LONDON (AP) – President Vladimir Putin probably approved a plan by Russia’s FSB security service to kill former agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died three weeks after drinking tea laced with poison at ...

LONDON - President Vladimir Putin probably approved a 2006 Russian intelligence operation to murder ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210 in London, a British inquiry ...

LONDON — An Italian security expert who met with former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko the day he fell fatally ill has tested positive for the same radioactive substance found in the ex-spy's body, ...

Russia will not extradite possible suspects in the poisoning of former spy Alexander Litvinenko to Britain, the prosecutor general said Tuesday. "If they want to arrest them it would be impossible, ...

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(Reuters) - Russian prosecutors on Thursday launched their own murder investigation into the death of Alexander Litvinenko from radiation poisoning as the Russian former spy was buried at a ...

LONDON (AP) – The widow of poisoned former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko denies that he was working for British intelligence as the man charged with killing him has claimed. Andrei Lugovoi, a former ...

~ Some believe his death was carried out at the behest of the Russian government. LONDON -- A former Russian spy who said he had been poisoned died Thursday night at a London hospital, following a ...

The former spy lay dying in a London hospital–of what he didn’t know. (It wasn’t until after his death that Scotland Yard realized that the rare compound killing Alexander Litvinenko, 43, had left ...