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19th Mar 2024

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EU job losses tell tale of pandemic damage

Some 397,000 people lost their jobs in the EU in April, as the pandemic continued to wreak economic harm, the European Commission has noted. The losses pushed unemployment rates from 6.4% in March to 6.6%. They also pushed youth unemployment (under 25s) from 14.6% to 15.4%. Unemployment peaked in the EU in 2013, at the height of the sovereign debt crisis, reaching 11.5% overall and over 25% for young people.

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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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