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Russia has called for the UN Security Council to meet later to discuss the spy poisoning case in Salisbury which saw the use of a nerve agent. Moscow has lost an attempt to stage a joint investigation with the UK into the poisoning at a meeting of the world's chemical weapons watchdog, the OPCW on Wednesday.
UK authorities say they believe Russia was behind the attack on former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in early March, charges Moscow has vehemently denied.
The OPCW is conducting its own tests on the agent used in the attack. Russia's Ambassador to the OPCW Alexander Shulgin says Moscow has no confidence that inquiry will be impartial.
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A group of British lawmakers say North Korea will almost certainly have the ability to reach the UK with an intercontinental ballistic missile within six to eighteen months.
A House of Commons Defense Select Committee report says such a strike seemed highly unlikely but warned cyber attacks could target UK infrastructure. From London, Catherine Drew reports.
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The United States government believes a type of spying device that can track mobile phones and intercept calls and messages are being used unlawfully in Washington D.C., according to the Associated Press news agency.
But it does not know who's operating these devices, commonly known as Stingrays.
Here's US correspondent Liling Tan with the details.
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British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been accused of misleading the public after wrongly claiming in a television interview that experts from the military facility at Porton Down had identified the source of the nerve agent that poisoned a former Russia spy and his daughter as coming from Russia.
The row comes after the head of Porton Down said in an interview that the laboratory could not definitively say that the nerve agent had come from Russia, prompting Moscow to call an emergency meeting of the world's chemical weapons watchdog, the OPCW. From London, Catherine Drew reports.
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The husband of Queen Elizabeth the Second, the Duke of Edinburgh, is due to undergo planned surgery today for problems he's been having with his hip.
From London, Marnie Gill reports.
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Rwanda has not opposed a decision by the United States to suspend duty-free status for Rwandan apparel products under the African Growth and Opportunity Act.
The suspension follows a stern decision by Rwanda to stop importing used clothes .
Coletta Wanjohi reports from Addis Ababa: