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19th Mar 2024

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EU agencies accused of downplaying weedkiller toxicity

In a letter to European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, US toxicologist Christopher Portier said EU food safety and chemicals agencies (Efsa and Echa), "failed to identify all statistically significant cancer findings" in studies on glyphosate, a weedkiller used in Monsanto's Roundup product. Portier, a former head of several US agencies, asked Juncker: "refrain from making any decisions" on authorising glyphosates in Europe until the findings are included in studies.

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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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