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19th Mar 2024

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Huge pro-EU march takes place in London

Seven hundred thousand people marched in London Saturday to call for a second referendum on Brexit. They were joined by pro-remain MPs, such as Anna Soubry and Sarah Wollaston from the ruling Conservative party. The situation in the UK risked causing "massive ... political damage", Britain's deputy foreign minister Alan Duncan said. A rival pro-leave rally organised in London the same day by eurosceptic MEP Nigel Farage attracted 1,200 people.

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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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