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by Andrew Beatty / with AFP correspondents in Damascus © Agence France-Presse UNITED STATES (AFP) — The United States, Britain and France carried out a wave of punitive strikes against Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime on Saturday in response to alleged chemical weapons attacks that President Donald Trump branded the “crimes of a monster.” As Trump embarked on a White House address to announce the action — taken in defiance of Russia’s threat to respond — […]
by Alice Ritchie Agence France-Presse UNITED KINGDOM (AFP) — Britain’s government weighed the possibility of military action against Syria on Thursday, agreeing the “need to take action” despite polls showing the public remains wary of military intervention. Prime Minister Theresa May held an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss joining mooted strikes by the US and allies, with ministers agreeing “on the need to take action”, her Downing Street office said in a statement. Her office […]
by Joe Jackson with Anna Smolchenko in Moscow © Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The former Russian spy who was found slumped in an English city after being poisoned is no longer in critical condition and is “improving rapidly”, the hospital treating him said Friday. It was the first news of Sergei Skripal’s health improving since the 66-year-old ex-double agent and his daughter Yulia were found poisoned on a bench on March 4 […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Russia unleashed a blistering war of words against Britain and the United States at the UN Security Council on Thursday, again denying it was responsible for poisoning a former double agent in England. “It’s some sort of theater of the absurd. Couldn’t you come up with a better fake story?” Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, told the council. “We have told our British colleagues that ‘you’re playing […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — The head of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence agency said Wednesday the poisoning of a Russian former double agent in Britain was a “grotesque provocation” by the British and US security services. “Even when it comes to the grotesque provocation with the Skripals that was crudely concocted by the British and American security services, a number of European countries are in no rush to unquestioningly follow London and Washington but prefer […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — The Kremlin has demanded an apology from British Prime Minister Theresa May and her government which implicated President Vladimir Putin in the nerve agent attack on a former double agent, saying this “idiocy has gone too far” “Their theory will not be confirmed in any case because it is not possible to confirm it,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on a visit to Ankara Tuesday evening. “And the British foreign minister who […]
By Anna Smolchenko with Marina Koreneva in Saint Petersburg Agence France Presse Russia expelled diplomats from 23 countries Friday in a wave of retaliatory measures against the West in a spy row, the biggest wave of tit-for-tat expulsions in recent memory. The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement that it had summoned the heads of missions from 23 countries earlier to tell them that some of their diplomats had to leave the country. Germany […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia on Friday informed the Dutch ambassador of the expulsion of two diplomats in a tit-for-tat measure over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Britain, TASS state news agency reported. Dutch Ambassador Renee Jones-Bos told TASS state news agency: “Two of my colleagues are leaving Moscow. But we (the embassy) are staying here.” © Agence France-Presse
By Anna Malpas with Dave Clark in Washington Agence France Presse Russia on Thursday announced a mass expulsion of US diplomats and the closure of the US consulate in Saint Petersburg in retaliation to coordinated moves by Western countries to isolate Moscow in the wake of the poisoning of a former double agent in Britain. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow would expel 60 US diplomats and close Washington’s consulate in Saint Petersburg in […]
VARNA, Bulgaria (AFP) — Fourteen European Union countries announced Monday they are to expel a total of 30 Russian diplomats in a coordinated international response to the nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain. Germany, France and Poland led the way in Europe with four expulsions each, while across the Atlantic, the White House announced it was throwing out 60 alleged spies and closing the Russian consulate in Seattle. An EU source […]
by Joe Jackson Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British regulators on Friday began searching the London offices of Cambridge Analytica (CA), the scandal-hit communications firm at the heart of the Facebook data scandal, shortly after a judge approved a search warrant. Around 18 enforcement agents from the office of Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham entered the company’s London headquarters at around 8:00pm (2000 GMT) to execute the warrant. The High Court granted […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May will urge EU leaders Thursday to unite against a Russian threat that could last for “years to come”, following the nerve agent attack in Britain. At a summit in Brussels, May will say that the attempt to kill former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in the city of Salisbury — which she has blamed on Moscow — could have happened anywhere. “The challenge of Russia […]
