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19th Mar 2024

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EU mulls making Google pay news media for content

Draft EU proposals as part of an effort to create a digital single market, seen by The Guardian and Reuters, would help news media to charge technology giants such Google or Facebook for using their content on their websites and help TV broadcasters to make their catch-up sites, such as the BBC's iPlayer, available across all 28 member states. The reforms are designed to protect "media pluralism" by boosting revenues.

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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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