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19th Mar 2024

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New EU rules on shipping fuels dubbed 'disastrous'

"Flexibility" measures in a new EU policy on shipping emissions means liquid gas and biofuels will remain the cheapest ways to comply with European rules for at least 20 years, according to a leaked draft seen by The Guardian. "There's still time to kick out fossil fuels and stop the European Green Deal turning shipping's transition into an ecological disaster," NGO Transport & Environment said, favouring ammonia and hydrogen instead.

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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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