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Police in Wiltshire, where ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a nerve agent in March, took the rare step of declaring a major incident after a man and a woman were found unconscious on Saturday in Amesbury. (Photo: AP)

2 found in critical condition near Russian spy poisoning site in UK

The pair, both in their 40s, were initially believed to have taken heroin or crack cocaine from a contaminated batch of...

4 July 2018 6:13 PM IST

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. The German government says specialist labs in France and Sweden have confirmed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. (AP File)

Germany says French, Swedish labs confirm Navalny's Novichok poisoning

The poisoning has brought tensions between Russia and Germany to new heights, fuelling calls for the Nord Stream 2...

14 Sept 2020 3:18 PM IST

File photo of Kim Jong-Uns brother Kim Jong-Nam (Photo: AFP)

Nerve agent left Kim Jong Nam paralysed, killed him within 20 mins

Malaysia earlier revealed that Kim Jong Nam was killed with the VX nerve agent, which is listed by the UN as a weapon of...

26 Feb 2017 4:23 PM IST