Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, officially the losing candidate in this month's contested Belarus election, has told members of the European Parliament that her country has gone through a "peaceful revolution."

She says the opposition is now ready to speak to the current government to negotiate the terms of a new election.

Tikhanovskaya expressed her belief that the country's opposition movement now consists of a majority of the country, and rejected being drawn into a geopolitical struggle.

"It is neither a pro-Russian nor an anti-Russian revolution. It is neither an anti-European Union nor a pro-European Union revolution. It is a democratic revolution. It is the striving of a nation to decide for itself," she said.

Mass protests began in Belarus on August 9, after the country's Central Election Committee announced that incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko had won re-election with 80% of the vote. According to the official results, widely believed to be falsified, Tikhanovskaya won just 10%. As thousands of people took to the streets, Belarusian security forces met demonstrators with rubber bullets and tear gas.

Tikhanovskaya noted how many Belarusians who took part in the protests were arrested and went missing, with "at least six people killed."

On August 14, she announced the creation of a Coordination Council to assist in the transition of power from Lukashenko. The body's is made up of seven members, including Svetlana Alexievich, a Nobel prize winner, and Pavel Latushko, a former Belarusian Minister of Culture.

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Anatoly Kalinichenko, the deputy director at the emergency clinic in Omsk, explained that "poisoning" was one of the initial suspicions when Navalny arrived there. That was why the activist was moved to the toxicology unit, [but] the final test results from two laboratories that found no toxic chemical substances that could be called poisons, or their residues.

Head Doctor Alexander Murakhovsky said that Omsk medics continued to treat Navalny and allowed his transportation to Germany only after his condition had stabilized. Omsk clinic "saved Alexey Navalny's life due to its great efforts, there is no doubt about that. The activist remains in stable but 'serious' condition. Our German colleagues are very grateful and also have no doubts that the patient's life was saved [by the Russian team]."

Berlin believes there's a 'certain probability' that Russian anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny was poisoned and that he requires personal protection. "We are dealing with a patient where there is a certain probability that he was poisoned," Steffan Seibert told a press conference.

However, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas sounded a note of caution, warning that it's necessary to wait for a statement by the doctors treating him before making judgements. Maas added that many facts relevant to the case are still missing. "I am one of those people who bases my views on facts," Mass said during a news conference. "Many facts are missing in the case of Navalny: medical and also likely criminological. We must wait for those (facts)."

German doctors are expected to talk about his condition later on Monday.

A medical examination of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a German hospital has found indications of poisoning, the Charite hospital said on Monday.

"The team of doctors examined the patient in detail after his arrival. The clinical findings indicate poisoning by a substance from the group of active substances called cholinesterase inhibitors," the hospital said in a statement.

The specific substance involved remains unknown. "Alexey Navalny's prognosis remains unclear; the possibility of long-term effects, particularly those affecting the nervous system, cannot be excluded."

A statement signed by Chancellor Merkel and FM Heiko Maas:

"According to a statement from the team of doctors at Charite, data from clinical studies indicates that Alexey Navalny was poisoned. Taking into account Navalny's prominent role among the political opposition in Russia, Moscow should thoroughly look into the exact circumstances in the case and "those responsible must be identified and held accountable."

The intervention may not go down well in the Kremlin, where it could be perceived as an ultimatum. Indeed, sources in Moscow suggest it could even be counterproductive, as Russia is notoriously prickly about external interference in its domestic affairs. It is also worth noting that Putin's press secretary has already promised a "full investigation" if it turns out Navalny has been poisoned. Doctors in Omsk had claimed that two different laboratories in Russia found no poisons in his system.

The deputy chief medic at the clinic in Siberia where Moscow protest leader Alexey Navalny was hospitalized last week says he received "dozens of threats" on social media, some of the more sinister ones even targeting his family. However, Dr Anatoly Kalinichenko says he bears no ill will toward Navalny. "This did not affect anything, we treated a man, and these [threats] were not his fault."

The hospital's Chief Medical Officer Dr Alexander Murakhovsky said that while he wasn't personally the victim of threats, his office received over 1,000 phone calls in about two days [and] disrupted normal functioning of the hospital, he claimed. "There were very many people, ambulances sometimes had a hard time getting through, everything was blocked. They filmed patients, brought in by the ambulance, which is unacceptable under any circumstances."

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Not historically a CNN fan, US President Donald Trump suddenly decided to thank the network for reporting on last night's Republican Convention - but the post stirred up a virtual bloodbath between his supporters and opponents.

Trump tweeted his appreciation earlier on Tuesday, saying the broadcaster's coverage of the "the vast majority of the Republican Convention last night" was "really good for CNN while at the same time being good for our Country."

"Thank you!" he wrote in the emotive tweet.

The comments section turned into an online battleground between those supporting the Republican cause and Trump's nomination, and those fiercely opposing it. "CNN covers disasters quite well,"one critic wrote, while another labelled the convention a "clown show."

Others disagreed, insisting CNN only did this because it failed to perform well while covering the DNC. Among its critics was Errol Webber, a Republican candidate for Senate, who wrote that "CNN wanted ratings. They know no one watched the DNC."

Moderate voices, meanwhile, complained about the difficulties of getting unbiased, bipartisan news these days.

Trump seems to have taken a short break from the years-long animosity between himself and CNN. He publicly accused the network of spreading a hostile narrative, with his campaign going as far as to sue it for "false and defamatory" coverage on a par with New York Times and Washington Post.

The US president and his team have never pulled their punches while taking CNN's reporters to the task. Jim Acosta has earned the title of a "rude, terrible person" directly from Trump, while host Brian Stelter was once called"one of the most dishonest propagandists in the media" by the president's lawyer.