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19th Mar 2024

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EU election-monitors were 'spies,' Maduro says

EU officials who went to monitor regional elections in Venezuela were "a delegation of spies - they weren't observers", president Nicolás Maduro said Sunday, Reuters reports. "They looked to stain the electoral process [in their report] and they couldn't," he said. The monitors said the vote was better than previous ones, but complained of "extended use of state resources in the campaign" and delays in opening of polling stations.

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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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