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19th Mar 2024

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German parliament paves way for road toll

MPs in the German Bundestag approved a bill on Friday that would introduce a road toll, a week after members of the European Parliament said the plan was discriminatory. The bill would allow German drivers to deduct the toll from their vehicle tax, an option unavailable to non-German EU citizens driving through Germany. The German vote had the support of most MPs in the grand coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD.

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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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