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19th Mar 2024

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Swiss to vote on ending EU free movement

Swiss people are voting in a referendum on Sunday on whether to end free movement with the EU, after the far-right Swiss People's party (SVP) called for the move. Polls indicate 63 percent of Swiss people want to maintain the status quo, even though a quarter of Switzerland's 8.6 million population has become foreign. "Migrants change our culture," and make "trains and streets become less safe", the SVP campaign 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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