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19th Mar 2024

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Report: UK fears being dragged into EU virus bailouts

Extending the UK's Brexit transition period beyond 31 December could see the UK forced to pay for EU coronavirus bailouts, a Downing Street source has told Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper. "The EU will be increasing their budget, and bringing in all kinds of packages to deal with the consequences of the Covid-19 crisis," the source said. "Paying into this new budget ... is clearly not in the national interest".

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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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