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19th Mar 2024

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No-deal Brexit danger 'very serious', Corbyn says after Brussels meeting

Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called the danger of Britain leaving the EU without a deal 'very serious' after a meeting Wednesday with EU negotiator Michel Barnier. Corbyn, whose Labour party lost eight MPs in protest of his Brexit policy and rising anti-semitism in the party, said he discussed the UK staying in the EU's customs union which could end the Brexit impasse, but ruled out by the UK government.

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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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