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Moscow accuses UK of bluffing
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Moscow accuses UK of bluffing

    says he wants an inquiry into the Salisbury nerve agent attack, citing a Sky News interview with the boss of Porton Down. The Russian president also says Moscow would demand to be part of such an investigation. Sergei Skripal speaks to his lawyer from behind bars seen on a screen of a monitor outside a courtroom in Moscow. Russia has called an extraordinary meeting of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in the Hague today where it will air its complaints about the allegations made against it. Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down, told Sky News they had not been able to establish where the novichok nerve agent used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal was made. The Ministry...