Dutch health authorities said on Friday they have called in about 20 people for radiation testing after they stayed in a London hotel where poisoned former Russian FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko also spent time, Reuters news agency reports.
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December 17, 2006A Persian cat saved a family in Saransk, in the Russian Republic of Mordovia, by waking up his owner on smelling burning plastic, a local emergencies’ spokesman said Wednesday.
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December 13, 2006
German investigators are considering the possibility that polonium-210 was smuggled through the country and might be connected to the radioactive poisoning of a Russian security service defector in London, RIA Novosti news agency reports.
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A woman died Monday from burns suffered in a weekend blaze at a Moscow hospital, a city health official said, bringing to 46 the death toll from the Russian capital’s deadliest fire in decades, The Associated Press reported.
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December 12, 2006
Four people were hospitalized in Hamburg Monday, on suspicion they had been contaminated by polonium, the same radioactive substance that killed former Russian FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko, The New York Times reported.
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A priest and his family were killed on the weekend in an arson attack on their home in a Central Russian region.
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December 4, 2006Russian nuclear energy chief stated officially that a radioactive element of Polonium 210 which had caused death of former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko could not be obtained illegally in Russia, the Reuters news agency reported Friday.
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An Italian contact of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy who died of radiation poisoning on Thursday, has not been contaminated by the deadly Polonium 210, his lawyer said on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
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November 29, 2006A Russian lawmaker and billionaire industrialist was being treated in a hospital Monday for severe burns suffered when a sports car he was driving slammed into a tree and caught fire in southeastern France over the weekend, police said.
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November 28, 2006Russian officials today denied a report of an accident at a chemical weapons reprocessing site.
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November 23, 2006
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