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19th Mar 2024

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Poland's PiS party tops local elections

Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party came top in local council elections on Sunday, taking 32.3 percent of the votes, according to exit polls. The coalition of opposition parties took 24.7 percent and had its pro-EU candidate, Rafal Trzaskowski, elected mayor of capital Warsaw with 54.1 percent of the vote. PiS saw overall strong support in rural areas, while big cities backed the pro-EU Civic Platform opposition.

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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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