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19th Mar 2024

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15,000 Belgian school kids march against climate change

Some 15,000 Belgian school children on Thursday marched to show their support against climate change. The latest demonstration is the sixth in a series of protests by Belgian school students against the broad lack of action to slow global warming. The movement initially kicked off last year in Sweden when a 15-year old skipped school to demand action. Her climate action protest has since mushroomed across the world.

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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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