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    U.K. Vows to Respond If Russian Ex-Spy’s Suspected Poisoning Linked to Moscow

    U.K. counterterrorism police aiding probe into sudden strickening of man and his daughter at mall

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    U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Tuesday pledged to consider fresh sanctions on Russia if police conclude that Moscow was responsible for the suspected poisoning of a former Russian intelligence officer here over the weekend.

    Sergei Skripal, a 66-year-old former colonel in Russia’s military intelligence, and his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia, remained in critical condition in a hospital Tuesday after being found unconscious on a bench outside a shopping mall in this city in southwestern England on Sunday afternoon. Police...