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Litvinenko suspect blames M16 for death
MOSCOW - Andrei Lugovoy, charged by Britain with murdering former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, said he suspected MI6, the mafia and Boris Berezovsky, a multi-millionaire Kremlin critic who fled Russia for London, could have been involved in the spy's murder.
Russia's Federal Security Service said in a statement it would investigate Lugovoy's statements.
"This is a criminal matter and is not an issue about intelligence," a British Foreign Office spokesman said.
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UK embassy warns of possible further kidnappings in Iraq
The British embassy in Baghdad issued today a travel advisory warning British nationals, including security contractors, that "further kidnaps may be planned".
A special military unit has been set up to help hunt for the Britons and Iraqi police believes the five abducted Britons are still in Baghdad.
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Bush wants global meeting on climate change
WASHINGTON - US President George W. Bush, under fire for resisting tough action on global warming, today called on 15 influential countries to agree by the end of 2008 on a long-term goal to cut emissions.
Critics dismissed the strategy as a diversion and a delaying tactic but some European leaders and a UN official expressed hope that it might be a first step to more action.
It was the strongest statement yet from the United States about curbing climate-warming emissions after the international first phase of the Kyoto Protocol ends in 2012.
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