Julian Assange's t-shirt tribute to Gaza victims at Cannes Festival
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Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, appeared at the Cannes Film Festival wearing a shirt printed with the names of thousands of Palestinian children killed in Israel's war on Gaza.
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