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19th Mar 2024

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Sanchez fails to be re-elected as Spain's PM on first attempt

Spanish centre-left prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, failed Tuesday to receive enough parliamentary support to be PM again in the first round of voting. Sanchez received 124 votes from MPs, against a needed absolute majority of 176. Another 170 voted against him, plus 52 abstentions. Sanchez, PM since June 2018, will face a second round on Thursday, where he needs a simple majority (more yes votes than no votes).

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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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