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Alexei Navalny's death
Britain considers new sanctions after poison report

The UK is considering new sanctions against Russia after the report concluded that Alexei Navalny was poisoned, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said, according to The Guardian.

In a television interview with the BBC, she said that the "deeply serious" accusation is the result of two years of evidence gathering.

- Only Russia had the ability, the motive and the opportunity to use this poison when he was in prison.

The investigation was carried out in cooperation with Sweden, Germany, France and the Netherlands. Biological samples from Navalny tested positive for epibatidine, an extremely potent poison that is only found naturally in poison dart frogs in South America.

Russia dismisses the whole thing as "weak Western lies".

Political situation in Hungary
Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar in victorious speech: “Our place is in Europe”

On Sunday, Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar kicked off his election campaign with a victorious speech in Budapest, writes the AP.

Magyar’s two-year-old party Tisza is “ready to govern,” he says. Tisza has led the polls for more than a year, and with two months left until the election, has just under 50 percent support. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his right-wing populist Fidesz have around 40 percent.

In stark contrast to Orbán’s annual speech the day before – in which he called the EU the biggest threat to Hungary, rather than Russia – Magyar promised in his speech to stop Hungary’s “slippage out of the EU.”

– Hungary’s place is in Europe. Not just because Hungary needs Europe, but because Europe needs Hungary, he says.

Tisza is usually described as a liberal-conservative, pro-EU center-right party.
Corruption in Ukraine
Former Minister Arrested in Ukraine's Corruption Scam

Ukrainian former Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko has been arrested at the border, the anti-corruption agency Nabu reports, according to Kyiv Independent. According to Ukraina Pravda's sources, the ex-minister was arrested on a train as he tried to leave the country.

Halushchenko is suspected of involvement in the largest corruption scandal in the country's history, which was uncovered in November. The equivalent of one billion kronor is believed to have been embezzled in the energy sector.

Nabu has come across recorded conversations in which some of the suspects in the investigation discuss bribes to a person codenamed "the professor", believed to be Halushchenko.

He became Energy Minister in 2021 and Justice Minister in July 2025. On November 10, Nabu raided his properties, and on November 19, he resigned.
Climate Threat • Global Challenges
Canada’s Climate Work Lagging Under Carney

Canada is missing its climate goals after a “slackening” last year, Mark Carney’s first as prime minister, a report by the Canadian Climate Institute shows, according to the Financial Times.

At the current rate, the country will not meet its own emissions targets for 2026, the Paris Agreement’s target for 2030 or the net zero target for 2050, according to the report.

Carney, previously a strong advocate of the green transition, has been sharply criticized by climate groups for investing in the oil and gas sector in response to Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Since taking office in April last year, Carney has, among other things, abolished carbon taxes and electric car subsidies, increased oil production and promised to double natural gas extraction.