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19th Mar 2024

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Sweden to reintroduce military conscription for both sexes

Sweden's centre-left government is expected to formally decide on Thursday to reintroduce compulsory military service from 2018, eight years after it was abolished. Approximately 4,000 18-year-olds of both sexes are expected to be called to service each year. "We have had difficulties in staffing the military units on a voluntary basis and it must somehow be addressed," defence minister Peter Hultqvist told public service radio SR.

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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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