Ex-spy's death is deemed murder
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LONDON -- British authorities announced yesterday 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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Text of the statement dictated by former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko before he died and released by his friends on Friday:
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The former Prime Minister is killed by an assassin
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Russia launches a spying case over statements made by the man accused by the UK of killing former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.
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European ministers are to discuss the death of the former Russian agent, Alexander Litvinenko.
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Poisoned Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko was no spy for Britain, and such claims are no more than an attempt by the man accused of his murder to shield himself from justice, Litvinenko's widow said in an interview.
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LONDON, Nov. 25 -- An ex-KGB agent poisoned in London described in interviews before his death how he was ordered to hire assassins to neutralize potential rivals and whistle-blowers who threatened the Kremlin, according to excerpts published and broadcast Saturday.
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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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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who was apparently poisoned in London, has died.
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The Russian prosecutor general's office has said it had completed a joint inquiry with visiting British detectives into the poisoning death of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko.
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LONDON -- Police sent the results of a two-month investigation of the death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko to prosecutors yesterday, raising the possibility that a suspect could be charged with his murder.
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Detectives have been piecing together scraps of evidence on the mysterious death of a former Russian spy as the spotlight fell on the person he named on his deathbed as the man tracking him.
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Murdered Russian spy Alexander  Litvinenko was killed because of an eight-page dossier he had  compiled on a powerful Russian figure for a British company, a  business associate told the BBC on Saturday.
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The attorney general says the suspect wanted for the murder of a former KGB agent must be extradited.
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The Conservative are to call for  a government statement over the death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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MOSCOW, May 31 -- The former KGB agent whom British prosecutors have accused of poisoning another former agent in London said Thursday that the British intelligence service MI6 was a likely suspect in the killing.
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British detectives have been piecing together scraps of evidence on the mysterious death of a former Russian spy as the spotlight fell on the person he named on his deathbed as the man tracking him.