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19th Mar 2024

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Swedbank brings in external help on money laundering revelations

Swedish lender Swedbank has hired external auditors EY to check its books after Swedish Television revealed at least 40bn Swedish crowns (€3.8bn) were moved between accounts at Swedbank and Danske Bank in the Baltic states between 2007 and 2015, when Danske Bank was involved in a huge money laundering scandal there. The Swedbank revelations saw 14 percent of its share value wiped out in one day.

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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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