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19th Mar 2024

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Ireland votes for EU election and divorce referendum

Irish polling stations opened at 7AM on Friday for local and European elections plus a referendum to change the constitution on divorce. Ireland elects 13 MEPs, two of them to take their seats only after Brexit. Results will be announced when polls close elsewhere in Europe on Sunday. The turnout in Irish EU elections five years ago was 52.4 percent, well above the EU average of 42.6 percent.

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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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