German state officials have given cautious indications that a vial labelled "Polonium 210" found during an Easter egg hunt does not contain the potentially deadly substance, though they said this was ...

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(Reuters) - Russian prosecutors on Thursday launched their own murder investigation into the death of Alexander Litvinenko from radiation poisoning as the Russian former spy was buried at a ...

The notorious poisoning death of Russian whistle-blower Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006 has already inspired one documentary, Jos de Putter and Masha Novikova’s In Memoriam Alexander Litvinenko, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Huddled against the December chill, the wife and young son of Alexander Litvinenko led a small crowd of mourners on Thursday at a private London funeral while confusion surrounded ...

We don’t yet know what has led to Ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, to collapse on a bench on Sunday in the UK, but, a nerve agent has been implicated. 180 military personnel, ...

Jos de Putter and Masha Novikova recap the mysterious November 2006 poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former agent of the FSB (Federal Security Service, successor to the KGB) who won ...