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19th Mar 2024

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EU leaders endorse creation of eurozone budget

EU leaders endorsed a French plan to create a eurozone budget on Friday at their summit in Brussels. The budget, which will be aimed only at improving competitiveness and supporting convergence, will be part of the EU's long-term budget starting in 2021. Its size will be determined as part of negotiations on the EU budget. Eurozone finance ministers were tasked with working out the details.

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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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