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19th Mar 2024

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Violence flares during police raids in north Kosovo

Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić promised to "protect" Serbs in Kosovo at a press conference on the border with his defence minister Wednesday after clashes between Kosovar police and ethnic Serbs in north Mitrovica, Kosovo, left some 20 people injured, one with a gun-shot wound to the shoulder, Reuters reports. Kosovo's interior minister, Xelal Svecla, said police raids were aimed at catching smugglers. "Most of those wanted are Albanians," he said.

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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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