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19th Mar 2024

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EU and Japan in favour of WHO reform

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and top EU officials said there ought to be an independent enquiry in future into the World Health Organisation's (WHO's) handling of the pandemic at a video-summit Tuesday. "We will need to work together in order to reform some international organisations," EU Council president Charles Michel said, referring to the WHO. "We share with Japan the same values: multilateralism, rule of law, democracy," he added.

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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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