SYLVIA HUI Associated Press= LONDON (AP) — A coroner overseeing a British inquest into the 2006 poisoning death of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko said Wednesday he has asked for a new public inquiry to be held so that crucial evidence can be scrutinized. The call came after widespread concerns that the existing inquest would be effectively powerless to determine what happened to Litvinenko, a Kremlin critic who died after he was poisoned in London with radioactive polonium-210. Britain's government...
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