Putin ‘probably approved’ Litvinenko poisoning, British inquiry says

A high-profile British inquiry into the poisoning of Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former KGB officer turned critic of the Kremlin, concluded in a report released Thursday that his murder “was probably approved” by President Vladimir Putin of Russia and the head of the country’s spy service. The finding by Robert Owen, a retired High Court judge, in a 328-page report, represented by far the most damning official link between Litvinenko’s death on November 23, 2006, and the highest levels of the Kr...