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19th Mar 2024

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EU adds Anguilla, Bahamas and Turks and Caicos to tax-haven blacklist

EU countries agreed on Tuesday to include Anguilla, Bahamas and Turks and Caicos in its blacklist of tax-havens, as reported by EUobserver. The three Caribbean countries were added because, according to the commission, they have failed to enforce the economic substance requirements that apply to zero-tax jurisdictions. American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Palau, Panama, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago, the US Virgin Islands, and Vanuatu are also part of the list.

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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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