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19th Mar 2024

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Erdogan claim on EU migrant money 'not true'

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's claim that the EU is not paying the money it had agreed to under a €3 billion migrant deal is "simply not true", the European Commission has said. A spokesman said the EU had "allocated" €740 million and would "allocate" a further €1.4 billion "by the end of the month". He said the money was at "different stages" of being disbursed to aid agencies.

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Borrell: 'Israel provoking famine', urges more aid access

70 percent of northern Gaza is facing famine, new data shows. There is one shower per 5,500 people, and 888 people per toilet. 'How can you live in these conditions?" asked Natalie Boucly of UNRWA at the European Humanitarian Forum.

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Potential legal avenues to prosecute Navalny's killers

The UN could launch an independent international investigation into Navalny's killing, akin to investigation I conducted on Jamal Khashoggi's assassination, or on Navalny's Novichok poisoning, in my role as special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, writes the secretary-general of Amnesty International.

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