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Putin critic in coma after suspected poisoning; Steve Bannon arrested; Trump administration calls for Iran sanctions

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is fighting for his life in a Siberian hospital after what his spokeswoman is calling a poisoning. And, former White House adviser Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday and charged with fraud by federal prosecutors. Also, the Trump administration on Thursday will formally ask the United Nations Security Council to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran.

Vladimir Putin walks between two rows of people clapping their hands and taking photos with their cell phones

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov are shown walking past a marble floor depicting a bat at the new GRU military intelligence headquarters building in Russia.

Britain says Russian military intelligence behind host of global cyber attacks

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A police officer is shown standing to the left of the photograph, wearing a fluorescent jacket guards a cordoned off area where former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found poisoned.

Russia reels, denounces new US sanctions as illegal, unfriendly

British Ambassador to Russia, Laurie Bristow, is seen walking out of the Russian foreign ministry building in Moscow.

Russia summons Western diplomats to set out retaliatory steps in spy rift

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In response to toxin attack, Britain expels Russian diplomats

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PM Theresa May said Britain would also introduce new measures to strengthen defenses against hostile state activities, freeze Russian state assets wherever there was evidence of a threat and downgrade its attendance at the soccer World Cup in Russia this summer.

Officials working where Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found in Salisbury, Britain.

British Prime Minister Theresa May says it’s ‘highly likely’ Russia was behind nerve attack on spy

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British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday it was “highly likely” that Moscow was responsible for the poisoning in England of Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter using a military-grade nerve agent.

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