UK, allies point finger at Putin's Russia in ex-spy poisoning

Police, with the assistance of Britain's armed forces and its military research laboratory at Porton Down, have been investigating the dramatic events for over a week [Daniel Leal, AFP]

Britain will hold new emergency talks Tuesday into the brazen nerve agent poisoning of a Russian former double agent on its soil, after the US and NATO backed London in implicating Moscow in the assassination attempt.

As diplomatic tensions soar, Russia has denied accusations of its involvement in the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter in southwest England on March 4.