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19th Mar 2024

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Greens/EFA fail to agree on accepting Catalan MEPs

The Greens/European Free Alliance (EFA) coalition group in the European Parliament on Wednesday failed to reach agreement during a "reconciliation committee" on whether to accept the former head of the Catalan regional government, Carles Puigdemont, and a member of his cabinet, Toni Comín, as members. EFA already gave Puigdemont and Comín a green light to join the group. Now all Green/EFA MEPs are expected to vote on it.

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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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