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19th Mar 2024

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First official EP projection: EPP remain top, Greens fourth

The Greens are set to become the fourth-biggest party, according to the European Parliament's first official projections, with 71 MEPs, up from 52. The centre-right EPP would remain the biggest party with 173 MEPs. The socialists could end up with 147 MEPs, liberals with 102 and the far-left with 42. The conservative ECR is to get 58 seats, populists and nationalists could get 113 seats in total.

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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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