President Bush nominated an intelligence veteran, former National Security Agency Director Mike McConnell, to be the country's second national intelligence director. In a reshuffling of his national security team, Bush also chose his former top spymaster, John Negroponte, to be deputy secretary of state. Complete Story
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Two more people have shown signs of low-level exposure to polonium-210, the rare radioactive isotope that killed former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, British health authorities said Wednesday.
Ten people have shown signs of low-level exposure to polonium-210, the rare radioactive element that killed one-time Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko, British health authorities said Thursday.
Russian prosecutors said Wednesday they are investigating the possible role of a former owner of the Yukos oil company in the radiation poisoning death of one-time Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko.
An Italian who met with an ex-KGB agent the day the Russian fell fatally ill from radiation poisoning was arrested on Sunday, the man's father said.
Germany's foreign minister warned Thursday that the assassinations of two vocal Kremlin critics had the potential to damage Moscow's reputation and urged Russia to help with the investigations into their deaths. His Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, warned against "politicizing" the case.
British detectives investigating the poisoning death of a former KGB agent have ended their work in Moscow, as a key witness in the case faced a second round of questioning Monday, Russian news agencies reported.
A key witness in the radiation death of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko denied involvement in the poisoning Friday, saying he is being unjustly accused in the media.
Itsu, a new sushi restaurant in lower Manhattan, didn't need to spend a fortune on advertising to generate buzz before opening this week. Polonium-210 put it on the map.
Interpol said Tuesday it has joined the investigation into the poisoning death of a former Russian agent, in an effort to coordinate an inquiry that has pulled in witnesses and evidence in three countries.
German investigators have confirmed that a car used by a contact of a fatally poisoned ex-KGB agent before the two men met was contaminated with the rare radioactive substance polonium-210, police said Monday.
In 1942, the Gestapo circulated posters offering a reward for the capture of "the woman with a limp. She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies and we must find and destroy her."
German investigators have confirmed that a car used by a contact of fatally poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko before the two men met was contaminated with the rare radioactive substance polonium-210, police said Monday.
Russian dissidents close to Alexander Litvinenko said Saturday they were worried about coming face-to-face with Moscow investigators who plan to visit London over the ex-Soviet spy's death from radiation poisoning.
Russia plans to send investigators to London to conduct inquiries into the death of a former KGB agent, the chief prosecutor's office said Saturday, as forensic teams combed two houses in Germany and a London hotel now at the center of the investigation into his poisoning.
Russian investigators confirmed Saturday that they will question witnesses in Britain over the death of a former KGB agent as forensic teams searched two houses and a plane in Germany and a London hotel now at the center of the investigation into his poisoning.
A doorman in a bowler hat. A bellboy buzzing around a busy hotel lobby. A quarantined oak-paneled piano bar. Investigators focused on London's Millennium Hotel on Friday, as evidence grew that it was the scene of a sensational crime — the place where someone poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko with the lethal radioactive substance polonium-210.
A key figure in the poisoning case of former spy Alexander Litvinenko fell into a coma after being questioned by Russian and British investigators, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday. A lawyer close to the case denied the report.
Britain's Health Protection Agency said Thursday that seven workers at the Millennium Hotel, where former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko met a contact on the day he fell ill, have tested positive for "low levels" of polonium.
A former KGB agent was buried in a rain-swept London cemetery Thursday, his grave surrounded by Russian emigres and his body sealed in a coffin to prevent further contamination by the radioactive substance that killed him.
Russia will not extradite possible suspects in the poisoning of former spy Alexander Litvinenko to Britain, the prosecutor general said Tuesday.
It's a murder mystery filled with intrigue reminiscent of the Cold War — there's a retired Russian spy poisoned by a radioactive substance, a secret dossier, a slain investigative journalist and a shadowy fugitive billionaire.
Doctors carried out further tests Saturday on an Italian security expert who showed traces of the same radioactive substance found in a fatally poisoned ex-KGB agent.
The FBI is joining the British probe into the poisoning death of a Kremlin critic, the agency announced Thursday as investigators found traces of radiation at a dozen sites in Britain and a former Russian prime minister reported symptoms consistent with poisoning.