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19th Mar 2024

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EU readies counter-measures on possible US car tariffs

The EU is preparing a list of counter-measures to possible US tariffs on European cars, EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said on Thursday, a week before she and the EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker travel to Washington for trade talks with US president Donald Trump. The EU has already imposed tariffs worth €2.8bn on US products as a counter-measure to US tariffs on steel and aluminium.

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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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