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19th Mar 2024

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Report: EU secretly scorns UK's Brexit paper

The UK's new proposal for a bespoke EU customs deal would not fly, but Brussels did not want to publicly reject it in order to prevent a British government crisis, British daily The Guardian reported. "The white paper's not going to form the basis of negotiations," a "senior EU diplomat" reportedly said, but rejecting it "would likely prove an existential threat" to the British PM, "senior sources in Brussels" added.

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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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