Czech police hunt men wanted over Salisbury Novichok attack
Police in the Czech Republic are hunting two men whose passports match the names of the Russian nationals suspected of the Novichok poisonings in Salisbury.
Police in the Czech Republic are hunting two men whose passports match the names of the Russian nationals suspected of the Novichok poisonings in Salisbury.
The inquest into the Novichok poisonings in Wiltshire could become a public inquiry if issues of national security become relevant, a coroner has said.
The inquest into the death of Dawn Sturgess in Wiltshire three years ago will examine whether the Kremlin was responsible for the chemical attack, and where the substance used to poison her came from, a coroner has said.
The inquest into the death of Dawn Sturgess, who died after coming into contact with a perfume bottle containing the nerve agent Novichok, will be “fair, fearless and thorough”, the coroner overseeing the hearing has said.
A coroner is to hold a pre-inquest review into the death of Dawn Sturgess, who came into contact with a perfume bottle containing the nerve agent Novichok.
Coronavirus has shown how a “not very virulent pathogen can bring the world to its knees” and this will not go “unnoticed by bad actors”, a chemical and biological weapons expert has warned.
The public health chief charged with containing the Salisbury Novichok attack has recalled her “total disbelief” after the deadly nerve agent resurfaced several miles away months after the original poisonings.
The Salisbury Novichok attack helped prepare officers to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a police welfare chief.
Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with Novichok in Salisbury three years ago on Thursday.
The world could face more chemical attacks in the wake of the Novichok poisoning now people can learn how to make such weapons online, the Defence Secretary has warned.
More than 2,600 people have been arrested after protests erupted in at least 60 Russian cities to demand the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s most prominent foe.
Russian police arrested hundreds of protesters who took to the streets in freezing temperatures on Saturday to demand the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Showing a new television drama about the Salisbury Novichok poisonings to the families linked to the story was “very intense and moving”, according to the programme’s executive producer.
The parents of a police officer poisoned in the Salisbury Novichok attack have criticised plans for a TV drama about the incident.
The Novichok poisonings have inspired a new BBC drama.
Police are believed to have identified the suspected perpetrators of the Novichok attack on Russian former spy Sergei Skripal.
Police are believed to have identified the suspected perpetrators of the Novichok attack on Russian former spy Sergei Skripal.
International experts have finished their initial work collecting samples linked to the Novichok poisonings.
International experts have finished their initial work collecting samples linked to the Novichok poisonings.
Novichok was developed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s as a new kind of chemical weapon that would be harder to detect, more potent than existing nerve agents and exempt from the Chemical Weapons Treaty.