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19th Mar 2024

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Commissioner hearings will start 30 September

The European Parliament's committees will hold the hearings of the commission-designates from 30 September to 8 October, according to a timetable agreed by the political groups and parliament leaders on Thursday. The parliament will hold the final vote on the new commission on 23 October. Commissioner-designates will have until 26 September to answer written questions from the various committees in their field.

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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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