Navalny poisoning, Macron in the Middle East, Schools reopen in EU, Trump & Biden in Kenosha
By Abiodun Ogundairo
20 September 2020 |
8:47 am
It was Wednesday when the German chancellor herself came out to announce it was Novichok. German scientists had determined that Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin's most outspoken critic, was poisoned with the same Soviet-era nerve agent used against former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal two years ago in Salisbury, England. What happens next?
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