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19th Mar 2024

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Steep fall in migrants reaching EU

The number of people trying to reach the EU via the Mediterranean fell 63 percent in the first 10 months of this year compared to last year, reaching 173,000, Frontex, the EU border agency, said on Thursday. The Central Mediterranean tour to Italy accounted for 112,000, with most people coming from Tunisia. The Greece corridor accounted for 31,500. Numbers to Spain climbed 100 percent to 15,500.

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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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