to join ISIS at the age of 15 has lost her Court of Appeal challenge over the decision to remove her British citizenship....

With army in charge, no more jacuzzis and clubs in Ecuador jail (www.france24.com)

How a secretive Ethiopian security committee ordered killings, arrests: Reuters (www.reuters.com)

A secretive committee of senior officials in Ethiopia’s largest and most populous region, Oromiya, has ordered extra-judicial killings and illegal detentions to crush an insurgency there, a Reuters investigation has found. Reuters interviewed more than 30 federal and local officials, judges, lawyers and victims of abuses by...

Valencia fire: Ten bodies found as Spanish police search gutted flats (www.bbc.com)

Germany legalises cannabis, but makes it hard to buy (www.bbc.com)

The German parliament has backed a new law to allow the recreational use of cannabis....

Putin Fears Navalny Funeral Could Trigger Mass Demonstrations, Khodorkovsky Says (www.rferl.org)

The government of Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely refusing to release the body of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, who died suspiciously in prison on February 16, because it fears a massive outpouring of grief and support just ahead of the March presidential election, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a leading Russian...

Incredibly, The Russian Air Force Has Lost Another Rare A-50 Radar Plane (www.forbes.com)

Incredibly, the Russian air force has lost another one of its rare Beriev A-50M/U Mainstay radar early-warning planes. Video that circulated online on Friday reportedly depicts the A-50’s burning wreckage in Krasnodar Krai, in Russia just east of the Sea of Azov....

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