Robert Siegel talks with John Emsley, author of The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison, about the poisoning of Russian-spy-turned-Kremlin-critic Alexander Litvinenko. Litvinenko died last ...

Conspiracy theories continue over the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and polonium is suspected as the weapon of the alleged assassin.... Lighting Up The Investigative Path With ...

LONDON (AP) – A British judge says President Vladimir Putin probably approved a plan by Russia’s FSB security service to kill former agent Alexander Litvinenko. Judge Robert Owen said Thursday in a ...

LONDON (AP) — A British judge has published a report on the 2006 death of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, saying President Vladimir Putin probably approved a plan by the Russian security ...

(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 ...

LONDON, December 4 (Itar-Tass) — Boris Berezovsky has stopped financing the work of lawyers representing the widow of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko – Marina, at meetings of the Coroner's ...

Alexander Litvinenko, former KGB spy and author of the book "Blowing Up Russia: Terror From Within," is seen at his home in London in 2002. (Alistair Fuller/AP) FILE ...

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LONDON – The wife of an ex-KGB agent fatally poisoned in Britain and the Italian security expert he met the day he fell ill both showed traces of the same radioactive substance found in the dead man's ...

With a Swiss forensics investigation pointing to polonium-210 as a possible cause of Yasser Arafat's death, the radioactive element is back in the news. Confirming whether the Palestinian leader died ...