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World in brief: April 3, 2024
James Tshuma, a farmer in Mangwe district in southwestern Zimbabwe, stands in the middle of his dried up crop field amid a drought, in Zimbabwe, March, 22, 2024

GERMANY: Prosecutors said today that they have charged one of the most prominent figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party with a second count of uttering a slogan used by the Nazi SA stormtroopers at a political event.

Bjorn Hocke was already scheduled to go on trial in Halle on April 18. 

Prosecutors in the eastern city said they would seek to have the new count added to those proceedings.

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