,bbc,bbc news,news,world news,breaking news,us news,world,america,usa,usa news,india news,Path to the Presidency,Donald Trump,Trump,c-dvjFTz8G0,, Politics,Society,Television_program, channel_UC16niRr50-MSBwiO3YDb3RA, video_c-dvjFTz8G0,In this episode of Path to the Presidency, the BBC’s Sumi Somaskanda and Caitríona Perry are joined by North America Correspondent Anthony Zurcher to discuss Donald Trump's key policy priorities as it gets closer and closer to his inauguration.
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,bbc,bbc news,news,world news,breaking news,us news,world,america,usa,usa news,india news,ulwfZ2Gu79o,, Politics,Society,Television_program, channel_UC16niRr50-MSBwiO3YDb3RA, video_ulwfZ2Gu79o,Without action the world could warm by a massive 3.1C this century, the UN has said in a new report.
The UN Emissions Gap report indicates that if only “current policies” are implemented the world could warm by up to 3.1C.
This would be “catastrophic” for the world according to the UN, leading to dramatic increases in extreme weather events including heatwaves and floods.
The UN's predictions of temperature rise have stayed essentially the same over the past three years since countries met in Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit.
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,1,Tech billionaire Elon Musk has predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) will eventually mean that no-one will have to work.
He was speaking to UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during an unusual "in conversation" event at the end of this week's summit on AI at Bletchley Park, in England.
The 50-minute interview included a prediction by Mr Musk that the tech will make paid work redundant.
This comes as around 100 world leaders, tech bosses and academics are gathering there over the next two days to discuss how best to maximise the benefits of artificial intelligence - while minimising the risks.
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,1,Elon Musk says artificial intelligence is "one of the existential risks we face as world leaders attend a AI safety summit in the UK.
About 100 world leaders, tech bosses and academics are gathering there over the next two days to discuss how best to maximise the benefits of artificial intelligence - while minimising the risks.
Others have warned against speculating about unlikely future threats and said the world should instead focus on the potential present-day risks AI poses, such as replacing some jobs and entrenching bias.
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,1,Over the next two days, around 100 world leaders, tech bosses, academics and AI researchers are gathering at the UK's Bletchley Park campus, once home to the codebreakers who helped secure victory during World War Two.
They will take part in discussions about how best to maximise the benefits of artificial intelligence - while minimising the risks.
International delegates include US Vice President Kamala Harris and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. China is also sending a representative.
There has been some criticism that the guest list is dominated by US giants including ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google and Amazon - as well as Tesla and X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will livestream a conversation with Mr Musk on X on Thursday evening.
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,1,Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said it will use "enormous force" against the Hamas militant group.
He said Israeli retaliation in the Gaza Strip for the attacks by Hamas gunmen in Israel had only just begun.
About 900 people in Israel are now known to have died in the surprise attack, including 260 people massacred by Hamas gunmen at a music festival.
Since then, hundreds of Palestinians including many civilians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.
It’s widely expected that Israel will launch a ground offensive into Gaza, where around 130 Israelis are being held hostage by Hamas.
Lyse Doucet presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Jeremy Bowen.
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,1,Australia has launched an urgent operation to rescue a researcher with a "developing medical condition" from the remote Casey outpost in Antarctica.
The icebreaker RSV Nuyina left from Tasmania last week, the Australian Antarctic Program (AAP) said.
It is travelling thousands of miles to reach the station after an air rescue was ruled out due to harsh conditions.
The AAP said the researcher, an Australian, needs specialist treatment but did not name the condition.
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,1,President Joe Biden has toured wildfire damage in Hawaii after scrutiny of his administrations response to the state's worst ever natural disaster.
He arrived in Maui on Monday, 13 days after the deadliest wildfire in over a century, telling survivors the nation "grieves with you".
At least 114 people have died and 850 people are still missing - with Hawaii's governor saying many of the victims may be children.
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,1,A man who posted violent threats against US President Joe Biden and other officials online was shot dead during an FBI raid on Wednesday.
