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Britain Warns Moscow Over Poisoning Of Ex-Russian Double Agent

Sergei Skripal, a retired Russian intelligence colonel living in exile in the U.K. following his conviction in Russia on espionage charges, suddenly fell ill from an "unknown substance" on Sunday.

Britain's foreign secretary has warned that the U.K. will respond "appropriately and robustly" to Moscow if it is found to have been involved in the mysterious poisoning of an ex-Russian spy who suddenly fell ill in southern England over the weekend.

Sergei Skripal, a retired Russian intelligence colonel living in the U.K., was found collapsed on a

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