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19th Mar 2024

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Italian budget 'significant deviation' from rules, says EU

Italy's draft 2019 budget is a "significant deviation" from EU budget rules, the European Commission said in a letter sent on Thursday to Italy's finance minister Giovanni Tria. The letter is the first step in the so-called semester procedure, allowing the commission to give recommendations on national budgets. The commission asks Rome to engage in a "constructive dialogue" and to answer before noon on Monday 22 October.

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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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