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19th Mar 2024

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Pro-EU liberal wins UK by-election

Liberal Democrat Sarah Olney unexpectedly gained a UK parliamentary seat in a by-election in Richmond Park, a southwest London district that overwhelmingly backed staying in the EU in June’s referendum. She defeated former conservative MP and pro-Brexit candidate Zac Goldsmith. Olney has pledged to vote against the invoking of Article 50 that starts Brexit talks. "We do not want a hard Brexit," she said in a speech after her victory.

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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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