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19th Mar 2024

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Finnish presidential vote could go to second round

Finnish president Sauli Niinisto might get fewer than 50 percent of the vote on Sunday, prompting a run-off, according to a poll by Accuscore for Finnish newspaper Iltalehti out on Monday. It put Niinisto at 49.2%, followed by Green candidate Pekka Haavisto (13.6%), and Paavo Vayrynen (13.2%), an independent centre-right contender. It said Laura Huhtasaari, a blonde populist sometimes called Finland's Marine Le Pen, would get 7.8%.

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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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