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19th Mar 2024

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Delta variant to be 'predominant in EU by end-August'

The EU's disease control agency (ECDC) said on Wednesday that the Delta variant will represent 90 percent of all Covid-19 cases in the EU by the end of August. The ECDC is calling to speed up vaccination, since preliminary data shows that those who have received only one dose could be also infected. About one-third of the elderly and 40 percent of individuals older than 60 are not fully-vaccinated.

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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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