Former Russian spy Litvinenko dead in mysterious poisoning
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died, doctors said, three weeks after being mysteriously poisoned in what critics alleged was a Soviet-style sting by Moscow's secret services, a charge denied by the Kremlin.
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Russia will help British detectives in  Moscow to investigate the poisoning death of ex-Russian spy  Alexander Litvinenko, but it will not extradite any suspects to  Britain, the chief prosecutor said on Tuesday.
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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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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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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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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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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 Russian spy may have been poisoned with radioactive thallium, the toxicologist treating him has said, after British counter-terrorism police took over the probe into what happened to him.
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LONDON -- Before Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian intelligence agent fatally poisoned in London last year, sought asylum in Britain, he first tried to flee to the United States, according to a new book that also offers fresh details of his uneasy life and relationship with the former KGB ...
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MOSCOW, Dec. 5 -- British detectives visiting Russia to investigate the poisoning death of a former Russian intelligence officer in London will face broad restrictions in their work here, a senior Russian official said Tuesday.
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Former Russian prime minister Yegor Gaidar discusses his sudden, mysterious illness the day after the death of former spy 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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Russia will help British detectives in Moscow to investigate the poisoning death of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, but it will not extradite any suspects to Britain, the chief prosecutor said on Tuesday.
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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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LONDON -- A former KGB agent poisoned in London said in interviews before his death that he was ordered to hire assassins to neutralize potential rivals and whistle-blowers who threatened the Kremlin, according to excerpts published and broadcast yesterday. Alexander Litvinenko, a fierce critic of Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, died Thursday of heart failure after becoming ill from what doctors ...
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Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko,  poisoned in London three weeks ago, has suffered a sudden turn  for the worse and is now very seriously ill, the hospital  treating him said on Thursday.
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko -- poisoned in London three weeks ago -- has taken a sudden turn for the worse and is now very seriously ill, the hospital treating him said on Thursday.