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19th Mar 2024

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MEPs call for 'awareness campaign' on autonomous car benefits

The European Parliament adopted a non-binding resolution on autonomous driving on Tuesday, with 585 MEPs in favour, 85 against, and 26 abstaining. It calls for more investment and said driverless cars would "reduce transport costs, improve road safety, increase mobility and reduce environmental impacts". It also called for "awareness campaigns to increase [the] confidence" of citizens in automated driving, acknowledging some citizens expressed "distrust" in self-driving cars.

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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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