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19th Mar 2024

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Trump adds doubt to Denmark visit over Greenland

US president Donald Trump confirmed on Sunday plans to buy Greenland, an autonomous part of Denmark. "Strategically, for the United States, it would be nice," he said at a press conference in New Jersey. Trump said he will "certainly talk about it" with Danish officials if he visited Copenhagen as planned on 2 September. Danish PM Mette Frederiksen said Greenland was not for sale.

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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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