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19th Mar 2024

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Seehofer gives Merkel time to strike EU migration deal

German chancellor Angela Merkel was Sunday offered more time to agree a new EU migration policy by her interior minister, Horst Seehofer, who said he did not want Germany's government to fall. Seehofer wants police stationed at borders - against EU rules - turning back migrants arriving from other EU countries. Merkel plans a series of bilateral meetings with EU leaders ahead of next week's summit to find a solution.

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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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