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19th Mar 2024

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Nato warns against Armenia-Azerbaijan 'escalation'

Nato head Jens Stoltenberg said in Brussels Monday that it was "important to avoid escalation" in the Armenia-Azerbaijan war because there was "no military solution to this conflict". He urged a restart of negotiations over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. He spoke alongside Armenian leader Serzh Sargsyan, who said earlier that Nagorno-Karabakh should hold a referendum. Russia is the dominant military power in the South Caucasus despite limited Nato-Armenia cooperation.

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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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