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19th Mar 2024

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Eurozone unemployment unchanged at 10.1%

Unemployment in the eurozone is standing unchanged at 10.1 percent, the lowest since July 2011, Eurostat, the EU's statistical office reported Wednesday. The number of people out of work in the euro area fell by 43,000 to 16.3 million in July. At the same time, eurozone unemployment remains higher than in the EU of the 28 member states, where the jobless rate was unchanged at 8.6 percent in July.

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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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