The UK says it is encouraged by the level of international solidarity after Theresa May asserted it was "highly likely" that Russia was behind the attempted murder of the former spy and his daughter. Russia's foreign minister says the claim is "nonsense".

Police extend their investigation and evidence gathering quickens into double poisoning.

Raids in Eastern Slovakia led to seven people being detained, including an Italian businessman allegedly involved with the Calabrian mafia, who has links to at least two officials close to Prime Minister Robert Fico.

Dramatic claim made on floor of Turkish National Assembly, investigation promised.

Effort was made to gather evidence of Communist beliefs and sexual impropriety to discredit Civil Rights leader.

Amina Okuyeva, the wife of Chechen man accused of plotting to kill President Vladimir Putin, has been shot dead in the Ukraine.

Worldwide interest grows ahead of the US National Archive's release of the final unpublished documents relating to the John F. Kennedy assassination.

Thousands hold a rally to honour a Maltese journalist who died in a car bombing last week but few believe her murder will be solved

Conspiracy theories continue to abound over the fatal shooting of President Kennedy in November 1963

EU Commission says it's 'horrified' by the killing of a Maltese journalist, and trusts justice will be brought for her.

Senior Indian Gauri Lankesh was gunned down on Tuesday evening as she returned to her home in Bangalore, capital of the state of Karnataka.

Russian court convicts five Chechens in Boris Nemtsov murder trial.

The founder of an Iranian satellite TV station, GEM TV, has been shot dead in Istanbul.

Mashal Khan was beaten to death after being accused of blasphemy. But people who knew him say he openly professed devotion to Islam.

The body of the murdered brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Pyongyang from Malaysia.

Malaysia has agreed to let the body of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to be flown to Pyongyang.

Denis Voronenkov, a key witness in a treason case against former leader Viktor Yanukovich was shot dead outside a hotel in Kyiv.

Interpol has issued a “red notice”, the closest instrument to an international arrest warrant, for four North Koreans wanted over last month’s murder of Kim Jong…