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19th Mar 2024

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Italy prosecutor claims NGOs are working with migrant smugglers

Carmelo Zuccaro, the chief prosecutor for the Sicilian port city of Catania, told "La Stampa" newspaper Sunday that he has evidence in the form of phone calls that NGOs are working directly with human smugglers in Libya to bring migrants to Italy. "We don't know if we can use this information during a trial," he added. Humanitarian aid groups maintain that many more lives would be lost without their work.

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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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