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19th Mar 2024

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EU urges calm after Putin's nuclear threat

Dutch leader Mark Rutte, the Belgian prime minister Alexander de Croo, and the EU Council chairman Charles Michel have urged calm after Russian president Vladimir Putin threatened to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia. "His rhetoric on nuclear weapons is something we have heard many times before, and it leaves us cold," Rutte said. "It is all part of the rhetoric we know. I would advise to remain calm."

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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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