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19th Mar 2024

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Tusk 'survives' 20-km run in Brussels

"I survived!" European council president Donald Tusk tweeted after finishing a 20-km run in central Brussels on Sunday. "And at the end, it felt much easier than running some of the #EUCO [EU] summits", he noted, after passing the finishing line and carrying a medal in a Belgian yellow-black-red coloured band. Environmental organisations criticised that 300,000 plastic bottles were used at pit-stops to refresh the 38,000 participants.

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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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