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19th Mar 2024

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Wallonia's Magnette leaves national politics

Belgian Socialist leader Paul Magnette, who became famous last year for opposing the EU-Canada free trade agreement (Ceta) and threatening to derail it in the last minute, is leaving national politics. He announced Monday he would quit the Walloon assembly and focus on his role as mayor of Charleroi. Wallonia will play a crucial role again because it, alongside national and some other regional parliaments, still has to ratify Ceta.

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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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