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19th Mar 2024

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Liberal MEPs want Musk quizzed in parliament

The liberal Renew Europe group in the European Parliament on Tuesday in a letter asked parliament president Roberta Metsola to invite the new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, to a parliamentary hearing. Liberal MEPs warned that the standards applied by Twitter may be weakened, ahead of the European elections and amid the fight against disinformation. "Twitter cannot become a dystopian hellscape," MEP Dita Charanzová said, citing Musk.

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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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