Agents were attempting to serve an arrest warrant on Craig Robertson at his home in Utah, just hours ahead of a planned visit to the state by Mr Biden.
A criminal complaint said Robertson posted threats on Facebook against Mr Biden and a prosecutor pursuing criminal charges against Donald Trump.
The FBI declined to give more details.
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,1,Wagner mercenaries have halted their advance on Moscow, after claiming to get within 200km of the Russian capital.
Leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has put out a voice note on his Telegram channel saying he has agreed to stop “to avoid bloodshed”, and it comes after talks between Prigozhin and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, who is understood to have been involved in “de-escalating” the situation.
But, after President Putin’s televised statement, in which he described the day’s events as “a knife in the back of our people”, it is unclear what the future holds for Prigozhin and Wagner, who have been a key part of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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,1,Russian president Vladimir Putin has vowed to punish mercenaries involved in an apparent armed mutiny.
Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has called for a rebellion against the army, and while he has denied attempting a coup, it is understood the group has taken the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don near the Ukraine border.
Prigozhin accused the army of launching a deadly attack on his forces in Ukraine, where Wagner troops are fighting for Russia – which Moscow has denied.
Now, in recent hours, security in Russia has been tightened, with internet restricted and military trucks spotted on Moscow’s streets.
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,1,Titanic director and submersible expert James Cameron has told the BBC that the deep submergence community had previously raised concerns about OceanGate's vehicle, and had even written to the company saying telling them "you are going on a path to catastrophe".
He compared the Titan's tragedy to the loss of the Titanic itself and her crew in 1912, calling it a "terrible irony".
"We now have another wreck that is based on unfortunately the same principles of not heeding warnings," he said, following the discovery of debris from the sub in the ocean.
All five men on board were killed when the sub imploded.
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,1,All five passengers on board the Titan submersible have died, the US Coast Guard has said.
Rear admiral John Mauger confirmed that five parts of the vessel were found approximately 1600ft from the bow of the Titanic wreck
The debris discovered was consistent with a "catastrophic implosion", he tells a news conference.
Speaking to the BBC, search expert David Mearns, who is friends of two of those who were on board the Titan sub said he has lost two friends in "the most horrific way"
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,1,A whistleblower previously voiced concerns over the safety of the missing Titanic submersible, court documents claim.
The 2018 documents reveal that an Oceangate employee raised issues about the safety and design of the vessel, named Titan.
Contact with the miniature sub, which has five people on board, was lost on Sunday as it made a 3,800m (12,467 ft) descent to the Titanic wreck.
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,1,Rescuers searching for a tourist submersible near the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic have heard "noises" in the area near where the vessel went missing on Sunday.
According to the US Coast Guard, a Canadian P-3 aircraft heard the sounds, which US Navy experts are analysing.
Underwater operations have been relocated to explore the source.
But so far the remote operated vehicles have "yielded negative results", the Coast Guard said.
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,1,A tourist submersible that went missing on a visit to the wreck of the Titanic with five people on board has just 40 hours of air left, the US Coastguard says.
The search to locate the small, deep-diving vessel is ongoing after it lost contact while diving near the wreckage of the Titanic.
The research vessel Polar Prince lost contact with the crew of the Titan sub an hour and 45 minutes into its dive.
Tour firm OceanGate said it was exploring all options to get the crew back safely, and government agencies have joined the rescue operation.
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,1,Search teams are racing against time to find a tourist submersible that went missing during a dive to the Titanic's wreck on Sunday.
Five people were onboard when contact with the small sub was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive.
The rescue operation is continuing in the mid-Atlantic but there has been no sign of the vessel so far.
US and Canadian agencies, navies and commercial deep-sea firms are all helping the rescue operation.
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,1,A massive search and rescue effort is under way in the North Atlantic after a submarine exploring the wreck of the Titanic went missing on Sunday.
The research vessel Polar Prince lost contact with the Titan submersible an hour and 45 minutes into its dive.
