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19th Mar 2024

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MEPs call for tighter Facebook regulation after leak

Two MEPs have called for tighter regulation of tech firms after a Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, who is to testify in senate Tuesday, leaked papers showing it abused users' data. Haugen showed we must "not let large tech companies regulate themselves," Danish centre-left MEP Christel Schaldemose, who is rapporteur on the EU's new digital services law, said. "We need to regulate the whole system," German Green MEP Alexandra Geese added.

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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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