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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 ...
Russian suspects in U.K. nerve agent poisonings claim they visited Salisbury as tourists
The two Russian men spun an unlikely tale of hapless tourists defeated by grim British weather: They traveled more than 1,000 miles to see England's famed Salisbury Cathedral but were turned back by slush and snow, then returned the next day and spent two ...
Accused for crimes committed abroad, Russians become celebrities at home
The last time Britain accused two Russians of an assassination, one of them ended up in the Russian parliament. The case of Andrei Lugovoi, a key suspect in the 2006 killing of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, shows how the two alleged Russian military intelligence operatives ...
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 ...
Chemical weapons watchdog confirms U.K. nerve agent findings that Novichok killed woman
The global chemical weapons watchdog on Tuesday confirmed findings by British authorities that the Novichok nerve agent killed one person and sickened another in the English town of Amesbury in June. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said that its tests showed that ...
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 ...
Suspects identified in Novichok poisoning of Skripals in U.K.
British police have identified several Russians who they believe were behind the nerve agent attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, the Press Association reported on Thursday, citing a source close to the investigation. Skripal, a former colonel in Russian military intelligence ...
