British counter-terrorism police say a former Russian double agent, whom Russian President Vladimir Putin had vowed to kill, was poisoned by a nerve agent. The comments came after the British government’s high-level emergency committee known as COBRA was updated Wednesday on a probe into the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his 33-year-old daughter. “This is […]
WASHINGTON / BEIJING—Global stock markets crashed, oil prices fell, and the value of the British currency plunged to a three-decade low after the unprecedented vote for the UK to leave the European Union. Worried investors sought safe havens for their money, and gold prices rose. European markets were down sharply and futures contracts pointed to […]
Police investigators in Jo Cox’s county of Yorkshire in northern England are refusing to confirm or deny that the suspected assassin of the spirited 41-year-old lawmaker may have been motivated by far-right nationalist beliefs. Several eye witnesses to the attack by 52-year-old Thomas Mair, a local man, say he shouted “Britain First” as he shot […]