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Over 100 Russia diplomats sent home as standoff over spy poisoning deepens
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The US and governments across Europe sent home more than 100 suspected Russian intel- ligence officers on March 26, followed by more expulsions by Nato and several more European states in the following days.
The largest collective expulsion of Russian dip- lomats in history came in response to the nerve-
Kosovo reignites Balkan tensions with arrest and beating of Serb official
Valentina Dimitrievska in Skopje
Tensions between Kosovo and Serbia have been reignited by the arrest and expulsion of a senior Serb official. Marko Djuric, the head of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija,
agent poisoning of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK.
While Washington led the line by throwing out
60 Russian diplomats on March, Ukraine took a combative stance, joining with EU member states
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says he was beaten and “dragged along the ground like a dog” while in custody, before being expelled from Kosovo.
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