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WORLD NEWS Saturday 19 May 2018

Poisoned ex-spy Sergei Skripal discharged from UK hospital

By JILL LAWLESS Lorna Wilkinson, director of Britain says Russia poisoned
LONDON (AP) — Former nursing at the hospital. "This the Skripals with a Soviet-
Russian spy Sergei Skripal is an important stage in his designed nerve agent
has been discharged from recovery, which will now dubbed Novichok. Mos-
a British hospital more than take place away from the cow denies the claim, and
two months after he was hospital." accused Britain of failing to
poisoned with a nerve Yulia, 33, recovered more provide any evidence and
agent and left fighting for quickly than her father and stonewalling Russian re-
his life, health officials said was discharged last month. quests for information.
Friday. The Skripals have been tak- Russian President Vladimir
Skripal, 66, and his daugh- en to an undisclosed loca- Putin said the news of Skri-
ter Yulia were found uncon- tion for their safety. pal's recovery gave him joy,
scious in the English city of In this Feb. 27, 2018 file grab taken from CCTV video provided Sergei Skripal is a former but denounced the British
Salisbury on March 4, and by ITN, former spy Sergei Skripal shops at a store in Salisbury, Russian intelligence officer explanation for his illness.
spent weeks in critical con- England. who was convicted of spy- “If a military-grade agent
dition. Associated Press ing for Britain before com- had been used as our Brit-
Britain has accused Russia ing to the U.K. as part of a ish colleagues claimed, the
of poisoning the pair with a the West, including the ex- attack — the Skripals and a 2010 prisoner swap. He had man would have died on
military-grade nerve agent, pulsion of hundreds of dip- police officer who came to been living quietly in the the spot,” Putin said Friday
a claim Moscow denies. lomats from both sides. their assistance — had now cathedral city of Salisbury, after talks with German
The poisoning has sparked Salisbury District Hospital been released. 90 miles (145 kilometers) Chancellor Angela Merkel
a Cold War-style diplomat- said Friday that all three "We have been able to dis- southwest of London, when in the southern Russian city
ic crisis between Russia and people hospitalized in the charge Sergei Skripal," said he was struck down. of Sochi.q

Buses with migrants heading toward Bosnia camp

Associated Press government in Sarajevo, requests, mostly by mem-
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herze- Bosnia includes a Muslim- bers of Syria's Yazidi minori-
govina (AP) — The Latest Croat and a Serb entity, ty, may have been wrongly
on migrants in Europe. as well as a number of approved between 2013
Buses with about 270 mi- separately-governed re- and 2016. The former head
grants are on their way to gions and districts. Ethnic of the Bremen branch of-
an asylum center in south- tensions are still simmering fice is being investigated
western Bosnia following a more than two decades on suspicion of corruption.
blockade reflecting confu- after the 1992-95 war. Cordt says her authority
sion in the Balkan country Germany's asylum author- so far has reviewed some
struggling with the influx. ity says it will re-examine 4,400 decisions by various
The buses had left Sarajevo, some 18,000 cases handled branches and found that
the Bosnian capital, early by one of its regional offic- cases handled by Bremen
Friday toward the camp es amid a scandal over the were by far the most prob-
in Salakovac, near Mostar, improper granting of asy- lematic.
but regional authorities had lum requests. A convoy of buses with
banned entry and stopped Jutta Cordt, the head of about 270 migrants, includ- A police officer stands guard by a bus with migrants on board
during the evacuation of a makeshift camp in a park across
the convoy. Germany's Federal Office ing children, has been stuck from the City Hall, in Sarajevo, Friday May 18, 2018.
Migrants previously had for Migration, said Friday in central Bosnia, reflecting Associated Press
camped for weeks in an im- that the office will review all the chaotic situation in the
provised tent settlement in cases since 2000 in which war-scarred Balkan country ward a center for asylum- turned into the Sarajevo dis-
a park in central Sarajevo. people were granted asy- as it struggles to cope with seekers near the southwest- trict and remain blocked.
Authorities dismantled the lum by its branch in Bre- the influx. ern town of Mostar, but the Local media say there are
site to move the migrants men, the country's smallest Authorities were transport- regional authorities there 18 children among the mi-
to a proper camp. state. In April, prosecutors ing migrants Friday from didn't allow them in. grants, who are frightened
In addition to the central said at least 1,200 asylum Sarajevo, the capital, to- The buses then have re- and confused.q