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19th Mar 2024

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EU bank to help Greece manage corona-recovery funds

The European Investment Bank (EIB) in Luxembourg is to manage €5bn of the €32bn that Greece is set to get in grants and loans from the EU's pandemic recovery fund, with a focus on green and digital-sector investments, Reuters reports. "It's in fact the first EIB cooperation to implement investments by the recovery and resilience facility anywhere in Europe," the bank's vice president Christian Kettel Thomsen said on Monday.

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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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