It is believed there are five people on board the submarine, including Hamish Harding, a 59-year-old British billionaire businessman and explorer.
The US Coast Guard estimates the sub has between 70 and 96 hours of emergency oxygen.
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,1,Russian missiles have hit Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, following two nights of heavy drone strikes.
They were all reportedly shot down and there are no reports of casualties.
Flaming debris from the intercepted missiles landed in residential areas in central Kyiv.
Russia has launched 16 air attacks on the Ukrainian capital this month. The latest, however, was unusual because it took place during the day - and seemed to be targeted at the city centre.
All other air assaults on the capital so far in May have taken place at night and appeared to be directed at critical national infrastructure and air defences on the outskirts.
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,1,Tens of thousands of mercenaries are fighting for Russia in Ukraine.
The so-called Wagner Group has been heavily involved in the country’s efforts to capture the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
At the head of the group is Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former hotdog salesman-turned-mercenary leader who now has a private army of Russian convicts at his service.
The BBC’s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins explains his rise to power.
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,1,Prince Harry, Meghan and her mother were involved in a "near catastrophic car chase" involving paparazzi, a spokesperson for the prince has said.
In a statement, the prince's spokesperson said the "relentless pursuit" in New York lasted for over two hours.
They added it resulted in near collisions with other drivers on the road, pedestrians and police officers.
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,1,The world's most famous shipwreck has been revealed as never seen before.
The first full-sized digital scan of the Titanic, which lies 3,800m (12,500ft) down in the Atlantic, has been created using deep-sea mapping.
It provides a unique 3D view of the entire ship, enabling it to be seen as if the wayer has been drained.
The hope is that this will shed new light on exactly what happened to the liner, which sank in 1912 - killing 1,500 people.
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,1,The Ukrainian capital Kyiv has been targeted by further Russian air attacks, described by one official as "exceptional in density".
Ukraine said all 18 missiles were shot down and footage showed air defences destroying targets over the city
Moscow has stepped up its air campaign in recent weeks, ahead of an expected Ukrainian offensive.
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,1,As Ukraine prepares for a much anticipated counter-offensive against Russian forces, BBC Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at the challenges facing Russia’s military.
Since Russia's President Vladimir Putin began the invasion of Ukraine, thousands of civilians and combatants have been killed or injured, cities and towns have been destroyed in fighting, and nearly 8.2 million Ukrainians have been registered as refugees in Europe, with 2.8 million of them in Russia.
In the past few days, President Volodymyr Zelensky has been on a European tour, in which he has been promised several billion dollars' worth of military equipment by Western allies, including UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President Emmanuel Macron of France.
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,1,Pakistan's Supreme Court has ruled that former prime minister Imran Khan's dramatic arrest on corruption charges this week was illegal.
The court ordered Mr Khan's immediate release. His lawyers had argued that his detention from court premises in Islamabad on Tuesday was unlawful.
At least 10 people have been killed and 2,000 arrested as violent protests have swept the country since he was held.
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,1,The UK has confirmed it is supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles it requested for its fight against invading Russian forces.
The Storm Shadow cruise missile has a range of over 250km (155 miles), according to the manufacturer.
The weapons will give Ukraine the "best chance" of defending itself, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said.
The Storm Shadow missile has been operated by both British and French air forces and has been used previously in the Gulf, Iraq and Libya.
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,1,Life in Ukraine is unrecognisable since Russia invaded in February 2022. But how has life in Russia changed since the invasion?
The BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg, who lives in Moscow, reports on the shift he has seen in the country from day-to-day life to how Russia portrays its history to its people.
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,1,SpaceX's Starship – the most powerful rocket ever built - has exploded in mid air after launching in its second attempt
There were tense scenes as the launch at Boca Chica, Texas was halted with two seconds to go, before getting the final go-ahead minutes later.
SpaceX staff clapped and cheered as the rocket slowly blasted off in a giant plume of smoke.
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,1,Controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been moved from custody to house arrest following a ruling by a Romanian judge.
