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19th Mar 2024

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EU investment bank to keep pressure on Turkey over gas

The European Investment Bank, a lending arm of the EU, has said it will keep restrictions on Turkey imposed in light of its gas drilling operations in Cyprus' waters. "Unless there is a change in direction at EU level, we will probably maintain the selective approach [to lending in Turkey] we have had in the past couple of years, at least for the foreseeable future," a bank spokesman told Reuters.

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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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