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# novichok

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Novichok poisoning public inquiry delayed amid heightened Russian tensions
Dawn Sturgess died in 2018 after being inadvertently exposed to the nerve agent on a discarded perfume bottle.
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EU imposes sanctions on Russian officials over poisoning of opposition leader
The decision was agreed upon among the 27 EU envoys to Brussels.
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Oct 15th 2020, 1:50 PM
Chemical watchdog confirms Navalny poisoned with Soviet-era nerve agent
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons carried out its own analysis of samples taken from the Russian opposition figure.
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Oct 6th 2020, 4:41 PM
Ireland joins condemnation of Navalny poisoning but EU says it's too early to discuss 'punishment'
Alexei Navalny last month became the latest in a long line of Russian defectors to be poisoned in suspicious circumstances.
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Sep 3rd 2020, 3:08 PM
Traces of nerve agent Novichok found in second Salisbury police officer's blood
The attempted assassination the Skripals was done using Novichok in March 2018.
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Aug 15th 2019, 3:34 PM
Home of Sergei Skripal declared safe one year after novichok poisoning
The final site of decontamination in Salisbury, the Skripal home, is safe following extensive cleaning.
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Mar 1st 2019, 1:25 PM
Parents of Novichok victim query why UK settled ex-spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury
Dawn Sturgess died after coming into contact with a nerve agent allegedly used in last year’s poisoning of Skripal and his daughter.
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Feb 16th 2019, 11:58 AM
Police release CCTV of Russian men involved in fatal nerve agent attack
Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found poisoned in the English city of Salisbury in early March.
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Nov 22nd 2018, 9:58 PM
Putin labels poisoned former spy Sergei Skripal a 'traitor' and a 'scumbag'
The Russian President was visibly angry when he was speaking about Skripal today in Moscow.
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Oct 3rd 2018, 6:20 PM
Suspect in British Novichok poisoning is actually a Russian colonel and former spy
British investigative team Bellingcat claims to have discovered that ‘Ruslan Boshirov’ is in fact FRU colonel Anatoly Chepiga.
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Sep 26th 2018, 10:50 PM
Russian suspects in Salisbury poisoning say they were in UK as tourists
The two men accused denied having anything to do with the murder attempt in an interview with Russian media.
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Sep 13th 2018, 2:03 PM
Putin says the two men named as suspects in Salisbury poisoning are 'civilians, not criminals'
Putin said the two men do not work for the military and called on them to come forward.
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Sep 12th 2018, 8:41 AM
Russians accused of carrying out Salisbury attack reportedly posed as businessmen to obtain visas
British authorities have issued arrest warrants for two suspected members of Russian military intelligence.
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Sep 7th 2018, 5:09 PM
Russia denies Putin ordered Novichok poisoning as UK points finger at Kremlin
British Security Minister Ben Wallace said the attack in Salisbury was “more Johnny English than James Bond”.
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Sep 7th 2018, 8:08 AM
Police release images of Russian men and fake perfume bottle involved in fatal nerve agent attack
Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found poisoned in the English city of Salisbury in early March.
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Sep 5th 2018, 1:25 PM
US hits Russia with sanctions over nerve agent attack in England
A former Russian spy and his daughter were exposed to Novichok in March.
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Aug 8th 2018, 8:46 PM
Britain asks world's chemical warfare watchdog to extend Novichok probe
Dawn Sturgess died after she handled what she thought was a bottle of perfume, given to her by her partner Charlie Rowley.
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Aug 7th 2018, 2:19 PM
Precautions in place to protect mourners at funeral of nerve agent victim
Dawn Sturgess was exposed to Novichok in England.
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Jul 29th 2018, 6:19 PM
'Wild speculation': Minister denies suspects behind attack on former spy have been identified
The suspects are believed to be Russian.
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Jul 19th 2018, 4:27 PM
'Painstaking and vital work' - Police investigating link between Novichok death and Skripal poisoning
They say that 400 items in total have been collected.
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Jul 14th 2018, 4:19 PM
Nerve agent Novichok that killed UK woman traced to bottle in her house
44-year-old Dawn Sturgess died last Sunday after being hospitalised following contact with the lethal nerve agent Novichok.
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Jul 13th 2018, 6:13 PM
Man exposed to Novichok nerve agent in UK is no longer critical, hospital says
Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, who has since died, fell ill last weekend in Amesbury, near the town of Salisbury.
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Jul 11th 2018, 1:51 PM
British man left critically ill after being exposed to Soviet-era nerve agent regains consciousness
The man’s partner Dawn Sturgess, 44, died on Sunday.
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Jul 10th 2018, 9:50 PM
Novichok poisoning: Police search for container they believe couple 'must have handled'
Dawn Sturgess and a man named locally as Charlie Rowley (45) fell ill last weekend in Amesbury, near the town of Salisbury.
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Jul 9th 2018, 2:13 PM
Public in Salisbury warned not to pick up unknown objects after couple exposed to nerve agent
Police are investigating if the latest nerve agent poisoning is linked to the last Salisbury incident.
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Jul 5th 2018, 1:10 PM
Daughter of ex-Russian spy poisoned by nerve agent refuses consular assistance from Russian embassy
Skripal was discharged from hospital on Monday, more than a month after the 4 March nerve agent attack.
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Apr 11th 2018, 9:27 PM
UK scientists unable to prove nerve agent was Russian-made
Analysts had identified it as military-grade Novichok, but they had not proved it was made in Russia.
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Apr 3rd 2018, 5:22 PM
Explainer: What we know about Russia's Novichok nerve agents
The agent is an ultra-fine powder, made up of several components that would have been mixed safely by the assassin.
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Mar 13th 2018, 7:00 PM
Moscow calls Britain's spy attack accusations a 'dirty attempt to discredit Russia'
The nerve agent Novichok is believed to have been used.
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Mar 13th 2018, 2:40 PM