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19th Mar 2024

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UK exit poll gives Johnson majority of 86

The exit poll from the UK general election on Thursday night predicted a majority of 86 for the Conservative party of Boris Johnson, with 368 seats. Labour were behind, on 191 seats, the Scottish National Party (SNP) on 55 seats, and the Liberal Democrats a distant fourth on 13 seats. If that prediction translates into seats on Friday morning, it makes Brexit next month almost a certainty.

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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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