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Alexander Litvinenko's death - like the substance that killed him - retains a toxic power. Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), its top public prosecution office, announced this morning that it would seek the extradition of businessman and former KGB officer Andrei Lugovoi from Moscow to face charges in London for the Nov. 1 murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Lugovoi is accused of poisoning Litvinenko, a former KGB operative who became a prominent dissident opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the radioactive metalloid polonium 210. The CPS's move, although welcomed by Litvinenko's widow, Marina, and officially backed...
...serves up a surprise extradition, there is little prospect of a trial in London to test the evidence that led British prosecutors to their move. Ninety percent of the world's polonium 210 comes from a single facility in Russia. Investigators found traces of polonium 210 not only in Britain but also in Hamburg, at locations visited by Lugovoi's associate Dmitri Kovtun, the day before Kovtun and Lugovoi attended a meeting with Litvinenko at London's Millennium Hotel. Kovtun has not been charged...
Opponents complain that Blair’s partnership with Bush left Britain empty-handed. At the Conservative conference last October, Opposition leader David Cameron asserted, "We must be steadfast, not slavish, in how we approach the special relationship [with...
...critics are unduly cynical, missing that it was Blair’s belief that drove his policy, not vice versa—he supported the mission in Iraq not to please President Bush, but to confront the spread of terrorism. He has long advocated a greater role for Britain in international affairs: He sent British troops to Kosovo to stop ethnic genocide, he traveled to Sierra Leone to help end its civil war, and he continues to support NATO’s mission in Afghanistan to stamp out the Taliban...
...They might have gone to Canada, France or Britain, three other countries with generous government health plans. Moore has fun showing the cashier's window at a London hospital, where patients don't pay anything, they get money for the trip back home. Any prescription under the U.K. National Health plan, he suggests, costs only about $12. And in France, the government will pay not only for health costs but for nannies. They'll even cook for you, and do your laundry. If Sicko doesn't win over the audience at tonight's black-tie world premiere, Moore's francophilia...