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U.S. to impose new Russia sanctions over spy poisoning in U.K.
The Trump administration says it is consulting with Congress about additional sanctions on Russia over the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in Britain this spring. The State Department says Russia has failed to meet a 90-day deadline that fell on Tuesday to comply with a ...
Russian website names third GRU officer involved in Salisbury nerve agent poisoning
The Russian news website Fontanka named on Wednesday a third GRU military intelligence operative, Sergey Fedotov, as having been involved in trying to kill ex-spy Sergei Skripal in the English city of Salisbury. The website said records show Fedotov visited Britain in 2016, 2017 and ...
Ukraine minister says Sergei Skripal poisoning suspect helped Yanukovic flee in 2014
Ukraine's interior minister said on Tuesday a suspect in the Skripal poisoning case, working for Russian military intelligence, had been identified in Ukraine as a man who helped the former Ukrainian president flee to Russia in 2014. It was not immediately clear whether minister Arsen ...
An activist with Russian protest punk band Pussy Riot said Wednesday he was "convinced" he was poisoned by Russia's secret service, possibly for looking into the killing of three Russian reporters in Africa. Pyotr Verzilov, who was discharged from a hospital Wednesday and has both ...
No link to Sergei Skripal poisoning in new Salisbury scare: U.K. police
A couple who fell ill in the British city of Salisbury over the weekend had not been in contact with the nerve agent used to poison a Russian ex-spy and his daughter, police said Tuesday, confirming there was no link between the incidents. Parts of ...
British police said there is nothing to suggest the nerve agent Novichok was involved in an incident in which two people became ill at a restaurant in the English city where a Russian ex-spy and his daughter were poisoned. The police closed roads in the ...
Planes, trains and fake perfume: How Novichok arrived in Britain
The sheer audacity of Russia's chemical-weapon attack on the U.K. can be traced through the journey of a small — and fake — Nina Ricci Premier Jour perfume bottle. It contained Novichok, a lethal Soviet-era nerve agent, and was smuggled from Russia into Britain on ...
Britain deepened its diplomatic feud with Moscow on Wednesday, charging two men it says are Russian military intelligence officers with the nerve-agent poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a double agent who betrayed the service by spying for the West. But U.K. authorities acknowledged there was little ...
Britain urges U.S. and Europe to 'go further' in countering Russia
New British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Tuesday will urge the United States and European countries to do more to call out Russia's "malign behavior" and keep Vladimir Putin in check, notably by implementing tough sanctions. "The established rules of international conduct are repeatedly being ...
U.S. slaps sanctions on Russia over March nerve agent attack on ex-spy in Britain
The United States will impose new sanctions on Russia for illegally using a chemical weapon in an attempt to kill a former spy and his daughter in Britain this year. The sanctions come despite President Donald Trump's efforts to improve relations with Russia and its ...
U.K. preparing to ask Moscow to extradite Novichok nerve agent attack suspects: Guardian
The British government is preparing to ask Moscow to extradite two Russian citizens suspected of carrying out the Salisbury nerve agent attack, a media report said Monday. The Guardian newspaper, citing unnamed government and security sources, said state prosecutors had prepared the extradition request and ...
Novichok survivor recalls 'oily' substance in perfume bottle he gave to girlfriend
A British man poisoned with Novichok said in interviews released Tuesday that he was lucky to be alive after giving a perfume bottle that contained the nerve agent to his girlfriend, who later died. Charlie Rowley, 45, said he was amazed he survived after handling ...
