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19th Mar 2024

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300,000 people might soon flee Libya

Operation Sophia, the EU military mission to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean, has warned that more than 300,000 people might flee Libya and cross the Mediterranean if the situation there deteriorates. According to Buzzfeed, the EU-trained Libyan Coast Guard is also working less well, having responded to only 50 percent of rescue cases since last year. Some 3,800 people are estimated to have drowned in recent times.

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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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