Ex-Spy's Poisoning Reads Like a Thriller
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It's a murder mystery filled with intrigue reminiscent of the Cold War _ there's a retired Russian spy poisoned by a radioactive substance, a secret dossier, a slain investigative journalist and a shadowy ...Comment
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned in London three weeks ago, died on Thursday, the hospital treating him said.
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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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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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MOSCOW -- 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 last night.
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Poisoning has been used throughout history as a political weapon, but by its very nature, it is a secretive method of killing that is designed to keep people guessing.
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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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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 close contact of Alexander Litvinenko, the ex-Russian spy who died after apparently being poisoned with radioactivity, is in a London hospital after testing positive for the same substance.
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A former prime minister said Thursday that he is certain that poisoning, most likely by opponents of the Kremlin, caused his mysterious illness a day after a former Russian spy died of radiation poisoning.
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A former KGB spy accused Vladimir Putin of his murder on Friday in a statement read out after his death, which British health officials said had been caused by a rare radioactive substance found in his body.
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A former Russian security agent who was fatally poisoned by a rare radioactive isotope accused a contact he met hours before falling ill of being involved in the poisoning, according to Russian billionaire and ...Comment
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Health experts investigating the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko from suspected poisoning said on Friday they had found a highly toxic radioactive isotope in his body.
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LONDON -- Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was fatally poisoned by a radioactive substance, traces of which were found in his urine, at his home, and at a London restaurant and hotel he visited the day he became ill, authorities said.
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Police are piecing together evidence on how Russian former spy and Kremlin foe Alexander Litvinenko may have been fatally poisoned.
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LONDON -- An Italian security consultant who tested positive for traces of the same radioactive substance that was found in the body of a fatally poisoned former KGB spy has not shown any signs of illness, doctors said yesterday. Mario Scaramella met with former Russian agent and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko at a London sushi bar Nov. 1. Later that ...
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LONDON/ROME  - An Italian contact of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said he believed both were targeted with a radioactive substance because of secrets they shared.