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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison in Russia after being poisoned with a deadly toxin found in the skin of Ecuadorian dart frogs, the UK and other allies have revealed.

The Russian state has long been accused of using exotic poisons to murder its opponents - whether the nerve agent Novichok or radioactive plutonium isotopes. Could Alexei Navalny have been killed by the toxin of a poisonous frog?

Donald Trump says regime change in Iran "would be the best thing that could happen" as a second US aircraft carrier is deployed to the Middle East.

Around 200,000 people demonstrated against the Iranian regime on the sidelines of a gathering of world leaders on Saturday.

Sky News understands Iranian doctor Yaser Rahmani-Rad has been arrested and held after accusing the country's security forces of arresting injured protesters inside hospitals and removing medical equipment, "because they deserve to die".

The US military has said it attacked more than 30 Islamic State targets in Syria earlier this month in retaliation for the deaths of two US soldiers and an American civilian interpreter in an IS ambush two months ago.

Two British men are among three skiers who died after an avalanche struck the Val d'Isere ski resort in the French Alps, local officials have said.

Matt Weston has won gold in the men's singles skeleton competition, Team GB's first medal at the Winter Olympics in Italy.

Wagner Moura and Kleber Mendonca Filho, star and director of political thriller The Secret Agent, have been delayed, slightly, I'm told.

In the Middle East, nothing is ever straightforward, and so it was.