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British police raced on Tuesday to identify the substance suspected of striking down a former Russian double agent convicted of treason in Moscow for betraying dozens of spies to British intelligence. Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer, Mark Rowley, said investigators needed to be “alive to the.... |
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Sergei Skripal, convicted of treason in Moscow, was once a colonel in Russia's GRU military intelligence service. He was given refuge in Britain after he was exchanged in 2010 for Russian spies caught in the West as part of a Cold War-style spy swap. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told Parliament.... |
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To claim that so many Italians have been contaminated by Satan, like some paranormal STD, is a significant aspersion. The Vatican has just set up a new exorcism training course , following an alleged increase in demonic possession. According to the Sicilian priest and exorcist Benigno Palilla,.... |
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The second person found unconscious in Salisbury alongside the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal is his 33-year-old daughter. Yulia Skripal was discovered on a bench next to her father on Sunday and is in a critical condition in hospital. She lives in Russia but was visiting the UK, the BBC.... |
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The force, which is working with Counter Terrorism Policing, said officers, paramedics and firefighters attended the scene. Temporary Assistant Chief Constable Craig Holden said the man and woman were being "treated for suspected exposure to an unknown substance". He added that they did not have any visible injuries. |
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Sergei Skripal — a 66-year-old ex-Russian military official who was convicted of spying for the UK — and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia, who was visiting him from Russia, are critically ill in a UK hospital after “suspected exposure to an unknown substance” Sunday. |
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Update 12.20pm: BBC reported that two Wiltshire police officers dealing with the incident had been admitted to hospital yesterday with "minor symptoms". The BBC said they had itchy eyes and wheezing and were released on Monday afternoon. Police Community Support Officers stand outside the Salisbury.... |
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On a Friday afternoon in late September, dozens of young black political hopefuls gathered at a restaurant in Northwest Washington to talk strategy and shore one another up. Nearby at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative.... |
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On the ballot are all statewide offices, including governor, lieutenant governor, railroad commissioner and comptroller. Several of those races could all but be decided Tuesday. Republicans have held control of all of the state's top elected positions for more than two decades, rendering the.... |
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People attend a commemoration service marking 35 years of the dead of Georgi Markov, a bulgarian disident killed in London in 1978, in a church in Sofia on September 11, 2013. Bulgaria is set to close a 35-year probe into the spectacular "umbrella killing" of dissident Georgy Markov in London in 1978, the prosecution in Sofia said Monday. |
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AUSTIN Texas voters will answer a lot of questions lingering over Texas politics in the country's first primary election Tuesday. Who will face off against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in November? Will the Bush legacy continue with George P. Bush at the helm of the Texas Land Office? Will a man who.... |
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