September 3, 2020 News Brief

The German government said it had “unequivocal evidence” that Aleksei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader, was posioned with the nerve agent Novichok. Novichok is a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was also used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK in 2018. Germany condemned the attack …