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19th Mar 2024

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HSBC to cut 35,000 jobs worldwide

HSBC has said it will slash 35,000 jobs, around 15 percent of its workforce, over three years as part of a major shake-up, the Guardian reports. The bank - which operates in 64 countries - said there would be "meaningful job cuts...in the UK", mainly affecting its head office operations as well as its global banks and markets business, which are largely London-based.

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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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