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Russian Opposition Leader Found Guilty of Embezzlement

Alexei Navalny handed five-year suspended sentence in embezzlement case.

Russia's most prominent opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, has been handed a five-year suspended sentence after being found guilty in a re-trial of an embezzlement case.

Also in the programme, the United Nations makes an emergency appeal for aid in Yemen and should we be worried about badly cooked rice?

(Photo: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks in court. Credit: Sergei Shistarev/Komsomolskaya Pravda via AP)

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