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19th Mar 2024

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Lead MEP Dieselgate committee: Italy and Slovakia will cooperate

MEP Kathleen Van Brempt said she is confident the European Parliament committee investigating the Dieselgate scandal, which she chairs, will hear testimonies from Italy and Slovakia, which have dragged their feet on appearing for months. Van Brempt told EUobserver Italian minister Graziano Delrio "will appear in January." She also had "a good conversation" with the Slovak ambassador. "You'll see at the end, we'll have heard from everyone we wanted."

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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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