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19th Mar 2024

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Ceta could be last trade deal, Tusk warns

European Council president Donald Tusk warned that Ceta, the EU-Canada deal, "could be our last free-trade deal" if the EU is "not able to convince that free trade is in our interest." He said that talks were still going to secure Belgian region Wallonia's backing for Ceta before Friday. "I hope that Belgium will once again prove that it is a champion in compromise-making," 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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