US President Donald Trump is preparing the expulsion of dozens of Russian diplomats in response to the attack on former Russian double-spy Sergei Skripal in Britain. That is what two sources around the White House have said.
Sergej Skripal, the ex-doublespion from Russia, who had been poisoned in southern England, would have asked Russian President Putin forgiveness for his betrayal in a letter. This is what a former school friend of Skripal, Vladimir Tomoshkov, told the BBC.
A Boeing 787 Dreamliner from the Australian airline Qantas flies this weekend directly from Perth in Australia to London in 17 hours and 20 minutes. It is a first for aviation, the company Qantas reported at the festive departure on Saturday evening. The device is expected to arrive in London around 6:00 am on Sunday. Qantas calls the connection with England the Kangaroo route for seventy years.
France and Germany will announce in the coming days 'coordinated and balanced' measures in response to the Russian attack with nerve gas on a former double spy in Salisbury, England. The French President Emmanuel Macron announced this at a joint press conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel after an EU summit in Brussels.
The European Union is calling its ambassador back from Moscow for consultation. The measure follows the establishment of EU heads of government on Thursday evening that Russia is most likely behind the attack with nerve gas in Salisbury on former double-spy Sergei Skripal. According to them, that is the only plausible explanation.
The attack in England with nerve gas on the former Russian double agent Sergej Skripal and his daughter Yoelia may have affected their mental capacities. It is unclear whether they will recover, said a British judge Thursday in a verdict.
British Prime Minister Theresa May, Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are discussing the attack with nerve gas in Salisbury, England on a Russian old double-spy. The 28 EU leaders will condemn the attack on their EU summit 'in the strongest possible terms' but stifle how hard Russia should be blamed.
British Prime Minister Theresa May asks European leaders to also expel Russian diplomats 'to dismantle the Kremlin network in Europe.' The British newspaper The Guardian reported Thursday that May at the European summit on Thursday and Friday warns that the Russian President Vladimir Putin poses a threat that can last for years. London has expelled 23 Russian diplomats.
The 28 EU leaders meet on Thursday and Friday in Brussels. Important topics for discussion are the American import levy on steel and the poison attack on the ex-doublespion Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England. The brexit and the euro zone are also discussed and possibly the Facebook scandal.
The Chief of Staff of the White House John Kelly is 'frustrated and severely disappointed' by the leaked message that President Donald Trump had been advised not to call his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin to congratulate him on the re-election. A spokesman said on Wednesday about the mood of Kelly.
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to cause problems wherever he can. In this way he can once again portray his country as a strong nation after the collapse of the Soviet Union, British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday.
The Russian ambassador in the Czech Republic has been asked about claims that the nerve gas that was used against a Russian double agent and his daughter in England would come from the Czech Republic. Sweden did the same thing on Monday for similar claims.
The Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls the Russian ambassador Tuesday on the carpet. The summons comes after the claim of Moscow that Sweden could be the source of the nerve gas that was used in the attack on a former Russian double spy in England.
British Secretary of State Boris Johnson said Sunday that Russia has saved the deadly nerve gas that was used to poison a Russian former double agent in England. Then, according to him, Russia has investigated how such weapons can be used in murders.
Several houses on a cliff in Hemsby in the United Kingdom have been evacuated because they are in danger of falling into the sea. The approximately ten buildings can crash down by the crumbling coast according to the police. Snow, ice and strong winds significantly accelerate erosion on the East English coast.
Sweden and the Czech Republic have reacted irritated to Russia's speculation on Saturday that the nerve poison novitsjok used in an attack on a former spy in England may come from one of these countries. This is an 'absurd accusation', said the Czech Minister of Defense Karla Slechtova. The Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström called the claim 'unacceptable and unfounded.'
A letter of application that Steve Jobs wrote about three years before he co-founded Apple, has raised over 141,000 euros on an internet auction in the US.
The police in London deal with the death of the Russian exile Nikolai Garshkov as murder and a murder investigation has begun. The Russian died from 'pressure on the neck', according to a statement from the police Friday. This may indicate strangulation.
The British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn has doubts about evidence from the government against the Kremlin about the assassination attempt in Salisbury, southern England. Corbyn does want a hard talk with Moscow about 'the horrendous violent crime.'
The British reaction to the nerve gas attack on former double spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter Yulia is not far enough. That said the widow of the 2006 Aleksandr Litvinenko poisoned in England, an ex-officer of the Russian security service FSB.
The British government wants an emergency session of the Security Council on the assassination attempt last Sunday in Salisbury, southern England, using a chemical weapon. The chemical developed in the Soviet Union is called novitsjok. London wants to inform the board about the investigation.
Russia has no interest in an attack on the former Russian double-spy Sergei Skripal in southern England. The people who vote against Russia do, according to the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov. And with that, the diplomatic conflict between London and Moscow on this issue is becoming increasingly widespread.
It is no different whether Moscow is behind the assassination attempt of the former Russian double-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. A chemist who worked in the Soviet era on the development of the drug used in England said that on Tuesday.
London refuses to give Russia the substance with which last Sunday the assassination attempt on the former double spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter Joelia was committed. This said the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov. He stressed that the Russian government had nothing to do with the attack in Salisbury in southern England.
The United States supports the British authorities to hold Russia provisionally responsible for poisoning the former Russian double spy and his daughter. That is what Minister Rex Tillerson said on Monday.
Theresa May is heading for a tough diplomatic confrontation with Russia. According to the British prime minister, it is 'most likely' that the Russian state was involved in the assassination attempt on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia living in England.
The Russian ambassador in London must explain the poison used in Southern England in an assassination attempt on a former Russian double spy and his daughter, Sergej and Joelia Skripal. This is what the British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday.
The Russian state television has accused England of being behind the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. That would give London a good excuse to boycott the World Cup, according to Dmitri Kiseljov, presenter of the Russian news program New of the Week.
The British government will react 'appropriately' if a foreign state appears to be involved in the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in England last week. That's what the British finance minister Philip Hammond said.
The British police have more than two hundred people in the picture who may be able to testify about the poisoning of the former Russian double-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. The police also scrutinizes about 240 possible evidence.
