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19th Mar 2024

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Labour ousts Ukip in Brexit homeland

Labour have held onto the crucial MP seat in Stoke-on-Trent at by-elections on Thursday brushing aside Ukip leader Paul Nuttall. Ukip campaigned hard in the Stoke constituency, hoping to capitalise on the overwhelming 69 percent support for Brexit in the area in June's referendum. Meanwhile, Labour lost a separate same-day by-election in Copeland, a seat the party had held since 1983, to the Conservatives.

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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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