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19th Mar 2024

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US firms unite against EU on Apple tax

CEOs from 185 US firms have written to EU leaders urging them to overturn a European Commission decision that tech company Apple should pay Ireland €13bn in taxes. "In the interest of all countries that respect the rule of law, this decision must not be allowed to stand,” they said in the letter, sent by the Business Roundtable, a prominent US business lobby, according to the Financial Times newspaper.

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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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