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19th Mar 2024

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British PM faces mounting rebellion

British prime minister Boris Johnson has been weakened after his chancellor and health secretary resigned in complaints about Johnson's dishonesty. Both men — Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid — are seen as potential Conservative Party leadership contenders. The anti-Johnson rebellion comes after he lied about a fellow minister's track record of sexual misbehaviour as well as trying to cover up a series of Covid lockdown-era illegal parties.

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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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