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www.chinaview.cn 2006-12-04 13:49:50
BEIJING, Dec. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- A top British official said Sunday an inquiry into the death of a poisoned ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, who died in London after he was exposed to a rare radioactive element, had expanded overseas.

"The police will follow wherever this investigation leads; inside or outside Britain," Home Secretary John Reid told Sky News. "Over the next few days ... all of these things, I think, will widen out a little from the circle just being here in Britain."

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Created: 04.12.2006 14:48 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 15:35 MSK
MosNews
Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian intelligence agent poisoned in London, requested before his death that he be buried according to Muslim tradition, his father said in an interview for the Kommersant daily newspaper published Monday. The former agent and critic of the Kremlin expressed the wish as he lay dying in his father's arms, Valter Litvinenko said.

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Created: 04.12.2006 19:22 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 20:11 MSK, 1 hour 15 minutes ago
MosNews
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the Litvinenko affair was damaging ties with Britain. On the same day British detectives headed for Moscow as part of their investigation into the mysterious death of the former security agent in London, the Reuters news agency reports.

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Created: 04.12.2006 17:45 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 19:00 MSK, 2 hours 26 minutes ago
MosNews
Former Russian intelligence officer, Mikhail Trepashkin, now serving a four-year sentence in an Urals prison for divulging state secrets, said he was willing to testify in the Alexander Litvinenko lethal poisoning case, his lawyer announced Monday, the Interfax news agency reports.

In a letter released last Friday Trepashkin alleged that the FSB Russian state security service had created a hit squad to kill Litvinenko and other enemies of the Kremlin.

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