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# novichok - Thursday 15 August, 2019
Traces of nerve agent Novichok found in second Salisbury police officer's blood
The attempted assassination the Skripals was done using Novichok in March 2018.
# novichok - Friday 1 March, 2019
Home of Sergei Skripal declared safe one year after novichok poisoning
The final site of decontamination in Salisbury, the Skripal home, is safe following extensive cleaning.
# novichok - Saturday 16 February, 2019
Parents of Novichok victim query why UK settled ex-spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury
Dawn Sturgess died after coming into contact with a nerve agent allegedly used in last year’s poisoning of Skripal and his daughter.
# novichok - Thursday 22 November, 2018
Police release CCTV of Russian men involved in fatal nerve agent attack
Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found poisoned in the English city of Salisbury in early March.
# novichok - Wednesday 3 October, 2018
Putin labels poisoned former spy Sergei Skripal a 'traitor' and a 'scumbag'
The Russian President was visibly angry when he was speaking about Skripal today in Moscow.
# novichok - Wednesday 26 September, 2018
Suspect in British Novichok poisoning is actually a Russian colonel and former spy
British investigative team Bellingcat claims to have discovered that ‘Ruslan Boshirov’ is in fact FRU colonel Anatoly Chepiga.
# novichok - Thursday 13 September, 2018
Russian suspects in Salisbury poisoning say they were in UK as tourists
The two men accused denied having anything to do with the murder attempt in an interview with Russian media.
# novichok - Wednesday 12 September, 2018
Putin says the two men named as suspects in Salisbury poisoning are 'civilians, not criminals'
Putin said the two men do not work for the military and called on them to come forward.
# novichok - Friday 7 September, 2018
Russians accused of carrying out Salisbury attack reportedly posed as businessmen to obtain visas
British authorities have issued arrest warrants for two suspected members of Russian military intelligence.
Russia denies Putin ordered Novichok poisoning as UK points finger at Kremlin
British Security Minister Ben Wallace said the attack in Salisbury was “more Johnny English than James Bond”.
# novichok - Wednesday 5 September, 2018
Police release images of Russian men and fake perfume bottle involved in fatal nerve agent attack
Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found poisoned in the English city of Salisbury in early March.
# novichok - Wednesday 8 August, 2018
US hits Russia with sanctions over nerve agent attack in England
A former Russian spy and his daughter were exposed to Novichok in March.
# novichok - Tuesday 7 August, 2018
Britain asks world's chemical warfare watchdog to extend Novichok probe
Dawn Sturgess died after she handled what she thought was a bottle of perfume, given to her by her partner Charlie Rowley.
# novichok - Sunday 29 July, 2018
Precautions in place to protect mourners at funeral of nerve agent victim
Dawn Sturgess was exposed to Novichok in England.
# novichok - Thursday 19 July, 2018
'Wild speculation': Minister denies suspects behind attack on former spy have been identified
The suspects are believed to be Russian.
# novichok - Saturday 14 July, 2018
'Painstaking and vital work' - Police investigating link between Novichok death and Skripal poisoning
They say that 400 items in total have been collected.
# novichok - Friday 13 July, 2018
Nerve agent Novichok that killed UK woman traced to bottle in her house
44-year-old Dawn Sturgess died last Sunday after being hospitalised following contact with the lethal nerve agent Novichok.
# novichok - Wednesday 11 July, 2018
Man exposed to Novichok nerve agent in UK is no longer critical, hospital says
Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, who has since died, fell ill last weekend in Amesbury, near the town of Salisbury.
# novichok - Tuesday 10 July, 2018
British man left critically ill after being exposed to Soviet-era nerve agent regains consciousness
The man’s partner Dawn Sturgess, 44, died on Sunday.
# novichok - Monday 9 July, 2018
Novichok poisoning: Police search for container they believe couple 'must have handled'
Dawn Sturgess and a man named locally as Charlie Rowley (45) fell ill last weekend in Amesbury, near the town of Salisbury.
# novichok - Thursday 5 July, 2018
Public in Salisbury warned not to pick up unknown objects after couple exposed to nerve agent
Police are investigating if the latest nerve agent poisoning is linked to the last Salisbury incident.
# novichok - Wednesday 11 April, 2018
Daughter of ex-Russian spy poisoned by nerve agent refuses consular assistance from Russian embassy
Skripal was discharged from hospital on Monday, more than a month after the 4 March nerve agent attack.
# novichok - Tuesday 3 April, 2018
UK scientists unable to prove nerve agent was Russian-made
Analysts had identified it as military-grade Novichok, but they had not proved it was made in Russia.
# novichok - Tuesday 13 March, 2018
Explainer: What we know about Russia's Novichok nerve agents
The agent is an ultra-fine powder, made up of several components that would have been mixed safely by the assassin.
Moscow calls Britain's spy attack accusations a 'dirty attempt to discredit Russia'
The nerve agent Novichok is believed to have been used.
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THERE HAS BEEN a mixed reaction to the government’s decision to extend paid parental leave by three weeks due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The extension applies to both mothers and fathers but there has also been calls this morning for single parent families to benefit.
Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon has said that children in single parent families should also be considered and benefit from the same amount of leave.
Two-parent families can now avail of a combined 10 weeks leave and Gannon says that the children of single-parents should also benefit from the same amount of time with a parent.
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