The European Parliament voted 532-84 yesterday to approve a non-binding resolution to ask Germany to halt construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas line between Russia and Germany

The European Parliament voted 532-84 yesterday to approve a non-binding resolution to ask Germany to halt construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas line between Russia and Germany. The document also called on EU Foreign Ministers to draw up a new list of sanctions against Russia when they meet Monday. The legislators’ ire was caused by the August 20 poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Yesterday, a German lab identified traces of Novichok, a Russian military use nerve agent, on a water bottle retrieved from the Tomsk, in a hotel room occupied by Navalny just before he fell ill on a flight home to Moscow. This week, Navalny emerged from a coma in a Berlin hospital and posted a photo with his wife, Yulia.