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19th Mar 2024

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German bank fined for cheating Danish tax system

Germany's North Channel Bank in Mainz accepted on Monday to pay 110 million Danish crowns (€15m) in fines for assisting tax-fraud against the Danish state. The bank's CEO, Gunnar Volker, admitted it made €7.5m in profits on fictional trading of shares. A cross-border journalistic investigation, CumExFiles, revealed in 2017 that Europe's taxpayers were in total swindled out of €55bn through the scam.

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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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