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19th Mar 2024

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Report: Israel tries to block EU statement on Jerusalem

Israeli ambassadors in EU capitals were instructed on Wednesday night to lobby their host governments not to back an EU leaders' statement on Jerusalem at Thursday's summit in Brussels, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. The proposed EU statement, saying East Jerusalem should be shared by Israel and Palestine, was tabled by France and Belgium in reaction to a recent US decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

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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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