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19th Mar 2024

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UK says credit downgrade was wrong

The British government has said US firm Moody's was wrong to downgrade the UK from an Aa1 to an Aa2 rating on Friday because it did not acknowledge British PM Theresa May's call, in a speech in Florence the same day, for a "new and unique partnership" with the EU. Moody's said it was "no longer confident" the UK would secure a "replacement free trade agreement" with Europe.

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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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