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19th Mar 2024

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Merkel wins fourth term, exit polls say

German chancellor Angela Merkel was elected for a fourth term in office on Sunday, according to exit polls published by the ARD broadcaster. Her CDU-CSU party won 32.5% of the votes, trouncing the centre-left SPD on 20%. The far-right AfD party burst into parliament for the first time with 13.5%. The liberal FDP made a comeback with 10.5%. The Greens got 9.5% and the far-left Die Linke got 9%.

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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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