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A woman who lived a short distance from where Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent has died. Prime Minister Theresa May is "appalled and shocked" by the death:
Police have launched a murder inquiry after a woman exposed to nerve agent Novichok in Wiltshire died. Dawn Sturgess, 44, died in hospital on Sunday evening after falling critically ill on 30 June. Charlie Rowley, 45, who was also exposed to the nerve agent in Amesbury, remains critically ill in hospital.
[...] Officers are still trying to work out how Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley were exposed to the nerve agent although tests have confirmed they touched a contaminated item with their hands.
[...] Mrs May sent her "thoughts and condolences" and said officials are "working urgently to establish the facts". She said: "The government is committed to providing full support to the local community as it deals with this tragedy." British diplomat Julian King, the European Commissioner responsible for the EU's security union, said: "Those behind this are murderers."
[...] The working hypothesis is that the pair became contaminated after touching a poison container left over from the March attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal. The death of Dawn Sturgess, a British citizen on British soil, now changes the investigation to a murder inquiry, with all the diplomatic and security ramifications that carries. Britain has been blaming Moscow for the original attack in March, saying there is no plausible alternative to the Kremlin having ordered the assassination attempt. Russia has denied any involvement, suggesting instead this was the action of a weak British government looking to undermine the success of the current World Cup being hosted by Russia.
Here's something from the other side.
Previously: Former Russian Spy Exposed to "Unknown Substance" in Salisbury, England
Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt
UK Gives Russia Until Midnight to Explain Use of Novichok Nerve Agent
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Monday July 09 2018, @07:27PM (3 children)
he appears to be the first president in a long time who has not made money off of the traditional military industrial complex.
All previous presidents divested themselves from all investments to prevent that exact conflict of interests. Trump is the first one to NOT do so.
Your post is the exact opposite of reality.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Sulla on Monday July 09 2018, @07:52PM (1 child)
So Trump didn't divest from investments that would benefit from Peace? Sounds good to me!
Cheney's divestment from Halliburton sure helped us avoid that fiasco. If Bush had not divested from oil we might have gone to war in Iraq. If Hillary stopped kept taking speaking fees and continued their foundations foreign donations we might have sold uranium to our Russian enemies. If Biden's son hadn't quit his job at the top Ukrainian oil firm we might have had increasing border conflict between Nato and Russia. If the Bush and Clinton families hadn't divested from their interests in Saudi oil we might have avoided our involvement in Syria to get a pipeline build by our terms through Syria.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10 2018, @03:40PM
So we need more conflicts of interest. Huh? What a good idea!
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday July 11 2018, @12:59PM
In June 2016, I sold all my stocks. Because I felt I was very much going to be winning. And I would have a tremendous, tremendous conflict of interest owning all of these different companies. I don't think for me to be owning stocks when I'm making deals for this country that maybe will affect one company positively and one company negatively -- I just felt it was a conflict.