SYDNEY: Australia joined the United States and other British allies in expelling two Russian diplomats Tuesday in response to a nerve agent attack on a double agent in England. Army officers remove the bench, where Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, Britain, March 23, 2018. Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, who lived in Salisbury and his daughter Yulia were found suffering from extreme exposure to a rare nerve agent in Salisbury on March 4. Canada, Ukraine, Albania and most European Union states matched the move with smaller-scale expulsions, after Britain urged allies to respond to the poisoning. Russia has denied it was behind the attempted assassination, which left Skripal and his daughter gravely ill in perhaps the first nerve agent attack in Europe since World War II.--AFP

Source: New Strait Times March 26, 2018 22:52 UTC