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Navalny's funeral draws police presence; over 100 in Gaza killed while seeking aid

Alexei Navalny's funeral draws crowds and a heavy police presence. Israeli troops fired on Palestinians getting aid in Gaza.
Flowers lay next to a picture of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at a makeshift memorial organized at the monument to the victims of political repressions in Saint Petersburg.

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is expected to be laid to in Moscow today. Navalny died two weeks ago under mysterious circumstances in an Arctic prison colony. His widow, Yulia, says her husband was murdered on orders of Russian president Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin has denied the accusation and insists it has no interest in Navalny's funeral proceedings.

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