British police end Litvinenko probe in Moscow: Ifax
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British detectives probing the murder of  former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko have wound up their  investigation in Moscow and are preparing to leave for home,  the Russian news agency Interfax said on Monday.
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The top prosecutor said Tuesday that Moscow will not extradite possible Russian suspects to Britain in the poisoning of the former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko and warned that British detectives would not be allowed to carry out interrogations in Russia.
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Russia's chief prosecutor said on Tuesday he would help British detectives in Moscow investigate the poisoning death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko but made it crystal clear his officials would be fully in control.
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Britain said on Monday it was expelling  four Russian diplomats over Moscow&#39;s refusal to extradite the  main suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.
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LONDON, Dec. 6 -- British authorities announced Wednesday that they are officially treating the fatal poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko as murder and have found traces of a radioactive substance at the British Embassy in Moscow.
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The British government's cultural arm,  caught in a political row between London and Moscow, said on  Thursday its Russian regional offices had halted work because  local staff were being interviewed by Russia's security  service.
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The police inquiry into Madeleine McCann's disappearance is almost over, Portugal's justice minister says.
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"Obviously we take that very seriously indeed. ... Any intimidation or harassment of officials is obviously completely unacceptable."  A British cultural organization accused Russian authorities on Wednesday of harassing its staff and said it had temporarily closed its offices in St. Petersburg.The British Council, which acts as the cultural arm of the British Embassy, said the director of its St. Petersburg office was followed and stopped by Russian law enforcement authorities and that intelligence agency officials had interviewed its Russian employees.British Foreign Secretary David Miliband described the Russian actions as an attack on the council. Britain's Foreign Office said Russia's ambassador to London was summoned for talks with British officials. Read more
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The Portuguese inquiry into missing British girl Madeleine McCann is reaching its end, the justice minister said Wednesday -- but rejected accusations of police failure.
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Russia has sent Britain a letter officially turning down a request to extradite the main suspect in the murder of Russian emigre Alexander Litvinenko, Interfax news agency said on Thursday.
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British police investigating the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko will go to Moscow to speak to witnesses who met the former Russian spy in London shortly before his death, a police source said.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov  said on Monday the Litvinenko affair was damaging ties with  Britain, which sent detectives to Moscow as part of the  investigation into the ex-KGB spy's death by poisoning.
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Police investigating the poisoning death of former spy Alexander Litvinenko have sealed off the London office of exiled Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky after finding traces of radiation.
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The Russian prosecutor-general rules out extraditing a former KGB officer to the UK over the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.
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A British investigation into the radiation poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has moved to Moscow, testing Russian authorities' willingness to cooperate with the probe.
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A British cultural organization at the center of a dispute between the Kremlin and Britain closed its office in St. Petersburg under pressure from Russiaâs intelligence service.
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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.