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Berlin dodges police racism probe after cops caught sharing Nazi content, saying GERMAN PEOPLE need investigation instead

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Days after dozens of officers were suspended for sharing Nazi-related content online, the German interior minister stubbornly refuses to investigate racism in the police ranks, saying the entire society needs to be examined. … Read More >Berlin dodges police racism probe after cops caught sharing Nazi content, saying GERMAN PEOPLE need investigation instead

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Russian opposition figure Navalny posts photo of himself walking down stairs, says he expects full recovery from alleged poisoning

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Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny shared a photograph of himself walking down a flight of stairs, on Saturday morning, explaining that he is slowly regaining his strength after purportedly being poisoned last month. … Read More >Russian opposition figure Navalny posts photo of himself walking down stairs, says he expects full recovery from alleged poisoning

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‘We’ve been through this in the Skripal case’: West’s Navalny poisoning claims driven by ‘sanctions itch’, Sergey Lavrov says

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If the allegations that Alexey Navalny fell victim to ‘Novichok’ didn’t exist, those fanning them would make something else up as an excuse to damage Russia, the country’s Foreign Minister said in an interview published on Friday. … Read More >‘We’ve been through this in the Skripal case’: West’s Navalny poisoning claims driven by ‘sanctions itch’, Sergey Lavrov says

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Associates of ‘poisoned’ opposition figure Navalny’s team could face 7 years in prison for taking evidence out of Russia

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Close aides of Alexey Navalny could end up in prison for removing evidence from Russia rather than reporting it to local investigators. They have admitted to exporting a water bottle with traces of a toxic substance to Germany. … Read More >Associates of ‘poisoned’ opposition figure Navalny’s team could face 7 years in prison for taking evidence out of Russia

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Navalny’s team say ‘bottle with Novichok’ was found in opposition figure’s Siberian hotel room after he fell ill on Moscow flight

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Traces of the poison Novichok were allegedly found on a water bottle in Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny’s hotel room in Tomsk, where he stayed the night before falling ill on a flight to Moscow last month. … Read More >Navalny’s team say ‘bottle with Novichok’ was found in opposition figure’s Siberian hotel room after he fell ill on Moscow flight

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Germany offers US billion-euro LNG investment deal to lift sanctions from Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline – report

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Berlin has offered to invest €1 billion in US liquefied natural gas (LNG) if Washington lifts sanctions against the Russia-led Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, newspaper Die Zeit reported on Wednesday. … Read More >Germany offers US billion-euro LNG investment deal to lift sanctions from Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline – report

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Merkel ‘ashamed’ of persistent anti-Semitism in Germany, as she attends anniversary of country’s largest Jewish group

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On the anniversary of the founding of Germany’s main Jewish group, Chancellor Angela Merkel slammed the increasingly “visible and uninhibited” racism and anti-Semitism in the country. … Read More >Merkel ‘ashamed’ of persistent anti-Semitism in Germany, as she attends anniversary of country’s largest Jewish group