The United Kingdom and several European allies have concluded that Russia murdered opposition leader Alexei Navalny using a poison derived from a dart frog toxin. Two years after Navalny's death in a Siberian penal colony, the UK, along with France, Germany, Sweden, and The Netherlands, have blamed the Kremlin for the assassination, according to reports from BBC World and Fox News.
The joint statement from the NATO countries, released on Saturday, expressed confidence that the Russian government poisoned Navalny with a "lethal toxin" known as epibatidine, found in South American poison dart frogs. The frogs are not native to Russia. Speaking from the Munich Security Conference, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper stated that "only the Russian government had the means, motive and opportunity" to use the poison while Navalny was imprisoned.
Russian news agency Tass dismissed the findings as an "information campaign." However, Cooper stated there was no other explanation for Navalny's death.
In other news, a French rape survivor, Gisèle Pelicot, shared her experience with BBC Newsnight. Pelicot, the central figure in France's largest rape trial, described feeling "crushed by horror" upon discovering her husband had repeatedly drugged and raped her. "Something exploded inside me," she said, recalling the moment she realized the scale of her husband's crimes.
Meanwhile, in the realm of technology, an AI safety researcher, Mrinank Sharma, resigned from US firm Anthropic with a warning that the "world is in peril." In his resignation letter shared on X, Sharma cited concerns about AI, bioweapons, and the state of the wider world. He plans to pursue writing and poetry, and move back to the UK.
In sports, Sweden's Ebba Andersson made a remarkable recovery to win a silver medal in the women's 4 x 7.5 km relay after a crash. Andersson, who lost a ski in the fall, persevered to keep Sweden in contention.
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