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19th Mar 2024

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EU secures deal with Novavax for potential Covid-19 vaccine

The European Commission announced on Wednesday that it had signed a preliminary deal for the purchase of 200 million doses of the promising Covid-19 vaccine developed by the US pharmaceutical company Novavax. The doses will be delivered between the end of 2021 and 2023, but the vaccine still needs to be approved by the European Medicine Agency. Nearly 60 percent of the adult population in the EU is 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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