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19th Mar 2024

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Trump threatens tariffs on EU wine

US leader Donald Trump has attacked France over wine exports in a veiled threat on imposing tariffs to protect US producers. "France makes it very hard for the US to sell its wines into France, and charges big tariffs, whereas the US makes it easy for French wines ... Not fair, must change!," he tweeted Tuesday. The US buys over 30 percent, or €7.5bn worth, of EU wines each year.

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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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