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19th Mar 2024

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Germany unlikely to fulfil Nato pledge

German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel said in Tallinn on Wednesday that his country was unlikely to meet its Nato pledge to spend at least 2 percent of GDP on its military. "It is totally unrealistic," he said, according to the Bloomberg news agency. “We shouldn’t give promises that, if you know German domestic politics, are unfulfillable," the minister, who hails from the centre-left SPD party in the grand coalition, said.

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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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