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19th Mar 2024

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Borrell: EU needs armed force independent of US

Europe should be able to launch military operations overseas without US or Nato help in future, the EU's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, told US broadcaster PBS in New York Wednesday. "So there will be problems in our neighbourhood in which you [the US] will not intervene, and we should be able to do that on our own," he said, amid a renewed French push to create an EU army.

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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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