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19th Mar 2024

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EU offers help to Lebanon after port explosion

France, Italy, and the UK offered aid to Lebanon after an explosion in Beirut killed some 100 and injured 4,000 on Tuesday. The blast, initially blamed on chemical stockpiles in a port warehouse, was heard in Cyprus. "The EU stands ready to provide assistance and support," EU Council president Charles Michel said. It had also made available its "Copernicus" satellite observation system, EU crisis management commissioner Janez Lenarčič said.

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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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