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       Nikki Haley has won the Republican primary in the District of Columbia, notching her first victory of the 2024 campaign.

       Her win on Sunday at least temporarily halts Donald Trump’s clean sweep of primary votes, though the former president is likely to pick up several hundred more delegates in this week’s Super Tuesday races.

       Despite her early losses, Haley has said she would remain in the race at least through those contests. She has declined to name any primary she felt confident she would win, however.

       Following her loss in South Carolina - her home state - the former UN Ambassador said that Republican voters deserved an alternative to Trump despite his dominance so far in the campaign.

       The Associated Press declared Haley the winner Sunday night after D.C. Republican Party officials released the results. She won all 19 delegates at stake.

       “It’s not surprising that Republicans closest to Washington dysfunction are rejecting Donald Trump and all his chaos,” Haley spokesperson Olivia Perez-Cubas said in a statement.

       She noted that Haley was the first woman to win a Republican primary in history.

       Washington is one of the most heavily Democratic jurisdictions in the nation, with only about 23,000 registered Republicans in the city.

       Democrat Joe Biden won the district in the 2020 general election with 92% of the vote.

       Trump's campaign issued a statement shortly after Haley’s victory sarcastically congratulating her on being named “Queen of the Swamp by the lobbyists and DC insiders that want to protect the failed status quo.”

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       A girl, 7, has died after a boat attempting to reach the UK capsized on the Aa canal in France, which leads to the North Sea.

       The girl was one of 16 people travelling on the boat, travelling with her parents and three siblings.

       A statement from the prefecture responsible for the north of France said the boat capsized off the coast of the northern port city of Dunkirk on Sunday morning.

       The vessel was too small for the number of passengers, authorities said.

       The girl's father and her pregnant mother were rescued and taken to a hospital along with her siblings, the statement also said.

       Another couple, two men and six young children were also rescued and taken to a hospital with minor injuries, the statement said.

       On Wednesday, three people died during an attempt to cross the English Channel from France.

       In a statement, the maritime authorities overseeing French waters in the waterway said about 180 people were assisted Wednesday in four rescue operations coordinated by the French side.

       An estimated 30,000 people made the crossing in 2023, according to UK government figures released at the start of 2024.

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       The death of five construction workers on a building site in Florence in February has catapulted workplace safety to the forefront of Italian politics.

       In 2021, Italy registered the second-highest number of workplace victims in the EU after France, with the count expected to rise this year.

       Euronews correspondent Giorgia Orlandi travelled to Rome to report on new plans aimed at improving working conditions across the country.

       Watch the full report in the video above.