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19th Mar 2024

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Irish immigration officers flew back business class

Irish immigration officers flew business class flights when returning from deporting illegal immigrants, a Freedom of Information query has revealed, the Irish Times reported. There were 860 "repatriation" flights booked last year, most of them on economy class, while the bill totalled €164,865 for business class flights. The Irish state can recoup 75 percent of the cost of the flights from the EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund.

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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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