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Major UK/Moscow diplomatic row in the making: nerve gas was used in murder attempt in Salisbury

Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:10 UTC
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British Home Secretary is to make a Commons statement on the Salisbury poisoning mystery amid calls for a police investigation into 14 suspicious spying-related deaths in recent years. Amber Rudd will report to MPs on the dramatic disclosure by Scotland Yard that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a deadly nerve agent and targeted in an attempt to murder them. Read full article

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  • SH

    The British are weak. What can they do?

    Mar 08th, 2018 - 02:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    Skripal is Russian and Russia is one of a few countries that have the capacity to produce nerve gas and surely it is in Russia's interest to get rid of a dissident. Who else on earth would want him dead.Very few countries can produce nerve gas so Russia would be on my list.

    Mar 08th, 2018 - 03:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Room101

    SH: Wait and see.

    Mar 08th, 2018 - 04:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • SH

    Well I ain't going to hold my breath. You British let the Ruskies do whatever they like in your country.

    Mar 09th, 2018 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • DemonTree

    We don't let them buy our head of government.

    Mar 09th, 2018 - 06:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clem

    The question is why is this piece appearing in Mercopenguin, a British government propaganda organ supposedly devoted to America, South America and the “South Atlantic”?

    Mar 10th, 2018 - 05:54 am - Link - Report abuse -1
  • :o))

    @SH

    Weak or Otherwise, what can the Brits do, EFFECTIVELY? As such they already are running “short of breath” - thanx to Brexit.

    Mar 12th, 2018 - 10:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • cryptojane

    The question is why is this piece appearing in Mercopenguin, a British government propaganda organ supposedly devoted to America, South America and the “South Atlantic”?

    Mar 16th, 2018 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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