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19th Mar 2024

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EMA to decide on Pfizer vaccine booster in October

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will likely decide in early October whether to endorse a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, to be given half a year after the initial two-shot course, Reuters writes. "The outcome of this evaluation is expected in early October, unless supplementary information is needed," the EMA head of vaccines strategy, Marco Cavaleri, told a press briefing on Thursday.

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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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