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19th Mar 2024

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Number of lone minors coming to Italy doubles

More than 90 percent of the children who came to Italy's shores as refugees or migrants in 2016 had travelled there without their parents, Unicef said on Friday. According to the agency, that was the case for 25,800 or 91 percent of the total 28,200. Unicef also noted that the number of lone minors had more than doubled from the 2016 figure, which was 12,360.

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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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