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An earlier photo caption provided an incorrect translation of graffiti featuring Alexei Navalny on a wall in St. Petersburg, Russia. The graffiti read "Hero of a New Time," not "Hero of our time." ...

Prison officials in Russia say opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in an Arctic penal colony. They say they're investigating his cause of death. Navalny had been in shaky health after surviving ...