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19th Mar 2024

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EU to reveal plans to limit plastic waste

The EU commission will reveal on Monday plans to limit the use of plastics and raise tax-revenues for the Union's budget. Germany has already signalled approval of the plans, with environment minister Svenja Schulze telling German TV ARD that single-use plastics "should be regulated at a European level". Without action there will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation has warned.

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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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