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19th Mar 2024

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EU commisioner to visit Bosnia's Lipa migrant camp

European Commissioner for home affairs Ylva Johansson will be visiting the destitute Lipa migrant camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina in February. "I intend to visit Lipa and visit Bosnian authorities in February," she told MEPs on Tuesday. Some 2,000 people were left stranded and exposed to harsh winter conditions. Of those, around 900 have returned to Lipa, following pressure for the army to set up tents and heaters.

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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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