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19th Mar 2024

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EU court washes hands of Turkey migrant deal

The EU court in Luxembourg said on Tuesday that it lacked jurisdiction to rule on the legality of the 2016 EU-Turkey migrant deal because it was concluded between member states and Turkey at intergovernmental level, and did not involve the EU institutions. Two Pakistanis and an Afghan asylum seeker filed the case after travelling via Turkey to Greece. The EU-Turkey deal risked seeing them returned to Turkey and stuck there.

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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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