7 d. ago Novichok poisonings, Russia’s role and UK response: key questions of inquiry

Innocent people were caught up in an assassination attempt on a former Russian spy in Salisbury in March 2018. How did this happen?The novichok attack on Salisbury in south-west England in March 2018 was an extraordinary event, sending shock waves across the world. The targeted man, the former Russian agent Sergei Skripal, recovered from an audacious assassination attempt, but an innocent British citizen, Dawn Sturgess, died. An inquiry was heard in Salisbury and London last year investigating the attack on the Skripals, the response of the emergency services and other public bodies, and how Sturgess was tragically caught up in an international incident. Here are some of the key questions it examined. Continue reading...

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1 week ago National Guard shooting victim Sarah Backstrom’s father pays heartbreaking tribute: Latest updates

West Virginia Guard member died on Thanksgiving as fellow service member Andrew Wolfe remains in critical condition after DC attack

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3 w. ago Poland says ‘everything indicates’ Russia was behind rail sabotage incidents – Europe live

Security spokesperson says the incident at the weekend was a terrorist attack ‘initiated by special services from the East’In a further confirmation of the inquiry lines in Poland, the Polish security services minister’s spokesperson Jacek Dobrzyński has just confirmed that “everything indicates” that Russian intelligence services were behind the rail sabotage incidents in Poland over the weekend.“The fact is that everything indicates that this ... we can already confidently call it a terrorist attack, was initiated by special services from the East,” he later added. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago WW3 fears as Putin 'preparing for war against NATO' after huge gas blast

The stark warning came from a top military general as Poland confirmed a key rail link between Warsaw and Ukraine was blown up in an 'unprecedented act of sabotage'

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3 w. ago Poland hints it suspects Putin over train explosion and 'unprecedented act of sabotage' designed to cause train disaster and mass casualties

Heavily hinting at suspected Russian involvement, Tusk said the perpetrators would be caught 'regardless of who their backers are'.

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3 w. ago Polish railway line is blown up in 'unprecedented act of sabotage' as Warsaw suggests 'foreign intelligence services' may have ordered attack

Polish authorities confirmed one act of sabotage and a second incident 'highly likely' to be sabotage over the weekend.

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3 w. ago Man charged over ‘sex attack on bus’ after being arrested in Glasgow city centre

A MAN has been charged following an alleged sex attack on board a bus. The Stagecoach service, from Kilmarnock to Glasgow, was pulled over by cops on the city's Bothwell Street. Officers were spotted escorting a 24-year-old man in handcuffs to a nearby police van. The alleged incident caused delays for fellow passengers before the...

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last month Hero train steward wakes in hospital after mass train stabbing in major update

Hero Samir Zitouni suffered serious injuries in the knife attack on an LNER train service from Doncaster to King's Cross which resulted in 11 people requiring treatment

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