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19th Mar 2024

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MEPs approve over 55 gas projects for EU funding

MEPs on the parliament's energy committee (ITRE) approved on Wednesday the EU's list of priority energy projects, which includes more than 55 gas projects - now eligible for EU funding under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). NGOs say the projects put the climate-neutrality goals of the Green Deal in jeopardy. "There can be no truly Green Deal with more fossil gas," said Colin Roche of Friends of the Earth Europe.

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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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