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19th Mar 2024

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Germans face €480 gas bill spike

Households in Germany are set for an annual €480 increase for gas as part of levy to wean the country off Russian supplies. German gas market operator Trading Hub Europe said it had set the charge at €2.419 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh). The levy will be imposed from October 1 and until April 2024 in an effort to ease the costs for its Russian gas importers.

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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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