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Dissident author warns Russians in Europe to be on guard
AFP, Published on 20/10/2023
» FRANKFURT - Russian author Sergei Lebedev's novel "Untraceable", about an undetectable toxin used to target Kremlin critics, was released a few years ago but has taken on added resonance as alleged poisonings have multiplied.
'Organs failing': Russian activist's poisoning ordeal
AFP, Published on 03/10/2023
» PARIS - When Natalia Arno stands up for any length of time, her right side goes numb, as do her back and her face.
German police say probing suspected poisoning of Russian exiles
Published on 21/05/2023
» German police are investigating the possible poisoning of exiled Russians after a journalist and an activist reported health problems following a Berlin meeting of dissidents, a spokesman for the force said on Sunday.
UK concedes some crooks got ‘golden visas’
Published on 12/01/2023
» LONDON: The British government said on Thursday that a small number of people who had obtained “golden visas” for rich investors might have obtained their wealth through corruption or other illicit financial activity.
Ukraine war increases chemical weapons threat: watchdog
AFP, Published on 28/11/2022
» THE HAGUE - Russia's invasion of Ukraine has increased the threat from weapons of mass destruction including chemical munitions, the head of the world's toxic arms watchdog said on Monday.
Hacking gang targeted Qatar World Cup critics
AFP, Published on 06/11/2022
» LONDON - An India-based computer hacking gang targeted critics of the Qatar World Cup, an investigation by British journalists said on Sunday, as the Qatari government furiously denied it had played any part in commissioning the eavesdropping.
UK opens inquiry into death of woman caught up in Skripal attack
AFP, Published on 18/11/2021
» LONDON: Britain announced on Thursday a public inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, who was exposed to nerve agent Novichok after the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal in 2018.
Enough proof to charge third Russian over 2018 attack: UK
AFP, Published on 21/09/2021
» LONDON: British police on Tuesday said there was enough evidence to charge a third Russian man with the Novichok poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury in 2018.
Briton arrested in Germany for 'spying for Russia'
AFP, Published on 12/08/2021
» BERLIN - A British man suspected of spying for Russia in exchange for cash has been arrested in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday, in a highly unusual case compared to a Cold War thriller.
Ukrainian ambassador dies 'of heart attack' on Koh Lipe
Published on 30/05/2021
» SATUN: Ukrainian ambassador to Thailand Andrii Beshta, 45, died on Koh Lipe island off this southern province on Sunday morning, according to the provincial public relations office.