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19th Mar 2024

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Swiss vote to keep corona pass

Swiss people have voted to keep coronavirus vaccine-passes and other restrictions after some 60 percent of them said Yes in a referendum on Sunday. Just under two-thirds of Swiss nationals have been vaccinated, while infections are growing by some 50 percent a day. The referendum came amid a wave of recent anti-vax protests in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK, as Europe imposed its latest wave of lockdowns.

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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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