Ex-Russian spy may have been poisoned
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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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MOSCOW, Dec. 7 -- Russian authorities have opened their own criminal investigation into the poisoning death of former spy Alexander Litvinenko, and are expanding the probe to include the attempted murder of a second man who met with Litvinenko in a London hotel last month.
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Scientists examined the corpse of a  former Russian spy in Britain on Friday to try to discover when  and how he ingested a fatal dose of radioactive material.
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British scientists probing the death of Alexander Litvinenko said on Friday a second man had been poisoned by the same type of radiation that killed the former Russian spy.
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Dmitry Kovtun, a contact of poisoned  Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, is suffering from acute  radiation poisoning, Interfax news agency said on Friday,  citing his medical notes.
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MOSCOW, May 31 -- The former KGB agent charged by British prosecutors with poisoning another former agent in London last November held a news conference Thursday to finger MI6, the British foreign intelligence service, as a more likely suspect in the killing.
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Scotland Yard traced the final steps of a former KGB spy turned Kremlin critic after officials determined he was poisoned by a rare radioactive substance
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A Russian ex-agent was poisoned after obtaining information for a UK firm, says an ex-associate.
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A Russian linked to a probe into the radiation poisoning of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko said he had been contaminated by the former agent in London weeks before the latter fell fatally ill.
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A radioactive substance was found in the body of a former Russian spy who died last night after accusing the Russian president of being behind a plot to poison him.
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A former Russian spy fighting for his life in a British hospital may have been given poison in a radioactive form to render it more lethal, the toxicologist treating him said on Tuesday.
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The radioactive substance that doctors believe killed a Kremlin critic and former Soviet spy could have come from Russia, but nuclear experts said Saturday it would be difficult for investigators to pinpoint blame for the death even if the origin of the toxin is determined.
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British scientists probing the death of  former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said on Friday a second  man had been poisoned by radiation.
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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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The Russian ex-agent was poisoned after obtaining information for a UK firm, says an ex-associate.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 8 -- A Russian businessman who met with a former Russian domestic intelligence officer in London the day the man fell ill from radioactive poison has himself become suddenly and seriously sick, Russian news organizations reported Thursday night.
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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.