Russia, Britain spar over poisoned spy
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Russia's top prosecutor said Friday that Russia could prosecute the chief suspect in the fatal poisoning of a former KGB agent if Britain presents enough evidence, but his counterpart in London demanded that the suspect face trial in a British court.
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Prime minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown should tone down the government&#39;s approach in its diplomatic row with Russia over the poisoning of former spy Alexander Litvinenko, Russia&#39;s ambassador to London said in an interview published Wednesday.
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Russian prosecutors investigating the  poisoning in Britain of former spy Alexander Litvinenko on  Monday accused British officials of failing provide the  appropriate cooperation.
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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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Britain is using the case of murdered  Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in a political campaign  that is harming ties with Russia, Interfax news agency quoted  Russia&#39;s foreign minister as saying on Friday.
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The Kremlin fought back against accusations its secret agents murdered a man in Britain for the first time since the Cold War on Friday, as President Vladimir Putin faced European leaders at a summit in Helsinki.
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Britain was Wednesday waiting for a response from Russia, which has said it is planning a &quot;targeted and appropriate&quot; reply, in the ongoing diplomatic dispute between the two countries.
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Russia complained on Wednesday about a "long delay" in the British response to its request to send investigators to London for inquiries into the poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.
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British police are working out how former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko might have been poisoned with a highly toxic radioactive substance, and who could be behind it.
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Russia on Monday cleared the way for British detectives probing the mystery poisoning of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko to visit Moscow, and promised to help their investigation.
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Russia is expelling four British diplomats in retaliation for a similar move by Britain, news agencies reported Thursday, as the dispute between Moscow and London over the case of poisoned KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko escalated.
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The mysterious poisoning of an ex-KGB spy has heightened debate over the nation's direction.
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Britain on Monday made an official request to Russia to extradite the man suspected of killing ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210, deepening a rift between the former Cold War foes.
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LONDON -- Russia plans to send investigators to London to conduct inquiries into the death of a former KGB agent, the chief prosecutor's office said yesterday, as forensic teams combed two houses in Germany and a London hotel now at the center of the investigation into his poisoning.
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Russia's chief prosecutor ruled out on Tuesday any extraditions to Britain over the poisoning in London of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko but said he would help British police in their inquiries in Moscow.
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MOSCOW -- Russia has refused Britain's request to extradite a businessman accused in last year's fatal poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, prosecutors said yesterday.