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Congress, meanwhile, is in recess for the next week.

In a statement issued on Saturday, five European countries said that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by Russia.

Navalny died in a Russian prison two years ago.

NPR's Rob Schmitz reports from Munich.

Four people traveling on NASA's Crew-12 rocket have now arrived at the International Space Station.

As NPR's Lydia Kalitri reports, the crew will be spending the next eight months conducting experiments to prepare for human exploration beyond Earth's orbits.

And you're listening to NPR News.

The U.N.

's Human Rights Office says more than 6,000 civilians were killed last October during three days of fighting in Sudan's Darfur region.

The U.N.

says the deaths were caused by the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces, and officials say the attack included war crimes along with possible crimes against humanity.

Many people the group says were targeted for their ethnicity.

At the Olympics, a preliminary curling match has been marred by accusations of cheating, and as NPR's Ping Huang reports, it got heated on the ice.

Six players were ejected from Saturday's college basketball game between St.

John's and Providence after a fight sparked by a hard foul by Friars forward Duncan Powell.

Several players were removed for coming off the bench.

The game was also delayed for almost 20 minutes as the referees sorted out the ejections, which included four players from St.

John's.

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