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19th Mar 2024

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Juncker hopes for Canada accord in 'next few days'

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters that he hoped the outstanding issues over a free trade deal between the EU and Canada would be settled in the next few days, saying "I hope that we will be able to see an agreed settlement in a few days, with the Wallonians, our friends". The Belgian region of Wallonia is blocking ratification over social and environmental concerns.

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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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