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19th Mar 2024

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Catalonia has 'contingency plans' for independence vote

Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont said on Thursday that his government has "contingency plans" to organise a referendum on independence on 1 October, despite the Spanish government's efforts to prevent it. The vote has been ruled illegal by the Spanish constitutional court, but Puigdemont said he would continue anyway because he has "the support of the vast majority of the population" in the region.

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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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