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Russia's Attempt To Join Probe Into Ex-Spy's Poisoning Fails

British officials and an international chemical weapons control group accuse Russia of employing a diversionary tactic to evade accountability.

Russia's attempt to join an investigation into a nerve agent used to poison a former spy failed Wednesday.

The British government had of being behind the March murder attempt which not only left Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, hospitalized but possibly exposed dozens of

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