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19th Mar 2024

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Spike in migrant arrivals to Italy, says Frontex

The EU's border and coastguard agency, Frontex, said on Tuesday that around 4,800 arrived in Italy from the north African coast in January, or "double the figure from the previous month", but broadly in line with January of last year. Most making the crossing came from Eritrea, followed by Pakistan and Tunisia. Frontex has also detected "an increase in the number of Libyans making their way across the Mediterranean".

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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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