Second UK Officer Exposed to Novichok: Police
A second U.K. police officer was exposed to a Soviet-era nerve agent used in last year’s attack on a former Russian spy in the English city Salisbury, British detectives said Thursday.
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Russian Doctors Say No Poison Found in Jailed Kremlin Critic
Doctors at a Russian state facility on Wednesday said they had found no traces of poison in jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, but his physician dismissed the results as “completely absurd.”
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Putin Foe Sent Back to Jail After Suspected Poisoning
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was discharged from a hospital Monday even though his physician raised suspicions of a possible poisoning after he suffered facial swelling and a rash while in jail.
Read moreFormer Workers Petition for Access to Sealed Rocky Flats Documents
Community members and former facility workers petitioned a federal court Thursday for access to documents sealed 30 years ago during a grand jury investigation into the former Rocky Flats Plant where nuclear weapons were once manufactured.
Read moreUK Regulator Says Russia’s RT Broke Broadcasting Rules
Britain’s broadcasting regulator says Russian state-owned TV channel RT broke impartiality rules seven times after the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal.
Read moreRussia’s Putin Calls Poisoned Ex-Spy ‘Scumbag,’ Traitor
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called Sergei Skripal, the ex-spy who was poisoned with a military grade nerve agent in Britain, a traitor and a “scumbag.”
Read morePentagon: Packages That May Contain Ricin Found on Grounds
A Pentagon spokesman says authorities found at least two packages suspected of containing ricin, a poison made from castor beans.
Read moreKremlin Urges Britain to Share Its Poisoning Case Suspicions
The Kremlin said Friday it expects Britain to say what it knows about the identity of the two suspects in the nerve agent poisoning of a former Russian spy so that Russian officials can launch an investigation.
Read moreRussian Paper: Villagers ID Russian Suspect in UK Poisoning
Russia’s respected Kommersant daily has interviewed residents in a small village in the Far East who have identified one of the suspects in the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in Britain as a senior Russian intelligence agent.
Read moreGerman Doctors: Pussy Riot Poisoning ‘Highly Plausible’
By FRANK JORDANS BERLIN (AP) — German doctors treating a member of Russian protest group Pussy Riot said Tuesday that
Read moreKremlin: Britain Could Ask to Interrogate Poisoning Suspects
Russia is ready to consider a request by British investigators to come and interrogate the two men accused of poisoning a former spy, the Kremlin said Friday.
Read moreSpy Case Suspects Say They Were in UK as Tourists
The two Russian men charged in Britain with poisoning a former Russian spy with a deadly nerve agent appeared on Kremlin-funded television on Thursday, denying their involvement in the attack and saying that their appearance in the English city of Salisbury was merely an “incredible, fatal coincidence.”
Read morePutin Says Russia Identified Suspects in Novichok Poisoning
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia has identified the two men that Britain named as suspects in the poisoning of a former Russian spy, and that there is “nothing criminal” about them.
Read moreImplicated in Russian Murders, Scientist Sues State-Run News
Portrayed as a dissident and a killer on state-run news in Russia, a microbiologist from New Jersey brought a federal complaint for damages against Channel One Russia and RT America.
Read moreBritain Charges 2 Russians Over Novichok Poisoning
British officials announced Wednesday that they have charged two alleged Russian military intelligence agents with the nerve agent poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury — though they held out little hope of being able to bring them to justice.
Read moreJudge Finds Conspiracy to Kill Kim With VX, Women to Testify
Two women accused in the brazen assassination of the North Korean leader’s half brother were told Thursday to make their defense after a Malaysian judge found evidence they participated in a “well-planned conspiracy” to kill, extending their murder trial until next year.
Read moreMerkel, Putin Share a Headache: Donald Trump
By DAVID McHUGH, Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will have plenty
Read moreNew Russia Sanctions Over Poisoning of Former Spy, Daughter
New sanctions against Russia will be imposed later this month for illegally using a chemical weapon in an attempted assassination of a former spy and his daughter in Britain earlier this year, the United States said.
Read moreGermany: Ricin Plot Suspect’s Wife Arrested as Accomplice
German authorities on Tuesday arrested the wife of a Tunisian man detained last month over a plot to use the toxin ricin to carry out an attack in Germany, alleging that she was an accomplice.
Read moreInquest Opens Into British Woman Poisoned by Nerve Agent
A coroner has opened an inquest into the poisoning death of a British woman who was exposed to the nerve agent Novichok.
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