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19th Mar 2024

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Spain's princess fined for tax fraud, husband sentenced

Spain's Princess Cristina has been cleared of tax fraud, but must still pay some €265,000 in fines from unknowingly benefiting from illegal gains in a case stemming from to 2010. Her husband, Inaki Urdangarin, was sentenced to a six-year-and-three-month jail term. Urdangarin was accused of inflating government contracts, hiding some €6 million stolen funds in offshore accounts.

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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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