The ruling by the Court of Appeal in Bucharest replaces the latest period of custody, which was to end on 29 April.
The brothers have been detained since December and are being investigated on allegations of rape, people trafficking and forming an organised crime group.
Both have denied wrongdoing.
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,1,People who identify as gay in Uganda risk life in prison after parliament passed a new bill to crack down on homosexual activities.
The bill, which includes the death penalty in certain cases, is one of the toughest pieces of anti-gay legislation in Africa.
Homosexual acts are already illegal in Uganda but this bill introduces many new criminal offences.
As well as making merely identifying as gay illegal for the first time, friends, family and members of the community would have a duty to report individuals in same-sex relationships to the authorities.
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,1,The head of the FBI in the United States has said that the coronavirus pandemic is "most likely" to have emerged from a “Chinese government-controlled lab”.
Speaking to Fox News, Christopher Wray said: "the FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident".
It is the first public confirmation of the FBI's classified judgement of how the pandemic virus emerged, but many scientists point out that there is no evidence that it leaked from a lab.
The White House has said there is no consensus across the US government on the origins.
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,1,Google is launching an Artificial Intelligence powered chatbot called Bard to rival ChatGPT.
Bard will be used by a group of testers before being rolled out to the public in the coming weeks, the firm said.
ChatGPT can answer questions and carry out requests in text form, based on information from the internet as it was in 2021.
But the ultimate aim of chatbots lies in internet search, experts believe - replacing pages of web links with one definitive answer.
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,1,The US has secured access to four additional military bases in the Philippines to monitor the Chinese in the South China Sea and around Taiwan.
With this deal, Washington has stitched the gap in the arc of US alliances stretching from South Korea and Japan in the north to Australia in the south.
The new additions and expanded access, according to a statement from Washington, will "allow more rapid support for humanitarian and climate-related disasters in the Philippines, and respond to other shared challenges".
The US already had limited access to five sites under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA).
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,1,Crowds of people are gathering in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia, ahead of the inauguration of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as president.
The veteran left-wing politician, known widely as Lula, also led the country between 2003 and 2010 - and defeated Jair Bolsonaro in October's poll.
There is tight security for Sunday's ceremony amid fears that Bolsonaro supporters may try to disrupt it.
Mr Bolsonaro himself will not attend, having left Brazil on Friday.
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,1,Online influencer Andrew Tate has been detained in Romania as part of a human trafficking and rape investigation.
Tate was detained alongside his brother Tristan following a police raid on his house the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
A spokesperson for the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) told the BBC that prosecutors had applied to hold the influencer at a "detention centre" for an additional 30 days.
Tate rose to fame in 2016 when he was removed from British TV show Big Brother over a video which appeared to show him attacking a woman.
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,1,Fresh protests have broken out in China over its Covid restrictions, after an apartment block fire killed 10 people in the city of Urumqi.
Authorities have denied that strict Covid rules prevented residents from escaping the fire, which has seemingly sparked further unrest in the country.
Footage shared on Chinese social media appeared to show demonstrators confronting officials, breaking down barriers, and shouting "end the Covid lockdown".
Beijing continues to pursue a zero-Covid policy, despite record infection numbers and growing public anger.
The western Xinjiang region, including its capital Urumqi, has been under restrictions since early August.
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,1,Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, has broken his silence for the first time since his loss to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the presidential elections.
In his brief speech, he thanked voters who had cast their ballots for him but did not acknowledge defeat.
Bolsonaro did not contest the result either, as some had feared he would.
Meanwhile, Bolsonaro's supporters, who refuse to accept that he lost, have erected hundreds of roadblocks across the country
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,1,The left-wing former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has defeated far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the country's presidential election.
Lula won 50.9% of the votes after a campaign which saw two sides of the political spectrum go head to head.
The election represents a huge comeback for Lula, who could not run in the last presidential election in 2018 because he was in jail and banned from standing for office.
Lula spent 580 days in jail before his conviction was annulled and he returned to the political fray.
