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19th Mar 2024

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New interior minister: 'Islam doesn't belong to Germany'

Intended to move the new German government in a more conservative direction and win back voters from the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), new interior minister Horst Seehofer has picked up one the AfD slogans, saying in a Bild interview that "Islam doesn't belong to Germany". The former Bavarian leader rejected in the interview criticism that Merkel's new government, inaugurated on Wednesday, doesn't include any politicians with an immigrant background.

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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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