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19th Mar 2024

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Last German polls confirm Merkel's lead

Two days ahead of German federal elections on Sunday, Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU party is credited with 36% of voting intentions, well ahead of Martin Schulz's SPD (21.5%). The far-right AfD party follows with 11%, ahead of the liberal FDP (10%). This would leave only two possible coalitions: CDU/CSU with SPD, or a so-called Jamaica coalition between the CDU/CSU, the FDP and the Greens, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper explains.

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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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