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,1,Russia is scrambling to pull its military personnel and citizens out of the city of Kherson ahead of a Ukrainian counter-offensive.
Ukrainian father Dmytro Bahnenko reflects on the months he and his family lived there under occupation and secretly filmed for BBC Eye at great personal risk.
Dmytro, whose day job had been as a local reporter, never thought he'd be filming the invasion of his home city.
Along with his wife Lidia, Dmytro struggles to shelter their five-year-old daughter Ksusha from the war as she increasingly senses the danger around her.
Kherson was the first major city to fall to Russian forces when they invaded Ukraine in February and he began filming the family's lives when Russian soldiers first marched past their window on 1 March.
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,1,Some adventurers have been saving for decades for the chance to see the Titanic shipwreck up close.
For 110 years, the Titanic has sat at the bottom of the North Atlantic, and seen only by a handful of researchers and explorers.
Renata Rojas, who has wanted to see the wreck since she was a child, is among travellers now paying up to $250,000 to see it.
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,1,The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has begun a tour of Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan - with no mention of a possible visit to Taiwan.
There has been intense speculation that she may visit the self-ruled island.
Taiwan is claimed by China - which has warned of "serious consequences" if she goes there. No high-ranking US elected official has visited Taiwan in 25 years.
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,1,China has warned of "serious consequences" if US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi were to proceed with her visit.
Second in line to the presidency, after the vice-president, Ms Pelosi would be the highest ranking US politician to travel to the island since 1997.
This has angered China, which sees self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province that must become a part of the country, and Beijing has not ruled out the possible use of force to achieve this.
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,1,The monkeypox outbreak has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
The classification is the highest alert that the WHO can issue and follows a worldwide upsurge in cases.
It came at the end of the second meeting of the WHO's emergency committee on the virus.
More than 16,000 cases have now been reported from 75 countries, said WHO director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
There had been five deaths so far as a result of the outbreak, he added.
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,1,Newsnight’s diplomatic and defence editor Mark Urban investigates what lessons we can learn the battlefield in the Ukrainian war. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog
In just two and a half months, the war in Ukraine has claimed tens of thousands of lives and flattened countless communities.
The intensity of this struggle has shocked many, even those military professionals across the world who now find themselves watching, trying to understand what lessons to draw about war and its future conduct.
How long could this conflict continue? Could we see a WWI stalemate? Are we witnessing the death of the tank?
Newsnight’s diplomatic and defence editor Mark Urban has been scouring Russian and Ukrainian accounts online and speaking to expert observers to discover more about what those early lessons might be.
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,1,Brazil's far-right president Jair Bolsonaro was elected four years ago, with major support specifically from black evangelical Christian women.
"He is not the type of politician who should govern a country... because he's disrespectful," said Tatiana Gonzaga, one young evangelical Brazilian who is leading a movement against Bolsonaro on TikTok.
This October Bolsonaro will run for re-election against the left-wing former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
In 2018, nearly 70% of evangelical Christians voted for Bolsonaro, nicknamed "the Trump of the Tropics" - but this year that support looks like it might be waning.
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,1,One of President Putin’s justifications for his invasion of Ukraine is that he wants to "denazify" the country.
Ros Atkins looks at the distortions and untruths that Russia is spreading about Nazis in Ukraine - including about the role of the Azov regiment, who are based in Mariupol and are part of Ukraine's national guard.
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,1,The most prominent opposition figure to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Alexei Navalny, has been found guilty of fraud and contempt of court.
He has been sentenced to nine years in a "strict regime penal colony" in a case rejected by supporters as fabricated.
Navalny was detained when he returned to Russia last year, after surviving a poisoning he blamed on the Kremlin. He is already serving three and a half years in jail for breaking bail conditions while in hospital.
Prosecutors accused him of stealing $4.7m (£3.5m) of donations given to his now banned organisations, including his anti-corruption foundation.
Delivering her verdict, Judge Margarita Kotova said Navalny had carried out "the theft of property by an organised group".
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