Lawyer: Ex-KGB Agent’s Poisoning Jeopardized London

An unknown number of Londoners might have been put at risk by the 2006 poisoning of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with a radioactive isotope, which amounted to "a nuclear attack on the streets" of the British capital, an inquiry heard on Thursday. Kremlin critic Litvinenko died weeks after drinking green tea laced with polonium-210 at London's plush Millennium hotel. From his deathbed, the 43-year-old accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering his killing...

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