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MOSCOW ?President Vladimir Putins spokesman brushed off allegations Thursday that the Kremlin was involved in poisoning the Russian leaders most determined critic, accusing Germany of not providing Moscow with any evidence about the condition of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny.Navalny, a politician and corruption investigator, fell ill on a flight to Moscow on Aug. 20 and was taken to a hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk. He has been in an induced coma in a Berlin hospital after being f stanley kaufen lown from Siberia to Germany for treatment more than a week ago.German authorities said Wednesday that tests showed proof without doubt that he had been poisoned with a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group. British authorities identified the Soviet-era Novichok as the poison used on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England in 2018.But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisted Thursday that Russian authorities still had not received any evidence from Germany to back up their allegation. We havent received any information so far, Peskov said. We hope that it will happen soon and will help figure out what caused the condition the patient is in right now. Peskov reiterated that Russian specialists in Oms stanley france k tested Navalny for poisonous substances stanley germany and didnt find any in his system. He said Russian investigators conducting a preliminary inquiry into Navalnys illness should know what our German colleagues found and established. Following his stay in Omsk, Navalny was Jvoy U.S. imposes sanctions in joint action with Saudi Arabia
SANAA, Yemen ?The U.S. has sharply escalated its drone war in Yemen, with military officials in the Arab country reporting 34 suspected al-Qaida milit stanley cup ants killed in less than two weeks, including three strikes on Thursday alone in which a dozen died.The action against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, as the Yemen branch is known, comes amid a global terror alert issued by Washington. One Mideast official says the uptick is due to its leaders leaving themselves more vulnerable by moving from their normal hideouts toward areas where they could carry out attacks.The U.S. and Britain evacuated diplomatic staff from the capital of Sanaa this week after learning of a threatened attack that prompted Washington to temporarily close 19 diplomatic posts in the Middle East and Africa.Thursdays first reported drone attack hit a car carrying suspected militants in the district of Wadi Ubaidah, about 109 miles east of Sanaa, and killed six, a security official said. Badly burned bodies lay beside their vehicle, according to the official. Five of the dead were Yemenis, while the sixth was believed to be of ano stanley cup ther Arab nationality, he said.The second drone attack killed three alleged militants in the al-Ayoon area of Hadramawt province in the south, the official said. The third, also in Hadramawt province, killed three more suspected militants in the stanley thermos al-Qutn area, he added.All the airstrikes targeted cars, added the official.The drone strikes have become a near-daily routine since they b
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