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19th Mar 2024

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EU to propose agriculture policy reform in 2017

The European Commission will hold a public consultation in early 2017 on how the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) should change. The commission will then publish a strategy paper on the future of the CAP “by the end of 2017”, commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said on Tuesday. “Simplification and modernisation are the key words” for the reform, he added.

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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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