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NERVE AGENT

Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 11, 2018
Russian website names third GRU officer involved in Salisbury nerve agent poisoning
The Russian news website Fontanka named on Wednesday a third GRU military intelligence operative, Sergey Fedotov, as having been involved in trying to kill ex-spy Sergei Skripal in the English city of Salisbury.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 4, 2018
Utah man arrested over suspected ricin-containing envelopes mailed to Trump, Pentagon officials: source
A Utah man was taken into custody on Wednesday as a suspect in the investigation of letters sent to Pentagon officials and President Donald Trump that were initially feared to contain the poison ricin, a law enforcement source said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 5, 2018
Novichok confirmed as nerve agent that left two Britons in critical condition near where Russian spy was struck down
Two British citizens were critically ill in a hospital on Wednesday after they were poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent, which struck down a former Russian agent and his daughter in March, Britain's top counterterrorism officer said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 22, 2018
U.K. decontamination finished at shopping center after nerve agent attack on Russian ex-spy
A shopping center in the English city where a former Russian spy was found collapsed with his daughter after a nerve agent attack more than two months ago has been successfully decontaminated, Britain's environment department said on Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 26, 2018
Trump may boot some Russian diplomats over nerve agent attack on ex-spy in U.K.: source
President Donald Trump is considering the expulsion of some Russian diplomats in the United States in solidarity with Britain over the poisoning of a former Russian spy in England, a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 21, 2018
23 expelled Russian diplomats leave Britain in nerve agent crisis, 23 alleged spies also get boot
Twenty-three expelled Russian diplomats and their families left London for Moscow on Tuesday as Britain and Russia traded recriminations over a nerve agent attack in England that has plunged relations into their worst crisis since the Cold War.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 19, 2018
OPCW inspectors analyze toxin used on former Russian spy; EU backs Britain
Inspectors from the world's chemical weapons watchdog on Monday began examining the poison used to strike down a former Russian double agent in England, in an attack that London blames on Moscow.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 14, 2018
Britain expels 23 Russian diplomats over chemical attack on ex-spy
Britain will expel 23 Russian diplomats in response to a nerve agent attack on a Russian former double agent in southern England, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday, adding it was the biggest single expulsion in over 30 years.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 14, 2018
Only Putin could be behind U.K. poison attack: 'incurable' toxin's exiled co-developer
A Russian chemist who helped develop the Soviet-era nerve agent used to poison a former Russian double agent in southern England said only the Russian government could have carried out the attack with such a deadly and advanced toxin.
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2018
U.K. TV may pull broadcaster Russia Today's plug over spy poisoning crisis
Britain's media regulator said Russia Today could lose its license to broadcast in the U.K. if Prime Minister Theresa May's government determines that Moscow was behind a chemical attack on a former Russian double agent in England this month.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 14, 2018
U.K. counterterrorism police probe death of Russian associate of late tycoon foe of Putin
British counterterrorism police were on Tuesday investigating the unexplained death of a Russian associate of late tycoon Boris Berezovsky but said the death was not thought to be linked to a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 12, 2018
May faces calls to retaliate against Russia after spy attack
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May faces calls to crack down on Russian influence in Britain amid reports that investigators have linked Vladimir Putin's regime to last week's poisoning of a former spy in a city southwest of London.

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