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19th Mar 2024

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Denmark offers to buy Panama tax cheat data

The Danish government has offered to buy data on tax cheats linked to the Panama Papers leak, tax minister Karsten Lauritzen has confirmed. "We owe it to all Danish taxpayers who faithfully pay their taxes," he said. The government has offered up to €1.2m for the information. Lauritzen said authorities are in touch with the source, who still remains anonymous, via encrypted communications.

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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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