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19th Mar 2024

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Hogan: UK farmers will be 'jealous' of post-Brexit CAP

"The UK farmers will look at this very jealously and see what they are missing post-2020," EU agriculture commissioner Phil Hogan said on Wednesday about the new common agriculture policy (CAP). The European Commission proposed that the CAP budget will be reduced by 5%, but Hogan told owners of small and medium-sized farms that their national governments will have options to fill the gap by redistributing funds from large farms.

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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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