Poisoned Russian ex-spy deteriorates: hospital
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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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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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Russia's spy service said on Tuesday it had had no hand in the poisoning of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko -- and wished him a speedy recovery.
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LONDON, Nov. 19 -- British police are investigating the poisoning of a former Russian spy and outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin and have placed him under protective guard at a London hospital, a Scotland Yard spokesman said Sunday.
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A KGB agent turned Kremlin critic who was poisoned three weeks ago is in intensive care
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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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Doctors are still trying to determine how a former Russian spy and prominent Kremlin critic was poisoned, but they have discounted suspicions that the toxic metal thallium was used, hospital officials said Tuesday.
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MOSCOW -- A key witness in the poisoning death of a former Russian security agent was questioned yesterday by British investigators at the Moscow hospital where he was undergoing tests for radiation contamination.
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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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A Russian ex-agent was poisoned after obtaining information for a UK firm, says an ex-associate.
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Mystery over the poisoning of a former Russian spy and fierce Kremlin critic has deepened after contradictory reports about what exactly has left him fighting for his life in a London hospital.
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There has been a "major deterioration" in the condition of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, doctors say.
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A Russian businessman who met ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko falls into a coma, a Russian agency reports.
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A Ukrainian opposition leader and presidential candidate is in a Vienna hospital recovering from what his supporters said on Friday appeared to be an attempt on his life by political enemies who poisoned him.
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Ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who was apparently poisoned in London, has died.
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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 -- Russia plans to send investigators to London to conduct inquiries into the death of a former KGB agent, the chief prosecutor's office said yesterday, as forensic teams combed two houses in Germany and a London hotel now at the center of the investigation into his poisoning.