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Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny shared a photograph from a Berlin hospital on Tuesday, sitting up in bed and surrounded by his family, and said he could now breathe independently after being poisoned in Siberia last month. The New York Times quoted a German official as saying Navalny had spoken to a German prosecutor about the incident and said he planned to return to Russia as soon as he recovered.

The advisory is likely to heighten tensions between the sides that have spiked since Beijing’s imposition on Hong Kong of a strict new national security law in June that has already been met with a series of US punitive actions.

Tens of thousands took part in demonstrations and school boycotts in Inner Mongolia to protest against an edict mandating Mandarin-language teaching, over fears it will wipe out their language. But then China crackdown with armoured vehicles surrounding schools in Tongliao and parents forced to send kids back to school. The clampdown echoes Beijing’s moves in Xinjiang and Tibet.

“According to press reports, Iran may be planning an assassination, or other attack, against the United States in retaliation for the killing of terrorist leader Soleimani,” Trump tweeted. “Any attack by Iran, in any form, against the United States will be met with an attack on Iran that will be 1,000 times greater in magnitude!”

Fraser, the bank’s president and head of its global consumer banking business, will succeed Michael Corbat, who has served as chief executive since 2012. Fraser was teed up as the bank’s next leader last year, when she was promoted to her current role.

Trinamool’s Rajya Sabha leader Derek O’Brien refuted Nadda’s allegations that the state government was hindering development in Bengal. He said the Trinamool government had launched Swasthya Sathi scheme in 2016, two years before the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat.

Senior advocate Vikas Singh said there was a long list of serious crimes in which conviction of a public servant led to his disqualification from holding a government job for his lifetime. “Why can’t the same yardstick be applied to politicians, he asked.

The deal would also trigger a three-way battle between Amazon-Reliance, Walmart-Flipkart and other players in the world’s second most populous country where the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated a shift in consumer behaviour from brick-and-mortar retail to e-commerce.