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19th Mar 2024

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Markets snap up €20bn of new EU recovery bonds

The EU was set to raise €20bn from its first issue of 10-year bonds in its €800bn post-pandemic recovery fund, amid soaring demand for the triple-A rated financial product Tuesday, Reuters reports. Demand outstripped supply, with investors keen to buy up to €145bn on the day. The programme will make the EU the world's largest supranational debt issuer when completed. The fund is to help member states up till 2026.

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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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