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19th Mar 2024

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US says UK trade deal 'impossible' for now

The UK is "in reality" at "the back of the queue" for US trade deals, America's top trade official, Mike Froman, told Bloomberg. He said his "priority" is the EU-US free trade deal and that the UK must settle its EU exit before negotiating bilateral accords. "It’s ... impossible for anybody else to negotiate a free trade agreement with the UK until you know what is its competence", he said.

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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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