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19th Mar 2024

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Greek PM on migration: 'Greece has reached its limits'

Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a speech that the first priority for the new European Commission should be managing migration, Ekathimerini reports. He said that "Greece has reached its limits," adding that "we need a common system on asylum that will replace Dublin." Mitsotakis pointed out that Greece receives an average of 500 asylum seekers a day and called the situation on the Greek islands "unmanageable".

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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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