Tensions Grow in Spy Poisoning Case
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British officials chose unusually sharp language to protest Moscowâs refusal to extradite the man accused of murdering a former KGB agent.
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A former Russian spy and fierce critic of the Kremlin who is fighting for his life in a London hospital may have been given a radioactive poison, a doctor said Tuesday.
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HONG KONG, Aug. 31 -- Supporters of a Hong Kong-based reporter expressed outrage after he was sentenced to five years in prison on espionage charges Thursday, and the chief executive of Hong Kong said his administration was "very concerned" about the case.
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Russia begins its own investigation into the poisoning of a former spy, to run parallel to a British inquiry.
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Andrei Lugovoy, a contact of poisoned  Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, is suffering from  radiation poisoning, Interfax news agency said on Friday,  quoting medical sources.
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British police said on Wednesday they were now treating the death of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko as murder, raising the stakes in an investigation that has extended from London to Moscow.
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Britain is monitoring a Russian plane and three British aircraft in an ever widening probe into the death from radiation poisoning of a former Russian spy that has heightened tensions with Moscow.
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The FBI and US police investigate the shooting of a friend of a former KGB agent poisoned in London.
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A former Russian spy fighting for his  life in a British hospital may have been given poison laced  with a radioactive substance to render it more lethal, the  toxicologist treating him said on Tuesday.
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MOSCOW --The former KGB agent accused by British prosecutors with poisoning another former agent in London last November held a press conference yesterday to say MI6, the British foreign intelligence service, was a likely suspect in the killing.
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Doctors are still trying to determine how a former Russian spy and prominent Kremlin critic was poisoned, but they have discounted suspicions that the toxic metal thallium was used, hospital officials said Tuesday.
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The resignations of two more senior CIA officials yesterday fueled debate in the intelligence community over whether the agency is tumbling
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The theory that Viktor A. Yushchenko was poisoned at a dinner has assumed the character of a cold war spy tale.
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The diplomatic struggle over Russia's refusal to extradite the man suspected in the poisoning death of a former KGB agent in London could hamper progress on an array of issues critical to the West.
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British scientists probing the death of Alexander Litvinenko said on Friday that two more people had been contaminated with the same radioactive poison that killed the former Russian spy.
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British police investigating the poisoning of a former KGB agent formally requested assistance from their counterparts in Russia, whose foreign minister warned Monday that continued suggestions of Kremlin involvement in the death could damage diplomatic relations.
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A growing rift between Russia and Britain over the London murder of a former Russian agent prompted warnings Thursday of a full scale diplomatic conflict, complete with tit-for-tat expulsions.