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19th Mar 2024

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EU medical agency to decide on Pfizer and Moderna vaccines

The European Medicine Agency (EMA) announced on Tuesday that the pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Biontech/Pfizer have submitted data on their potential Covid-19 vaccines, in order to obtain a conditional market authorisation. The EMA is expected to express an opinion on the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on 29 December, while the discussion of the Moderna vaccine will take place on 12 January, according to the Financial Times.

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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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