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19th Mar 2024

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Trump threatens to slap 20 percent tariff on EU cars

US president Donald Trump on Friday threatened to put a 20 percent tariff on imported cars from the EU. Trump said in a tweet that unless the EU removes "tariffs and trade barriers" he will introduce the new levy. The warning comes as the EU's retaliatory measures to counter new US steel and aluminium tariffs kick in on Friday with 25 percent duties on some €2.8bn-worth of US imports.

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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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