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Rescue operations for migrants in distress in the Mediterranean Sea do not entail additional migrants, according to a study. Rather, worsening conflicts, natural disasters and rising food prices at home are determining factors for the departure of migrants. The study refutes an argument made by politicians such as Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, who sees bailouts as an additional motivation, a so-called pull factor, for potential migrants. Since 2014, more than 20,000 migrants have lost their lives or are reported missing. Most of them drowned.

Myanmar's former head of government, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been in prison since the military coup in 2021. A military junta has sentenced her to more than 33 years in prison. As part of an amnesty for more than 7000,<> prisoners on the occasion of Buddhist Lent, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate is to be pardoned. However, the measure will only apply to some of their alleged offences. More than 3800 people have been killed since the coup.

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The self-proclaimed military government in Niger warns against intervention to restore democracy. The heads of state and government of the 15 members of Ecowas and the representatives of the eight-member West African Economic and Monetary Union and Chad want to discuss how to proceed on Sunday in Abuja in neighbouring Nigeria. France suspends its budget support to the West African country. France is calling for an immediate return to the constitutional order around elected President Mohamed Bazoum. The African Union (AU) called on the Nigerien military to restore constitutional order and retur...

Three Ukrainian drones are said to have reached the Russian capital. Again, there is a civilian casualty in Ukraine after a Russian missile attack. And: Kiev announces advance near Bakhmut. The façade of two office buildings in the "Moscow City" business district was damaged, including the 50-storey "IQ Kwartal building", which houses the offices of three Russian ministries. A total of three drones were shot down, the Russian Defense Ministry said, according to a report by the state news agency Tass.