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19th Mar 2024

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Close race as polls open in Irish abortion referendum

Irish voters go the polls on Friday to decide whether to remove the a constitutional ban on abortion, and pave the way for laws legalising abortion up to 12 weeks into a pregnancy. More than 3.2 million people are eligible to vote. Two polls published this week showed small increases in the yes vote, with one putting it at 56 percent and another at 52 percent, but with turnout unpredictable.

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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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