The United Kingdom and its allies announced on Saturday that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed using a poison derived from an Ecuadorian dart frog toxin, a neurotoxin classified as a chemical weapon. The announcement, made at a security conference in Munich, was described as a "barbaric" act by officials, according to Sky News.
The UK and its allies believe the toxin, which is 200 times stronger than morphine, was likely manufactured in a laboratory, rather than directly extracted from the frogs, according to Sky News. Germany's foreign minister stated that victims of the poison "suffocate in agony." The timing of the announcement was deliberate, aimed at grabbing global headlines, as naming the alleged perpetrator of such an assassination is a form of information weapon, according to Sky News.
Navalny died in a Russian prison. The Russian state has a history of using exotic poisons to murder its opponents, including nerve agents like Novichok and radioactive plutonium isotopes, as reported by Sky News.
In other news, at least 32 people were killed in simultaneous attacks on three communities in northern Nigeria on Saturday, according to police. Gunmen targeted Tunga-Makeri, Konkoso, and Pissa in the Borgu area of Niger state. Six people died in Tunga-Makeri, and 26 in Kosonko, according to Niger State police spokesman Wasiu Abiodun.
Meanwhile, a clone of Wikipedia called Jikipedia is turning the data from Jeffrey Epstein's emails into detailed dossiers on his associates, according to The Verge. The AI-generated dossiers include information on visits to Epstein's properties, possible knowledge of his crimes, and potential legal violations.
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