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RUSSIA

Navalny arrested on arrival in Moscow

Police detained opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Sunday when he flew back to Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport from Germany. Russia's FSIN prison service said in a statement it had detained Navalny for "multiple violations" of a 2014 suspended sentence for fraud, adding "he will be held in custody" until a court ruling. Navalny fell violently ill on a flight over Siberia in August and was flown to Berlin in an induced coma. The West concluded Navalny was poisoned with nerve toxin Novichok. The Kremlin denies any involvement. As the detention prompted a new wave of Western condemnation, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova hit back, telling foreign leaders to "respect international law" and "deal with the problems in your own country".

SOUTH KOREA

Samsung heir returns to prison after ruling

After a judge handed down a 30-month sentence for bribery and other charges, Samsung Electronics Vice-Chairman Lee Jae-yong returned to the same prison where he spent a year in 2017-18. Lee, 52, was charged with offering tens of millions of dollars in bribes to former president Park Geun-hye in return for assistance to his management succession. Lee was held in Seoul Detention Center when he was convicted of bribing an associate of Park and sentenced to five years in 2017. He was freed in 2018 after the sentence was reduced and suspended on appeal.

Agencies - Xinhua