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19th Mar 2024

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German glyphosate report 'copy-pasted' from industry

Parts of a German risk assessment of the weedkiller glyphosate was copy-pasted from contributions from industry, according to a report presented in the European Parliament Tuesday. The authors said 50.1% of the chapters assessing studies on health risks related to glyphosate were identified as plagiarism. This report was financed by three centre-left and left-wing political groups, and comes ahead of a vote on the conclusions of parliament's pesticides committee.

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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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