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19th Mar 2024

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Tusk all but rules out pan-EU candidates in 2019 elections

EU leaders will discuss the idea of transnational electoral lists, allowing candidates for the European Parliament to run in multiple countries this Friday - however, an EU source told EUobserver it was unlikely to be set up by the 2019 elections. "This project is not without merit and is certainly worth discussing in view of the 2024 elections," said European Council president Donald Tusk in a letter to leaders.

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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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