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A suspected extortion plot involving baby food took a significant turn on Thursday, when Austrian police said they arrested a 39-year-old man linked to a case in which rat poison was placed in jars of baby food. Authorities previously said five "manipulated" jars of the same HiPP baby food product were recovered safely last month in Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia before anyone could consume them. German ‌police said ⁠at the time that a sixth jar believed to have been in Austria has still not been located. "Today we…

Who killed Alexei Navalny? His widow’s claim reopens a fraught debate Yulia Navalnaya’s terse, emotional appeal this week — that two foreign laboratories have concluded her husband was poisoned — has turned a private grief into a renewed international crisis. Her demand that the laboratories publish their findings, and her insistence that “Alexei was killed,” sits at the intersection of personal loss, geopolitics and the fraught question of accountability inside a closed and increasingly securitized Russia. The allegation…

The signing of the Évian Accords on March 18, 1962 paved the way for Algerian independence in July of the same year. But the agreements included a clause that allowed France to continue carrying out nuclear tests in the Algerian desert, causing widespread radioactive contamination of the soil and air. Sixty years later, the victims have not been properly compensated and the extent of the damage poorly assessed. Report by Karim Yahiaoui and Jennie Shin of FRANCE 24.