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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the UK has sanctioned officials running the Arctic penal colony where Russian opposition figure and critic of President Vladmir Putin Alexei Navalny died, saying Britian and its allies were considering "all options to hold Russia and Putin to account". "He died for a cause to which he dedicated his whole life - freedom - and to return home knowing that Putin had already tried to have him killed is one of the most courageous acts of our time," he tells members of parliament. SOUNDBITE
State Department spokesman Ned Price says the United States is imposing sanctions on Russian officials after US intelligence concluded that Moscow orchestrated the near fatal poisoning of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. SOUNDBITE
Images show the scene after an unknown gunman opened fire near an office of Russia's FSB security service in central Moscow, causing casualties and prompting the security service to "neutralise" the shooter. The gunfire broke out around 18:45 local time (1545 GMT) by the office, in an area close to the main headquarters of the FSB security service in Lubyanka Square the heart of the Russian capital. IMAGES
Ambulance and police are on standby after gunfire broke out in central Moscow near an office of the FSB security service. Several videos shot from different vantage points showed armed men running out of the office as gunfire rang out, with some reports from Russian security services saying there were casualties and they had 'neutralised' the shooter. IMAGES
Russian director Yevgeniya Berkovich and writer Svetlana Petriychuk appear in a Russian military court, where they were sentenced to six years in prison for "justifying terrorism" in a 2021 play about women marrying jihadists in Syria. The pair were sentenced following a closed-door trial, after the women's arrest in May last year sent shockwaves through Russia's artistic community. IMAGES
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.
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